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Neolithic ‘Celtic’ Fields? A reinterpretation of the chronological evidence from Céide Fields in north-western Ireland

Whitefield, Andrew
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2017-01-09
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Neolithic, Bronze Age, field systems, agriculture, settlement, peat, pollen
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Whitefield, Andrew. (2017). Neolithic ‘Celtic’ Fields? A Reinterpretation of the Chronological Evidence from Céide Fields in North-western Ireland. European Journal of Archaeology, 20(2), 257-279. doi:10.1017/eaa.2016.5
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It has long been claimed that the coaxial stone boundaries of Céide Fields, County Mayo, are a phenomenon of the Irish Early Neolithic analogous to later prehistoric Celtic fields in all but age. This study argues that the age disparity is an artefact of the research methods, and that the age of the main Céide Fields complex has been overestimated by as much as two-and-a-half millennia.
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Cambridge University Press
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10.1017/eaa.2016.5
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