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Article: Places of transformation: building monuments from water and stone in the Neolithic of the Irish Sea.
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Introduction: places of water and stone
Megalithic monuments dating from the Neolithic period (c.4,000-2,400 BC) are found all along the coasts of the Irish Sea. There is evidence that people in the Irish Sea zone were in contact with one another during the Neolithic period. Material culture moved across the Irish Sea from Ireland to Britain and vice versa (Cooney 2000; Saville 1994; Sheridan 1986). Furthermore, the monuments scattered along the shores of the Irish Sea share a number of characteristics which, in combination with the distinctive material culture found in association with these sites, suggests that the Irish Sea was an area of cultural interaction ...