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Title Decoding neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean island ritual / edited by George Nash & Andrew Townsend.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, [2016]

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Dedication: Andrew Townsend; Introduction: George Nash & Andrew Townsend; 1. Collective spaces and material expressions: ritual practice and island identities in Neolithic Gotland; 2. Monuments from the doorstep: exploring the temporal, spatial and social relationship between chambered cairns and settlements during the Orcadian Neolithic; 3. An island archaeology of Neolithic Ynys Môn (Anglesey); 4. Uniformity and uniqueness: the extraordinary Scillonian entrance graves
5. Ritual competition in the Final Neolithic of the Channel Islands6. Establishing a diverse architecture: contextualising the Delancey Park gallery grave, north-east Guernsey; 7. Re-viewing the megaliths of northern Guernsey; 8. Defying expectations: Neolithic life in the Isles of Scilly; 9. Rite to memory: Neolithic depositional histories of an Adriatic cave; 10. Moving worlds: memory, mobility and mortality in the aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus; 11. Ritual and religion in Neolithic Crete?
12. Ancestors in the rock: a new evaluation of the development and utilisation of rock-cut tombs in Copper Age Sicily (4000-3000 cal BC)13. Journeys through the underworld in Late Neolithic Malta; 14. Searching beyond the artefact for ritual practices: evidence for ritual surrounding the unclothed human body on prehistoric Malta during the temple period; 15. The Neolithic in La Balagne, Corsica: an evaluation using palynological, geoarchaeological and landscape archaeological data
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Subject Neolithic period -- Europe.
Neolithic period.
Europe.
Prehistoric peoples -- Europe -- Rites and ceremonies.
Prehistoric peoples.
Rites and ceremonies.
Island archaeology -- Europe.
Island archaeology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Nash, George, editor of compilation.
Other Form: Print version: Decoding neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean island ritual Philadelphia : Oxford Books, [2016] 9781785700507 (DLC) 2015041253
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