I. A G Shepherd and G. J Barclay, eds., (2004). Scotland in Ancient Europe. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Title:

Scotland in Ancient Europe

Subtitle:

the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Scotland in their European context

Number of Pages:

342

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Publication Type:

Monograph Chapter

Editor:

Ian A G Shepherd
Gordon J Barclay

Publisher:

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Year of Publication:

2004

ISBN:

0903903318

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biab_online

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Created Date:

17 Feb 2011

Chapter Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End	Abstract
Stuart Piggott, Ancient Europe and the prehistory of Northern Britain	Richard Bradley	2 - 11	Overview of Piggott's career, addressing various criticisms that have been made, and making a brief comparison with Gordon Childe.
Beyond Barbarian Europe; Stuart Piggott 1910-96: an appreciation	Ian Ralston Vincent V S Megaw	13 - 27	Overview of Piggott's career and personal life, quoting extensively from his poetry.
'... Scotland cannot have been an inviting country for agricultural settlement'; a history of the Neolithic of Scotland	Gordon J Barclay	31 - 44	Presents a brief history of how broader narratives of the Neolithic in Scotland developed during the 20th century, and considers radical change since the 1970s.
The construction of narratives for Neolithic Scotland	David V Clarke	45 - 54	Argues that the narratives used to describe Neolithic Scotland are all invented elsewhere, often in England, and that Scotland has generally been treated in an overly-homogeneous fashion in these narratives. Uses various case-studies to illustrate the issues arising from this.
People, environmental impacts, and the changing landscapes of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times	Kevin J Edwards	55 - 69	Discusses landscape change, both natural and anthropogenic, during the period.
Continuity, crisis and climate change in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods of north-west Europe	Richard Tipping Eileen Tisdall	71 - 81	Considers the impact of climate change as a stress on Neolithic and Bronze Age communities, reviewing the evidence for intensifying climatic variability and extremes during this period and suggesting that socio-economic transformations were influenced by these stresses.
The Early Neolithic in Britain; new insights from biomolecular archaeology	Michael P Richards	83 - 90	Overview of the contributions made my DNA analysis, stable isotope analysis, and pottery residue analysis.
The start of the Neolithic in Scotland	Graeme Warren	91 - 102	Examines shifts in material culture and in the definition of place through subsistence practice and architecture to discuss what 'the start of the Neolithic in Scotland' was.
The implications of Irish Neolithic houses	Eoin Grogan	103 - 114	Overview of the evidence, discussing occupation capacity, settlement complexes, house form, chronology, and the possible connection between houses and tombs.
Settlement in north-west Europe; an overview	Magdalena S Midgley	115 - 124	Overview of settlement during the later sixth and fifth millennia BC.
Absolute chronology	Patrick J Ashmore	125 - 136	Presents a selection of chronological patterns relevant to the fourth and third millennia BC in Scotland, provided from radiocarbon dates.
Context not circumstance; a distant view of Scottish monuments in Europe	Ian A Kinnes	139 - 142	Looks at Scottish monuments within their European context.
Ruins in the landscape; modern monuments	Kenneth Brophy	143 - 154	Discusses the relationship between monuments and landscape from the perspective of the twenty-first century.
Visibility and invisibility; some thoughts on Neolithic and Bronze Age sites	Alex M Gibson	155 - 169	Discusses the possible meanings of the high levels of visibility of many Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments within the landscape. Briefly discusses the later visibility/invisibility of these sites and the effects this has had on our conceptions of this period of history.
The ritual universe	Julian Thomas	171 - 178	Attempts to define ritual, then goes on to discuss issues of ritual and identity in Neolithic Scotland.
Early Bronze Age burial practices in Scotland and beyond; differences and similarities	Joanna Brück	179 - 188	Assesses the direction that research on Scottish Early Bronze Age funerary rites has taken in recent years, and compares and contrasts these briefly with contemporary burial practices in neighbouring areas of north-west Europe.
Neolithic stone axe quarries and production sites in Scotland and Ireland	Gabriel Cooney	191 - 203	Focusses on the places where axeheads (and other objects) were produced, noting the problems with the anachronistic term 'axe factories', and discussing these sites as important places in their own right, as well as sites of production of important objects.
The earliest Scottish metalwork since Coles	Brendan O C O'Connor	205 - 216	Overview of early copper and gold artefacts found in Scotland.
A note on the history of the gold ornament from 'Dehomet'	C Stephen Briggs	214 - 216
Migdale-Marnoch; sunburst of Scottish metallurgy	Stuart P Needham	217 - 245	Discusses the Migdale-Marnoch tradition of bronze-working, reviewing the existing literature, then discussing the various categories of artefact (flat axes, flat riveted daggers, halberds, bracelets, and stone casting moulds). The cultural background of the tradition is discussed, as are the possible ideological underpinnings of the use of tin.
Special places for special axes? Early Bronze Age metalwork from Scotland in its landscape setting	Trevor G Cowie	247 - 261	Reviews some of the ways in which an engagement with the context of Bronze Age metalwork can be developed, in the light of non-funerary finds of bronze metalwork from Scotland.
'...bead which have given rise to so much dogmatism, controversy and rash speculation'; faience in Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland	Alison Sheridan Andrew J Shortland	263 - 279	Summarises the results of a current National Museums of Scotland-lead collaborative project on Early Bonze Age faience jewellery in Britain, Ireland and adjacent areas of mainland north-west Europe, attempting to demonstrate that the use of this material in Scotland can only be understood by examining the social and economic dynamics of a much larger area. Also attempts to correct the misconception that faience was introduced to Britain around 1400BC by 18th-Dynasty Egyptian or Mycenaean traders.
Summary and conclusion	Roger J Mercer	283 - 293
The bronze doors of No 9 Millbank, London, with a note on the architect and sculptor associated with Imperial Chemical Industries House and their contribution to the heritage	Roger J Mercer	295 - 304	Discusses the doors in their architectural and historical context.
A bibliography of Stuart Piggott's later publications		305 - 309
Scotland in Ancient Europe; the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Scotland in ...			Presents papers from a 2003 conference dedicated to the memory of Stuart Piggott (1910-1996). PP-B