| Title: |
Broch building in northern Scotland: the context of innovation
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| Issue: |
World Archaeol 21 |
| Series: |
World Archaeology
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| Volume: |
21
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| Page Start/End: |
435 - 445 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
Re-examines the view that brochs of the Atlantic Scottish Iron Age are the products of invaders from the south, and proposes a new terminology reflecting a wider perspective and the extended chronology now seen. 'Atlantic roundhouses' include brochs, duns and galleried duns in both solid and hollow wall construction, from 8th to 1st centuries cal BC. Development is from simple to complex and towards height and monumentality. The classic broch towers are ?lst century BC, but their traits were current for the preceding two centuries. This development must be seen in its cultural and economic context, and through regional development of power structures, with individual farmsteads becoming more differentiated. Wheelhouses developed in the last centuries BC as the non-defensive structures of the Western Isles. |
| Year of Publication: |
1989
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| 8th To 1st Centuries Cal Bc (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Lst Century Bc (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Farmsteads (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Hollow Wall (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Centuries Bc (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Atlantic Scottish Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Source: |
BIAB
(British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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| Created Date: |
05 Dec 2008 |
