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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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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/14422
 https://doi.org/10.13025/26773
Publication Date
2017-01-09
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neolithic, bronze age, field systems, agriculture, settlement, peat, pollen, subfossil wood, peat, holocene, history, scandes
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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
Abstract
It has long been claimed that the coaxial stone boundaries of Ceide 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 Ceide Fields complex has been overestimated by as much as two-and-a-half millennia.
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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