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Understanding ancient fortifications : between regionality and connectivity
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ISBN: 9781785707483 9781785707490 1785707493 1785707485 1785707515 9781785707513 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books,

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In many regions of Europe and beyond fortifications belong to the most impressive of archaeological remains. Their study has a long tradition and today a multitude of aspects about architecture, function or symbolism has been explored. However, fortifications are generally examined in a temporally, regionally or culturally limited context. Going a step further, this volume aims to bring into focus concepts of fortifications, which can be socially, symbolically or functionally, but also chronologically and supra-regionally aligned. An important question is to determine which fortification elements are culture-specific, and which can be regarded as convergence or even universal phenomena. Adopting a comparative view, the central aim of the volume is to highlight the diversity and the structural similarities of ancient fortifications. The chronological framework goes from the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age, and the geographical scope from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula.


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Hillforts : Britain, Ireland and the nearer continent : papers from the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland Conference, June 2017
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ISBN: 9781789692273 178969227X Year: 2019 Publisher: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,

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Funded by the AHRC, the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project (2012-2016) involved a team drawn from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork which was responsible for compiling a massive database, now freely available online at https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac, on hillforts in Britain and Ireland. This was underpinned by a major desk-based re-assessment of accessible records. These twelve studies, presented at the end of that exercise to a conference in Edinburgh, and contributed by team members and colleagues, outline the background to and development of the project (Gary Lock) and offer a preliminary assessment of the online digital Atlas (John Pouncett) as well as presenting initial research studies using Atlas data. The volume is profusely illustrated with over 140 figures, including many new maps.Ian Ralston provides a historical assessment of key stages in the enumeration and mapping of these important monuments on both sides of the Irish Sea. The hill- and promontory forts of England, Wales and the Isle of Man are assessed by Ian Brown and those of Ireland by James O’Driscoll, Alan Hawkes and William O’Brien. Stratford Halliday’s study of the Scottish evidence focuses on the impact of the application of the Atlas criteria to the records of forts in that country. Simon Maddison deploys Percolation Analysis as an example of the potential re-use of the Atlas data in analysing new distributions; Jessica Murray presents a GIS-based approach to hillfort settings and configurations.Syntheses on insular Early Historic fortified settlements in northern Britain and Ireland, by James O’Driscoll and Gordon Noble, and on hillforts in areas of the nearer Continent are included. The latter comprise an overview by Sophie Krausz on Iron Age fortifications in France and a consideration of the south German records of hillforts and oppida by Axel Posluschny, while Fernando Rodriguez del Cueto tackles the north-western Spanish evidence.


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Enclosures and defences in the neolithic of Western Europe
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ISBN: 0860545180 Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford BAR


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Hill-forts of Britain
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ISBN: 0246108355 Year: 1975 Publisher: London Hart-Davis

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Ancient hillforts of Finland : problems of analysis, chronology and interpretation with special reference to the hillfort of Kuhmoinen.
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ISBN: 9519056971 Year: 1990 Publisher: Helsinki Finska fornminnesföreningen


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Enclosures in Neolithic Europe
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ISBN: 1785705253 1785705237 9781785705236 Year: 2002 Publisher: Havertown Oxbow Books


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Archaeological excavations of fortified sites on Taveuni, Fiji
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ISBN: 0824802667 Year: 1974 Volume: no. 6 Publisher: Honolulu : Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii,

Enclosures in Neolithic Europe: essays on causewayed and non-causewayed sites
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ISBN: 1842170686 9781842170687 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow

War before civilization
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ISBN: 1283113295 9786613113290 0199761531 9780199761531 0195091124 9780195091120 0195119126 9780195119121 9781283113298 6613113298 0199880700 9780199880706 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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The myth of the peace-loving ""noble savage"" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced t


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Hillforts: later prehistoric earthworks in Britain and Ireland
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ISBN: 0123247500 Year: 1976 Publisher: London Academic Press

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