{"product_id":"cladh-hallan-mike-parker-pearson-9798888571163","title":"Cladh Hallan: Roundhouses and the Dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age: Part 2: Material Culture, Subsistence, Skeletons and Synthesis","description":"\u003cb\u003ePresents archaeological and scientific studies of materials from Cladh Hallan, revealing insights into Bronze and Iron Age life and death in Scotland.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis second of two volumes presents archaeological and scientific studies of a wide range of materials from the unusually long-occupied Bronze Age and Iron Age site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. These include metalworking debris, copper-alloy, gold and iron artefacts, bone and antler tools and ornaments, flint and quartz tools, coarse stone tools, pumice, shale ornaments and fuel ash slag. The metalworking assemblage, from casting weapons, tools and ornaments, is exceptional in its size and in its being stratified within a domestic context of production. Metal tools and ornaments, some placed as special deposits on house floors, include a gold-plated penannular ring and an iron object stratified within an 11th-century BC house floor, among the earliest finds of iron artefacts in Britain.\u003cbr\u003eThe enormous and well-preserved environmental assemblage includes faunal remains of land mammals, whales, fish, birds and marine and terrestrial molluscs. Sheep were the most numerous domestic species within an assemblage of over 150,000 land mammalian remains, and Cladh Hallan has the largest collection of canine remains for any settlement in British later prehistory. Carbonized plant remains derive principally from cultivation of barley and associated weeds of cultivation. \u003cbr\u003eThe site's assemblage provides extensive material for chemical analysis of food residues, isotopic analysis of animal and human remains, osteological analysis of human remains, histological analysis of their processes of diagenesis, and genetic analysis of ancient DNA from animal and human remains. These analyses include full investigation of the human remains from two composite inhumations that had formerly been mummified, the first discovery of this mortuary practice in prehistoric Britain. \u003cbr\u003eThe book concludes with a synthesis of results presented in the two volumes, presenting the rich insights provided by research on Cladh Hallan into life and death in the 2nd and early 1st millennia BC.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Parker Pearson, Jacqui Mulville, Helen Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888571163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxbow Books Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mike Parker Pearson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47040049742079,"sku":"9798888571163","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb76b456-450e-47ac-893a-1cae4e1e2270.jpg?v=1752753405","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cladh-hallan-mike-parker-pearson-9798888571163","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}