Set in stone

Vicki Cummings is Reader in Archaeology in the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire where she specialises in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Britain and Ireland, with a particular focus on monuments and landscape. She has a broader interest in hunting and gathering populations, interpretive archaeology and stone tools.

• AcknowledgementsList of contributorsForeword (Alasdair Whittle)Not my type: discourses in monumentality (Kenneth Brophy)Island views: the settings of the chambered cairns of southern Orkney (Vicki Cummings and Amelia Pannett)Ancestry, farming and the changing architecture of the Clyde cairns of south-west Scotland (Gordon Noble)The chambered cairns of South Uist (Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples)A view from within: monumental spaces in the Neolithic of Caithness (Amelia Pannett)The excavation of a chambered cairn at Leaval, South Uist (Vicki Cummings and Niall Sharples)Fishing for meaning: lived space and the early Neolithic of Orkney (Fraser Stuart)The 'henge' and 'hengiform' in Scotland (G. J. Barclay)Choreographed monumentality: recreating the centre of other worlds at the monumental complex of Callanish, western Lewis (Cole Henley)Between a rock and a hard place: rock art and mimesis in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland (Andy Jones)

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