Contents

pp v-vi

List of Tables and Figures

pp vii-ix

Notes on the Contributors

pp x-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Foreword: ‘The prehistory of my own lands, the lowlands’

pp xv-xviii

Part I - Scotland's Mainland Neolithic in Context

pp 1-2

1 - Gordon Barclay: A Career in the Scottish Neolithic

pp 3-20

2 - Neolithic Pasts, Neolithic Futures: The Contemporary Sociopolitics of Prehistoric Landscapes

pp 21-40

3 - ‘Very real shared traditions’? Thinking about Similarity and Difference in the Construction and Use of Clyde Cairns in the Western Scottish Neolithic

pp 41-56

4 - Who Were These People? A Sideways View and a Non-answer of Political Proportions

pp 57-73

5 - Pathways to Ancestral Worlds: Mortuary Practice in the Irish Neolithic

pp 74-94

Part II - Non-megalithic Monuments

pp 95-96

6 - Hiatus or Hidden? The Problem of the Missing Scottish Upland Cursus Monuments

pp 97-115

7 - Making Memories, Making Monuments: Changing Understandings of Henges in Prehistory and the Present

pp 116-138

8 - Seeing the Wood in the Trees: The Timber Monuments of Neolithic Scotland

pp 139-168

Part III - Pits, Pots and Practice

pp 169-170

9 - Life is the Pits! Ritual, Refuse and Mesolithic–Neolithic Settlement Traditions in North-east Scotland

pp 171-199

10 - On Ancient Farms: A Survey of Neolithic Potentially Domestic Locations in Lowland Scotland

pp 200-235

11 - The Neolithic Pottery from Balfarg/Balbirnie Revisited

pp 236-260

12 - Pursuing the Penumbral: The Deposition of Beaker Pottery at Neolithic and Ceremonial Monuments in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Scotland

pp 261-318

Index

pp 319-322