The Prehistory Of Scotland

V. Gordon Childe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317606475
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume, originally published in 1935, sought to reveal the significance of Scottish prehistory for the development of understanding of European prehistory. Written at a time of rapid accumulation of new relics and monuments and the insights from them, Professor Childe presented some important new data and made tentative conclusions for the future results from these finds. After an introduction to the geography of Scotland the book looks at evidence from cairns, tombs and stone circles and then addresses chronologically the evidence from Early Bronze Age to Late and onto the Iron Age, with a chapter devoted to forts, towns and castles. It ends with a discussion of what happened in the Dark Ages and addresses questions about the Celts and the Picts and the diversity of the peoples in Scotland.

Index

Abercromby, J., 81, 126, 142, 264

Abernethy, Castlelaw (E. Perths.), 194, 226, 231, 233, 234, 236, 257

Achaidh (E. Sutherland), 36

Achnacree (Argyll), 41, 64, 65

Adabrock (Lewis), 153, 161, 165, 166

Adamnan, St., 4

adzes, bronze, flanged 147

Agricola, 4, 190, 191, 192, 207, 237, 241, 243

agriculture, 7, 22, 26, 60, 67, 75, 78, 118, 123, 154, 175, 183, 200, 204, 209, 224, 247, 265; see also barley, lynchets, querns, sickels, wheat

Aikerness (Orkney), 239, 258

Aitnock (Ayrs.), 198

Alcalá (Portugal), 59, 78

alignments, 44, 114, 119

All Cannings Cross (Wilts.), 170, 222, 233, 238, 239, 241, 243

Alloa (Clackmannan), 130, 131, 162, 164

amber, 60, 103, 104, 140, 150, 153

Ammianus, 261

Anderson, J., 32, 33, 38, 40, 53, 114, 140, 166 n., 204, 248

antechambers (to collective tombs), 24, 37, 42, 58

Antonine Wall, see Roman Walls

anvils, 151

Archerfield Cave (E. Lothian), 229

Ardeer (Ayrs.), 129, 135, 136

Ardifuar (Argyll), 200, 257

Ardoch (Perths.), 166, 192, 230

Ardoe (Aberdeens.), 161

Aristotle, 115

armlets: jet, 52, 138, 170, 171, 176, 217, 235, 236, 250; stone, 186; glass, 235, 247

bronze: cuff type, 102; massive, 88, 94, 102; penannular, 153, 16...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• ABBREVIATIONS
• I. THE PERSONALITY OF SCOTLAND
• II. THE FIRST COLONIZATION OF SCOTLAND
• III. CHAMBERED CAIRNS
• IV. THE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATION OF SCOTLAND
• V. THE ROUND-HEADED INVADERS
• VI. EARLY BRONZE AGE MONUMENTS
• VII. CINERARY URNS
• VIII. THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRONZE INDUSTRY
• IX. THE LATE BRONZE AGE INVASION
• X. KELTIC FORTRESSES AND REFUGES
• XI. THE KELTIC IRON AGE
• XII. SCOTLAND BEFORE THE SCOTS
• MAPS
• INDEX