The archaeology of prehistoric burnt mounds in Ireland / Alan Hawkes.
Material type: TextPublisher: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018Description: 1 online resource (viii, 328 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:- text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 178491987X
- 9781784919870
- 936.15 23
- GN795
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
This work details the archaeology of burnt mounds (fulachta�i fia) in Ireland, one of the most frequent and under researched prehistoric site types in the country. It presents a re-evaluation of the pyrolithic phenomenon in light of some 1000 excavated burnt mounds.
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PREFACE ; CHAPTER 1: BURNT MOUNDS: AN INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 2: A HISTORY OF BURNT MOUND RESEARCH IN IRELAND ; CHAPTER 3: PYROLITHIC TECHNOLOGY: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT ; CHAPTER 4: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF BURNT MOUNDS IN IRELAND ; CHAPTER 5: CHRONOLOGY ; CHAPTER 6: THE USE AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BURNT MOUNDS ; CHAPTER 7: SETTLEMENT CONTEXT ; CHAPTER 8: CULTURAL CONTEXT: THE LONGUE DUR�EE OF THE BURNT MOUND PHENOMENON ; CHAPTER 9: RECONSIDERING THE BURNT MOUND PHENOMENON ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; APPENDIX 1: Additional tables ; APPENDIX 2: List of excavated burnt mounds in Ireland 1950−2010.
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