Breaking away: identity and society in Scotland's Neolithics

• Autores: Jessica Smyth
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 90, Nº 354, 2016, págs. 1689-1691
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Characterising the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland has always been a lively pursuit. Following the referendums on Scottish independence and Brexit, and the consequent shifts in modern cultural and political identities, research into the first farming communities of these islands and their tangled traditions assumes particular resonance. The two volumes under review explore Neolithic identities in Scotland: the first, a festschrift for Gordon Barclay, focused around the theme of mainland Scotland; the second, a monograph pulling together more than two decades of fieldwork led by Colin Richards and colleagues around the Bay of Firth in Orkney