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Rethinking roundhouses : later prehistoric settlement in Britain and beyond /

Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure, reflecting successive stages of the building's biography. What does not survive archaeologically can only be inferred from context or comparative evidence. The great...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harding, D. W. (Dennis William) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Architecture, Prehistoric > Great Britain.
Architecture, Prehistoric > Ireland.
Iron age > Great Britain.
Iron age > Ireland.
Great Britain > Antiquities, Celtic.
Ireland > Antiquities, Celtic.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Britain.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Ireland.
Architecture préhistorique > Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture préhistorique > Irlande.
Irlande > Antiquités celtiques.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture, Prehistoric
Celtic antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Iron age
Great Britain
Ireland
Archaeology.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Landmarks in Roundhouse Studies
  • Crannogs and Lake-Villages
  • Wessex between the Wars
  • Pimperne and Longbridge Deverill
  • The 1970s: Experiment and Interpretation
  • Survey and Excavation in the Tyne-Forth Region, c. 1948-1985
  • Brochs, Fieldwork and Interpretation, 1980-2000
  • Structuralism and Roundhouse Cosmology
  • 2. Twenty-First-Century Archaeology: Radical Change
  • Archaeology, Science, and Technology
  • A Change of Scale in Excavation
  • Publication of Excavations
  • Archaeological Theory
  • 'House Societies'
  • Egalitarian or Hierarchical?
  • Archaeology as Entertainment
  • Archaeology and Climate Change
  • 3. Analysing and Interpreting Timber Roundhouses
  • Some Key Sites
  • Post-Ring, Double-Ring, and Central Post Construction
  • Ring-Grooves and Wall-Slots
  • 'Drip-Gullies' and Drainage Trenches
  • Floors and Internal Fittings
  • Superstructure: Walls and Roofs
  • Central Four-Posters
  • Central Towers
  • Multi-Ringed Roundhouses
  • Houses with Ring-Ditches: Erosion, Storage, or Headroom?
  • 'Special' Roundhouses
  • 4. Analysing and Interpreting Stone-Built Roundhouses
  • Brochs, Broch Towers, and Complex Atlantic Roundhouses
  • An Architectural Perspective
  • Canonical Brochs: A Traditionalist View Reasserted?
  • The Problem of Non-Brochs with Broch Attributes
  • 'Simple' Atlantic Roundhouses
  • Dun Houses
  • Radial Roundhouses
  • 5. Roundhouses in Context: Settlements and Landscape
  • The Thames Valley
  • The English Midlands
  • West Yorkshire
  • The Northumberland Coastal Plain
  • Roundhouses in Hillforts
  • 6. Archaeotectural Alternatives
  • The Wessex Model Reviewed
  • Oval Houses
  • Figure-of-Eight, 'Shamrocks' and Cellular Houses
  • Houses That Leave Minimal Trace.
  • Rectangular Houses: Continuity or Change?
  • Aisled Houses and Aisled Halls
  • Conclusions
  • 7. Regional Diversity in Britain and Beyond
  • Wales and the West
  • Ireland
  • Northern and North-Western France
  • The Castro Culture of the Peninsular North-West
  • Postscript
  • 8. Chronology, Origins, and Aftermath
  • Neolithic Antecedents?
  • Bronze Age Circular Structures in Northern Britain
  • Middle and Late Bronze Age Structures in Southern England
  • The Roman Iron Age
  • 9. Roundhouses: Space, Time, and Social Use
  • Life-Cycle of Roundhouses
  • Roundhouses and Round Houses
  • Round and Rectangular: Squaring the Circle
  • Change through Time
  • Methodology and Theoretical Afterthoughts
  • Roundhouses and Iron Age Society
  • Bibliography
  • Index.