Books by "David Morgan Evans"
8 books found
Archaeologies & Antiquaries: Essays by Dai Morgan Evans
by David Morgan Evans
2022 · Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
This book collects and republishes 14 key academic works by Dai Morgan Evans FSA (1944–2017). Spanning early medieval studies, the management and conservation of ancient monuments, histories of antiquarianism, and the Welsh church of Llangar, the chapters have been freshly edited and published together for the first time with new illustrations.
Armed with his own memoirs and its embarrassing disclosures of his friends youthful escapades, the hapless but likeable Eric gets mistakenly invited to his famous artist friends giant bash at the latters country pile. Wheedling his way in, he proceeds to cause havoc, leading to hilarious consequences. Both funny and satirical, we are taken through the lives of a group of friends threading through the 1970s and 1980s to the present day. Del Mont brilliantly evokes the essence of the late 20th century.
Gods, deities, symbolism, deposition, cosmology and intentionality are all features of the study of early ritual and cult. Archaeology has great difficulties in providing satisfactory interpretation or recognition of these elusive but important parts of ancient society, and methodologies are often poorly equipped to explore the evidence. This collection of papers explores a wide range of prehistoric and early historic archaeological contexts from Britain, Europe and beyond, where monuments, architectural structures, megaliths, art, caves, ritual activity and symbolic remains offer exciting glimpses into ancient belief systems and cult behaviour. Different theoretical and practical approaches are demonstrated, offering both new directions and considered conclusions to the many problems of studying the archaeology of cult and ritual. Central to the volume is an exploration of early Malta and its intriguing Temple Culture, set in a broad perspective by the discussion and theoretical approaches presented in different geographical and chronological contexts.
Scholars have often been puzzled by the fact that the basic word-order rule of Welsh seems to have changed twice in the last 1000 years. David Willis explores how and why these changes have taken place. He examines the relationship between the literary and spoken language throughout the history of Welsh, points out similarities between the rules of earlier Welsh and other European languages, and looks at the forces that cause languages to change over time.