Physical, social and intellectual landscapes in the Neolithic : contextualizing Scottish and Irish Megalithic architecture
The broad aim of this study is to examine the way in which people build worlds which are liveable and which make sense; to explore the means by which a social, intellectual order particular to time and place is embedded within the material universe. The phenomenon of monumentality is considered in the context of changing narratives of place and biographies of person and landscape, which are implicated in the making of the self and society and the perception of being in place. Three groups of megalithic mortuary monuments of quite different formal characteristics, constructed and used predominantly during the fourth and third millennia BC, are analyzed in detail within their landscape setting: a series of Clyde tombs on the Isle of Arran in southwest Scotland; a group of cairns in the Black Isle of peninsula in the northeast of the country, which belong primarily to the Orkney-Cromarty tradition; and a passage tomb complex situated in east-central Ireland, among the Loughcrew hills. Individual studies are presented for each of these distinct and diverse landscapes, which consider the ways in which natural and built form interact through the medium of the human body, how megalithic architecture operated as part
Fraser, Shannon Marguerite
DA Great Britain ; CC Archaeology
Physical, social and intellectual landscapes in the Neolithic : contextualizing Scottish and Irish Megalithic architecture. The broad aim of this study is to examine the way in which people build worlds which are liveable and which make sense; to explore the means by which a social, intellectual order particular to time and place is embedded within the material universe. The phenomenon of monumentality is considered in the context of changing narratives of place and biographies of person and landscape, which are implicated in the making of the self and society and the perception of being in place. Three groups of megalithic mortuary monuments of quite different formal characteristics, constructed and used predominantly during the fourth and third millennia BC, are analyzed in detail within their landscape setting: a series of Clyde tombs on the Isle of Arran in southwest Scotland; a group of cairns in the Black Isle of peninsula in the northeast of the country, which belong primarily to the Orkney-Cromarty tradition; and a passage tomb complex situated in east-central Ireland, among the Loughcrew hills. Individual studies are presented for each of these distinct and diverse landscapes, which consider the ways in which natural and built form interact through the medium of the human body, how megalithic architecture operated as part
physical social_intellectual landscape neolithic contextualizing scottish irish megalithic architecture broad_aim study examine_way people build world make_sense explore mean social_intellectual order particular time_place embed_within material universe phenomenon monumentality consider context change narrative place biography person landscape implicate make self society perception place three_group megalithic mortuary monument quite_different formal characteristic construct use predominantly analyze_detail within_landscape setting series tombs isle southwest scotland group black isle peninsula northeast country belong primarily orkney tradition passage tomb complex situate east_central ireland among hill individual study present distinct diverse landscape consider way natural build form interact medium human_body megalithic architecture operate part