Raftery, Barry.

Relics of Old Decency. Archaeological studies in later prehistory : Festschrift for Barry Raftery. Edited by Gabriel Cooney, Katharina Becker, John Coles, Michael Ryan and Susanne Sievers.

Dublin, Wordwell, 2009. 29 cm. XII, 560 pages with numerous illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), charts, plans. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

Includes for example the following essays: Wetlands: Taking the Waters: Scottish crannogs and the Atlantic Iron Age / A Colossus of Roads: the Iron Age archaeology of Ireland’s peatlands / Exploitation of plants and animals at the Jomon wetland site of Sakuramachi in Toyama, Japan / Early medieval crannogs and imagined islands / Artefacts and Context: The small metal tools of the Irish Bronze Age / To be or not to be a Celt – Does it really matterIron Age Ireland – finding an invisible people / Ritual feasting in Iron Age Ireland / Irish late prehistoric burial ring-ditches / How many Hillforts are there in Scotland ? / Re-evaluation of a supposed inland promontory fort: Knoxspark, Co. Sligo – Iron Age fortress or Viking stronghold ? / The life and legacy of R.A.S. Macalister: a century of archaeology at UCD / “These gentlemen” – an old row over who should excavate Tara / etc. etc.

• Keywords: Archaeology · Archaeology – Rare · Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Irish History – Rare · Neolithic Ireland · Prehistoric Ireland
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781905569373
• Inventory Number: 110303AB

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