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prehistoric site ([De]) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... site [De] An archaeological site dating to the period before literary, historical, archival, or recorded oral documentation for the period of use or the material culture it...
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A Dictionary of English Folklore
... sites . Visible landscape features which seemed artificial, yet had no practical function and no known history, frequently feature in local legends . They are associated with the Devil , giants , fairies , and legendary heroes or wizards. Many are said to conceal treasures , or to be places where ritual actions (such as running round them) can raise ghosts . How much of all this was seriously believed, and how much merely repeated for fun, is hard to assess. See also BARROWS , STANDING STONES , CADBURY CASTLE , LONG MEG , MERRY MAIDENS , ...
In the Beginning: The Earliest History Reference library
Michael D. Coogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...yielding a detailed record of the political history and material culture of the region since prehistoric times. As one moves farther away from Palestine, the number of excavated tells decreases, even though in such areas as northern Syria the mounds are more numerous. In Jordan and Syria especially, countless sites have never been excavated. Since the last third of the twentieth century, more attention has focused on smaller sites, often occupied for only one period, and these have been studied not only by actual excavation but also...
Landscape History: The Countryside Quick reference
H. S. A. Fox
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...type both by Giraldus Cambrensis ( Gerald of Wales ), and by Archbishop Pecham ( c. 1230–1292 ), in a report to Edward I. If archaeologists could be persuaded to move away from a preoccupation with deserted sites and to incorporate living farms into their surveys, it may yet be shown that some of these farms have ancient, even prehistoric origins. By far the best guide to the problems and techniques of distinguishing between the two types—and the most ambitious and sustained essay in early landscape history to appear recently—is Alan Everitt , ...
Historic Churches Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...because the early Christians took over pagan sites and adapted them for their own purposes. At All Saints, Rudston (Yorkshire), a prehistoric monolith, which dates from the late Neolithic or Bronze Age , stands over 25 feet high in the churchyard, 10 metres from the chancel. The place‐name has led to the suggestion that a Christian cross, or rood , was attached to the top of the stone. A local legend maintained that the stone was a javelin hurled in anger by the Devil at this desecration of his site, but that it was deflected by divine intervention....
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Margaret Gelling
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...maps and presented as the earliest sites occupied by the English. As the work of the Survey proceeded, however, it became increasingly apparent that many of the names highlighted by these scholars were in improbable situations for early settlements, and that there were serious discrepancies between their distribution and that of the sites where the earliest Anglo‐Saxon archaeological material was found. The first supposedly ‘early’ names to be subjected to critical examination were those which were considered to indicate sites of pagan religious practices. There...
Archaeology and the Bible Reference library
Oxford Bible Atlas (4 ed.)
...Tombs and burial practices Archaeology has revealed a great variety of types of burial, from simple interments or cave burials to elaborate tombs, with evidence from right across the historical and indeed prehistorical spectrum. The presence of various objects placed alongside the bodies suggests a belief in the necessity of making some sort of provision for the dead, though the extent to which such funerary goods provide evidence for a belief in an afterlife is uncertain. Burials from the...
Industrial History Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...as the ‘recording, preserving in selected cases and interpreting the sites and structures of early industrial activity, particularly the monuments of the Industrial Revolution’. The journal Industrial Archaeology Review , founded in 1976 , endorsed this view, but Arthur Raistrick , Industrial Archaeology ( 1972 ), argued against the emphasis on the Industrial Revolution and promoted the idea that the subject should include all aspects of industrial history, stretching back to prehistoric times. Another influential publication in the development of the...
Popular Culture Quick reference
Charles Phythian-Adams
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...Probably every township , for example, had some particularized sense of its own past: a myth of origin (usually associated specifically with either Britons, or Anglo‐Saxons, or Scandinavians) or even a prehistoric landmark around which had gathered some legendary or superstitious association (see L. V. Grinsall , The Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain (1976) ). Each local community, moreover, boasted its own annual cycle of calendar customs ( see folklore, customs, and civic ritual ) that owed as much to cultural variables (like the earlier...
Domestic Buildings Quick reference
Malcolm Airs
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...Buildings Shelter is a fundamental requirement of human beings and the archaeological evidence for the ways by which this basic need has been met extend far back into the prehistoric period. However, it is only in the centuries following the Norman Conquest that the house as a standing structure survives in sufficient numbers to enable its three‐dimensional history to be written. Wealth and social rank are the major distinguishing features which have shaped the architectural forms taken by buildings with a predominantly domestic function, and these...
1 Writing Systems Reference library
Andrew Robinson
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...in southern France, which are probably 20,000 years old. A cave at Peche Merle, in the Lot, contains a lively Ice Age graffito showing a stencilled hand and a pattern of red dots. This may simply mean: ‘I was here, with my animals’—or perhaps the symbolism is deeper. Other prehistoric images show animals such as horses, a stag’s head, and bison, overlaid with signs; and notched bones have been found that apparently served as lunar calendars. ‘Proto-writing’ is not writing in the full sense of the word. A scholar of writing, the Sinologist John DeFrancis ,...
Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...Claire Jarvis , ‘ The Reconstitution of Nineteenth‐Century Rural Communities ’, Local Population Studies , 51 (1993) . In 1956 Finberg gathered a group of scholars to launch The Agrarian History of England and Wales ( AHEW ), a multi‐volume treatment of the subject from prehistoric times to the present day. In 1967 volume iv, covering the period 1500–1640 , appeared under the editorship of Joan Thirsk. In her occasional paper Fenland Farming in the Sixteenth Century ( 1953 ), and her essay ‘Industries in the Countryside’ in F. J. Fisher (ed.), ...
1700 to the Present Reference library
Ronald Clements
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...physicist and Egyptologist who played a key role in deciphering the demotic text of the Rosetta Stone. Hulton Getty. More immediately pressing for biblical interpretation was the emerging awareness that the biblical evidence regarding the chronology of the prehistoric period of earth's existence posed difficulties. Isaac Newton had wrestled with the mathematical data, and Archbishop Ussher's contention that the original date of earth's creation was 4004 bce , with Jesus himself having been born in 4 bce , was increasingly cast into a...
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