Richard Bradley

The Significance of Monuments (eBook, ePUB)

On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Significance of Monuments is an indispensable text for all students of European prehistory. It is also an enlightening read for professional archaeologists and all those interested in this fascinating period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134744831
• Artikelnr.: 38250446

Autorenporträt

Richard Bradley is Professor of Archaeology at Reading University. Current interests include landscape archaeology and rock art. Recent books include Altering the Earth and Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe. He is the general editor of the Routledge Journal World Archaeology.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Preface Part One: 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: Architecure, Ancestry and the Development of Chambered Tombs
5. Small Worlds: Causewayed Enclosures and their Transformations Part Two:
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 9. Closed
Circles: the Changing Character of Monuments, from Enclosures to Cemeteries
10. An Agricultural Revolution: the Domestication of Ritual Life during
later Prehistory References.