Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Tables and Figures iv
4. Notes on the Contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Foreword: ‘The prehistory of my own lands, the lowlands’ xi
7. Part I Scotland’s Mainland Neolithic in Context
8. 1 Gordon Barclay: A Career in the Scottish Neolithic 1
9. 2 Neolithic Pasts, Neolithic Futures: The Contemporary Socio-politics of Prehistoric Landscapes 21
10. 3 ‘Very real shared traditions’ ? Thinking about Similarity and Difference in the Construction and Use of Clyde Cairns in the Western Scottish Neolithic 41
11. 4 Who Were These People? A Sideways View and a Non-answer of Political Proportions 57
12. 5 Pathways to Ancestral Worlds: Mortuary Practice in the Irish Neolithic 74
13. PART II Non-megalithic Monuments
14. 6 Hiatus or Hidden? The Problem of the Missing Scottish Upland Cursus Monuments 95
15. 7 Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing Understandings of Henges in Prehistory and the Present 116
16. 8 Seeing the Wood in the Trees: The Timber Monuments of Neolithic Scotland 139
17. PART III Pits, Pots and Practice
18. 9 Life is the Pits! Ritual, Refuse and Mesolithic-Neolithic Settlement Traditions in North-east Scotland 169
19. 10 On Ancient Farms: A Survey of Neolithic Potentially Domestic Locations in Lowland Scotland 200
20. 11 The Neolithic Pottery from Balfarg/ Balbirnie Revisited 236
21. 12 Pursuing the Penumbral: The Deposition of Beaker Pottery at Neolithic and Ceremonial Monuments in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Scotland 261
22. Index 319