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“…Given Iberia's importance for the Beaker phenomenon (e.g. Gibson 2016), it is tempting to consider links with Kilmartin. The two regions clearly share cultural features, such as a common understanding of ARA (e.g.…”

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“…As Henshall (1972) suggests, the large cist at Dunchraigaig Cairn may be the primary burial of the monument, with other elements added in the EBA. Late Neolithic funerary rites are poorly understood and recent studies, including aDNA research, have demonstrated that dichotomies between individual/collective and cremation/inhumation practices are not adequate to establish chronologies, as they often co-existed for centuries (Gibson 2016;Parker Pearson et al 2019). Instead, we need to consider a local origin for the deer carvings and their use or re-use within a Neolithic burial.…”

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Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin

Valdez-Tullett¹,

Barnett²,

Robin³

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The recent discovery of animal carvings in the Early Bronze Age burial cairn at Dunchraigaig (Kilmartin Glen, Scotland) prompts a re-evaluation of current knowledge of rock art in Britain. The deer and other quadrupeds represented in the monument are the first unambiguous depictions of prehistoric animals of prehistoric date in Scotland, and among the earliest identified in Britain and Ireland. This contrasts with the well-known abstract carvings of rock art in this region, characterized by cup-marks and cup-and-rings. The discovery also reinforces the special character of Kilmartin Glen as one of the most original and remarkable Neolithic–Bronze Age landscapes of monumentality and rock art in Britain. This article describes the process of authenticating the Dunchraigaig carvings as part of the Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP) and discusses their implications for our understanding of prehistoric rock art in Scotland, Britain and Atlantic Europe more widely.

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Section: Rock Art Rituals and Connectivitymentioning

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Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin

Valdez-Tullett¹,

Barnett²,

Robin³

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The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Bradley¹

2019

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The existence of Britain and Ireland posed a problem for the geographers of the Classical world ( Fig. 1.1 ). Their experience was limited to the Mediterranean where they had devised a scheme which saw the cosmos as a circular disc with the sea at its centre. For Hecataeus of Miletus, the land extended northwards into what is now Europe, southwards into Africa, and to the east as far as India, but beyond all these regions there was a river, Oceanus , which encircled the earth and marked the outer limit of the world ( Fig. 1.2 ). Only the dead could reach its farther shore; for Procopius writing in sixth-century Byzantium Britain was a land of ghosts (West 2007 : 390). There were two routes communicating directly between the inner sea and the most distant margin of the land. One was by the Arabian Gulf, whilst the second led through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic (Cunliff e 2001a : 2-6).Strictly speaking, the two islands studied in this book were beyond the limits of the world and so they could not exist, yet, as often happens, theory came into confl ict with practical experience. Long before the expansion of the Roman Empire there were reasons for questioning the traditional cosmology. Not long after 4000 bc axes made in the western Alps were distributed as far as the north of Scotland (Pétrequin et al. 2012 . It is no longer believed that Stonehenge was designed by a Mycenaean architect, but there seem to have been some connections between Britain, Northern Europe and the Aegean during the second millennium bc (Kristiansen and Larsson 2005 ). In the fi rst millennium, contacts between the Mediterranean and these outer islands intensifi ed during what is known as the Atlantic Bronze Age (Ruiz-Gálvez Priego 1998 ), and, later still, there are ceramic vessels of Greek origin among the fi nds from the Thames and other English rivers where they occur in similar contexts to metalwork of local manufacture and must have been deposited during the Iron Age (Bradley and A. Smith 2007 ).

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The Offshore Islands

2019

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

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Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin

Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin

The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

The Offshore Islands

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