Browsing by Author "Jones, Carleton"
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Boundary behaviour in the Irish Bronze Age: A study of social and ritual practices in the mid-late Bronze Age
Byrne, Marcus (NUI Galway, 2024-04-08)The purpose of this thesis is to gain an insight into how boundaries were understood and utilised in the social and ritual lives of Bronze Age people. Boundaries are known in many forms, from visible physical linear ... -
Calendars, feasting, cosmology and identities: later Neolithic-early Bronze Age Ireland in European context
McVeigh, Thor (2016-07-25)The aim of the study is to investigate the connections between calendar systems, large-scale feasting activities, changing representations of cosmological ideas and the formation of group identities from the Middle/Late ... -
Exchange in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) Ireland: Connecting people, objects and ideas
Ó Maoldúin, Ros (2014-12-01)The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) in Ireland were periods of great flux, out of which and into which, novel technologies and institutions emerged and were transmitted. This thesis combines analysis of the material ... -
People, land-use and time: linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental data to the archaeological record of prehistoric Co. Clare, Ireland
Spencer, Daisy Eleanor (NUI Galway, 2019-01-23)The aim of this thesis is to understand the nature of changing human-environment interactions through prehistory (from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age) in two neighbouring regions of western Ireland. The first is the ... -
Ritual aspects of Irish portal tombs
Mercer, Phyllis (2014-12-03)Portal tombs, of which there are approximately 180 in Ireland, are the least studied of the great megaliths of Neolithic Ireland. Although they have all been recorded and described, this study is the first to be entirely ... -
Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland - Material Culture, Practices, Landscape Setting and Social Context
Leonard, Katherine (2014-02-20)This thesis develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record, as well as determining how distinct ritual practices relate to ...