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Author Carlin, Neil, author.

Title The Beaker phenomenon? : understanding the character and context of social practices in Ireland 2500-2000 BC / Neil Carlin.

Publication Info. Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2018]

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Contents Intro; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1; Introduction: querying the Beaker Phenomenon?; 1.1 Understanding the Beaker complex?; 1.2 'Similar but different'?; 1.3 Local worlds: people, places and things; 1.4 Structure, scope and methodology: a road map; 2; New versions of old stories; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Beaker 'culture' and cultural-historical approaches; 2.3 Early 1900s: Beaker-free Ireland says No to Romans; 2.4 The 1930s: the first Irish Beaker boom; 2.5 The 1940s and 50s: the arrival of Beaker invaders; 2.6 The 1960s and 70s: new beginnings.
2.7 The 1980s and 1990s: Irish Beaker elites -- the 'Lunula lords'2.8 The 2000s: Beaker excavation boom -- data vs knowledge; 2.9 Shifting chronologies: the legacy of Lough Gur and Newgrange; 2.10 Fragmentary pasts: non-integrated typologies; 2.11 Problematising prestige and recent developments; 2.12 Post-colonial Beaker-rich Ireland; 3; A settled past; 3.1 Beaker pottery in Ireland; 3.1.1 The distribution of Beaker pottery; 3.1.2 A context for Beakers; 3.2 Infamous Beaker 'settlements'; 3.2.1 Lough Gur; 3.2.2 Newgrange; 3.2.3 Knowth; 3.2.4 Monknewtown; 3.3 Settling some issues?
3.4 Dwelling on the evidence?4; Remembering everyday life; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Beaker-associated pits; 4.3 Spreads and middens; 4.4 Fulachtaí fia; 4.5 Connecting spreads and pits; 4.6 Ideologically significant depositions; 4.7 Beaker settlement in Ireland in its wider context; 5; Fragments of the Dead?; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Beaker deposition in wedge tombs; 5.3 Beaker deposition in court tombs; 5.4 Beaker deposition in passage tombs; 5.5 Beaker deposition in portal tombs; 5.6 Beaker deposition in cists; 5.7 Beaker deposition in ring-ditches and ring-barrows.
5.8 Beaker deposition in pit graves5.9 Understanding deposition in mortuary and megalithic contexts; 5.10 Wedge tombs and cists as Beaker burials?; 5.11 A wider European context?; 6; Commemorations of Ceremonies Past?; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Beaker deposition in timber circles; 6.3 Beaker deposition at timber circles; 6.4 Beaker deposition in earthen enclosures; 6.5 Understanding Beaker ceremonial deposition; 7; Transformational acts in transitional spaces; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Beaker-related objects in bogs, rivers and lakes; 7.3 Beaker-related objects in dryland 'natural places'
7.4 Identifying depositional patterns and practices7.5 Beaker-related objects in 'natural places' in Europe?; 7.6 Understanding deposition in boglands in Ireland; 8; A time for Beakers?; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Methodology and date selection criteria; 8.3 The dating of the Irish Beaker phenomenon; 8.4 Dating depositional practices; 8.5 Comparing Ireland to Britain?; 9; Everything in its right place?; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Beaker Pottery; 9.3 Polypod bowls; 9.4 V-perforated buttons; 9.5 Wrist-bracers; 9.6 Copper Daggers; 9.7 Sun-discs; 9.8 Lunulae; 9.9 Gold bands and basket-ornaments.
Summary During the mid-third millennium BC, people across Europe started using an international suite of novel material culture including early metalwork and distinctive ceramics known as Beakers. The nature and social significance of this phenomenon, as well as the reasons for its rapid and widespread transmission have been much debated. The adoption of these new ideas and objects in Ireland, Europe's westernmost island, provides a highly suitable case study in which to investigate these issues. While many Beaker-related stone and metal artefacts were previously known from Ireland, a decade of intens.
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Subject Beaker cultures -- Ireland.
Beaker cultures.
Ireland.
Ireland -- History -- To 1172.
History.
Chronological Term To 1172
Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Carlin, Neil. Beaker phenomenon?. Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2018] 9789088904646 9088904642 (OCoLC)986865323
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