The significance of monuments : on the shaping of human experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe /
The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Students of prehistory have long found the highly theoretical interpretations of the period perplexing and contradictory. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his an...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I.
- From the house of the dead.
- 1.
- Structures of sand: settlements, monuments and the nature of the Neolithic.
- 2.
- Thinking the Neolithic: the Mesolithic world view and its transformation.
- 3.
- The death of the house: the origins of long mounds and Neolithic enclosures.
- 4.
- Another time: architecture, ancestry and the development of chambered tombs.
- 5.
- Small worlds: causewayed enclosures and their transformations
- pt. II.
- Describing a circle.
- 6.
- The persistence of memory: ritual, time and the history of ceremonial monuments.
- 7.
- The public interest: ritual and ceremonial, from passage graves to henges.
- 8.
- Theatre in the round: henge monuments, stone circles and their integration with the landscape.