Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781842174975
Pub Date: 29 May 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Prehistoric Society Research Papers
Illustrations: 54 b/w figs
Description:
The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived architectural phenomenon of as little as 90 years, perhaps like short-lived Early Neolithic long barrows and causewayed enclosures. This book explores the wealth of evidence for settlement and houses throughout the Irish Neolithic, in relation to Britain and continental Europe.