This practical volume focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments but also covers some below ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. It will be an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the historic or post-medieval period, as well as forensic researchers and anthropologists.

Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique)

History

Mytum, Harold

Americas

Springer

Cultural developments in Early Christian Ireland have long been recognized and described. There has, however, been little attempt to date to explain why the flowering of culture should happen at the time and in the way it did. Harold Mytum explains changes in the period up to AD 800 in Ireland. External stimuli, most notably from Irish settlers in western Britain, acted as a catalyst which transformed a relatively moribund Iron Age culture into one of extraordinary vigour. All aspects of culture radically changed, and changes in each had knock-on effects on others: beliefs were revolutionised by Christianity; society was transformed by the church as an institution and the rise of the individual; agriculture was expanded by more advanced technology and the entepreneurial flair of individual decision-making; craft production became more widespread and offered a vehicle for the display of personal wealth and status. Long-distance trade and ecclesiastical contacts integrated Ireland with the rest of Europe more effectively than had ever been the case before. Harold Mytum takes a specific theoretical position on his subject-matter, that of processualist theory, and applies it in detail. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of early medieval European history, Irish history and archaeology.

The Origins of Early Christian Ireland

Europe

Routledge

This collection of papers is based on a conference on urban monasteries held at York in 1989. Contents: topography of monastic houses in Yorks towns (D M Palliser) ; spatial and social analysis of an Augustinian hospital, St Leonard's York (P H Cullum) ; recording worked stone (D Stocker) ; building in religious precincts in London after the Dissolution (J Schofield) ; water management in the urban monastery (C J Bond) ; archaeology of urban monasteries (L A S Butler) ; study of medieval tiles (J Stopford) ; bone assemblages (T P O'Connor) ; monastic topography of Chester S W Ward) ; pottery and glass in the monastery (S Moorhouse) .

Advances in Monastic Archaeology (BAR British)

Gilchrist, Roberta

British Archaeological Reports

19 papers from a rescue conference held in York in 1986 highlight the triumphs, failures and concerns of rescue archaeology and reflect the political climate of the mid Eighties.

Rescue Archaeology - What's Next?

Waugh, Karen

York Archaeological Publications

This volume provides the results of a 30-year excavation, reconstruction, and public interpretation campaign at the late prehistoric inland promontory settlement of Castell Henllys, here focusing on the defensive sequence and the role of monumentality in later prehistory. The site has international significance because of the extensive excavations of the Iron Age palisaded settlement and later earthen ramparts, complex gateway, and chevaux-de-frise of upright stones. It is now widely recognised that the Iron Age consisted of many regional cultural traditions, and the excavations at Castell Henllys provide a vital contrast to the well-known large hillfort communities in other parts of England and Wales as well as across Europe. As such, it is a unique window into a widespread but largely ignored site category and form of social and economic organisation. The publication will provide a case study for the construction and use of the earthworks of a major European late prehistoric settlement type – the Iron Age hillfort; the monumental construction is compared with other communal investments such as the Mississippian mounds. It will also offer an innovative form of site reporting, including alternative interpretations of the earthworks as either military defences or the community-binding symbols. Along with Excavation, Experiment and Heritage Interpretation: Castell Henllys Hillfort Then and Now, these books will be required reading by those studying the late prehistoric archaeology of Britain and Europe at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level, and by those in North America studying complex societies, monumentality and ways of writing archaeology.

Monumentality in Later Prehistory: Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort

Reference

This volume provides the results of a 30-year excavation, reconstruction, and public interpretation campaign at the late prehistoric settlement of Castell Henllys. It offers careful consideration of the changing roles of heritage in cultural politics.

Britain has a long tradition of establishing grave memorials to the dead, something which leaves an enduring record of individuals, social and religious beliefs, and of family and local history, Whether you chose to consult this book through pure curiosity, because you want to know how to record and analyse graveyards, or whether part of a wider program of research, this is a clear and pragmatic study that provides an excellent starting point.

Recording and Analysing Graveyards (Practical Handbooks in Archaeology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Council for British Archaeology

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Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique)

Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique)

The Origins of Early Christian Ireland

Advances in Monastic Archaeology (BAR British)

Rescue Archaeology - What's Next?

Monumentality in Later Prehistory: Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort

Monumentality in Later Prehistory: Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort

Recording and Analysing Graveyards (Practical Handbooks in Archaeology)