Lake Dwellings after Robert Munro. Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar: The Lake Dwellings of Europe, 22nd and 23rd October 2010, University of Edinburgh

194 Pages·2012·5.857 MB·English

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France, Morocco even, struggle with the same problems, but have a The Lake Dwellings of Europe 22nd and 23rd October 2010,
which to fund lectures in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology. Over the f
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Lake Dwellings
after Robert Munro
Proceedings from the Munro International Seminar:
The Lake Dwellings of Europe 22nd and 23rd October 2010,
University of Edinburgh
edited by
Magdalena S. Midgley & Jeff Sanders
© 2012 Individual Authors
Published by Sidestone Press, Leiden
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Sidestone registration number: SSP121870001
ISBN 978-90-8890-092-1
Illustration cover: “Lake Village with Blue Mountain” by Ernest Griset (1844-1907);
Lubbock family archives (reproduced with permission of the Lubbock family.
Cover design: K. Wentink, Sidestone Press
Lay-out: F. Stevens & P.C. van Woerdekom, Sidestone Press
Contents
Acknowledgments 7
List of contributors 9
List of figures 11
Preface 15
1 Munro and the emergence of archaeology 17
Magdalena S. Midgley and Jeff Sanders
2 A man changed by Darwin 37
David Clarke
3 Research on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age wetland 55
sites on the north European plain
Johannes Müller
4 All in good tradition? some thoughts on cultural markers 93
in a late Neolithic lakeside dwelling from Switzerland
Thomas Doppler, Sandra Pichler, Brigitte Röder, Jörg
Schibler
5 Copper artefacts of the Mondsee group and their possible 113
sources
Carolin Frank and Ernst Pernicka
6 Forging a chronological framework for Scottish crannogs; 139
the radiocarbon and dendrochronological evidence
Anne Crone
7 Crannogs as buildings: the evolution of interpretation 169
1882 - 2011
Graeme Cavers

Acknowledgments
The organisers of the Munro International Seminar would like to
thank the Munro Trust, University of Edinburgh; the College of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh; and the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, for providing financial support.
Warms thanks are due to the speakers who contributed so much
to making the Symposium a success. Thanks for helping to run the
event smoothly are due to a number of student volunteers from
Archaeology, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University
of Edinburgh; and also to Vasilki Koutrafouri, Erin Osborne-Martin
and Simon Gilmour from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Particular thanks are due to the Lubbock family for permission to
use in our publicity, and subsequently as the cover for this volume,
the image “Lake Village with Blue Mountain” (Lubbock family
archive) and to Marie-Louise Kerr, Curator, Bromley Museum
Service, for permission to use the image “Lake Village” (Bromley
Museum Service). Both images are from the collection of paintings
illustrating scenes of life from prehistory, commissioned from
Ernest Griset (1844-1907) by the pre-eminent prehistorian Sir John
Lubbock (1834-1913).
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