Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland - Softcover

Ginn, Victoria Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784912433 ISBN 13: 9781784912437

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2016

Synopsis

This study examines Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. Recent archaeological investigations have extended the knowledge of habitation, but no detailed, systematic attempts have been made to understand the domestic evidence, or to substantially revise the existing models for the development of complex Bronze Age societies. All available data relating to settlements dating to Middle–Late Bronze Age have been collated. An evidence-based chronology for settlement is established for the first time. The data are examined at multiple scales to investigate any spatial or chronological trends in settlement character or distribution. The relationships between settlements and the surrounding environmental and social landscapes are analysed through a GIS. The new data are investigated to see how domestic settlements operated, and if traditional concepts regarding the structure of Bronze Age society can still be upheld. Agent-based modelling and social network analysis provide another dimension to the discussion regarding power, regionalism, and hierarchy within the settlement network. The results reveal a distinct rise in the visibility, and a rapid adaption, of domestic architecture, which seems to have occurred earlier in Ireland than elsewhere in western and northern Europe.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Study Overview

Chapter 2: Bronze Age Review

Chapter 3: Research Design

Chapter 4: Chronology

Chapter 5: Location, Location, Location

Chapter 6: The Use of Space and Place Within

Chapter 7: The Organized Landscape

Chapter 8: Moving Beyond the Map

Chapter 9: Discussion

Chapter 11: Conclusions

References

Appendix

About this edition

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784912433
• ISBN 13: 9781784912437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262