Stones and Bones: Formal disposal of the dead in Atlantic Europe during the Mesolithic-Neolithic interface 6000-3000 BC: Archaeological Conference in Honour of the Late Professor Michael J. O'Kelly. Proceedings of the Stones and Bones Conference in Sligo, Ireland, May 1-5, 2002

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Stones and Bones archaeological conference held in Sligo in May 2002 in honour of the late Professor Michael O'Kelly. 15 papers are included, as are several abstracts and posters. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Preface Some Reminiscences Chronology and Origins Ireland’s earliest ‘passage’ tombs: a French connection? Megaliths in Portugal: the western network revisited Diverse Inspirations: Landscapes, longhouses and the neolithic monument forms of northern France The gods of Newgrange in Irish literature & Romano-Celtic tradition Megalithic Chronologies Subsistence No fixed abode? Nomadism in the northwest European neolithic Shell middens and megaliths Mesolithic funerary contexts in Cantabrian Spain and their relation to the Neolithic Megaliths, settlement and subsistence in Bohuslän, Sweden The exploitation of freshwater food resources by Meso- and Neolithic populations of Central Europe Landscapes, artefacts, bones and burial contexts Living with the Dead: Reconsidering the ‘Mesolithic’/‘Neolithic’ transition in Britain and Ireland Collective Burial Practices across the Agricultural Transition in the Eastern Woodlands Megalithic Interaction - Spatial Distribution and Morphological Variation among the Tombs of Ireland On the Anatomy of Megaliths – the interrelation between physical interment and morphology in Irish megalithic tombs Sourcing the quartz at Newgrange, Brú na Bóinne, Ireland Grave or ossuary? Osteological finds from a recently excavated passage tomb in Falbygden, Sweden Abstracts to papers not submitted to the Conference Proceedings, and posters