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Monuments and landscape in Atlantic Europe : perception and society during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age

Author: Christopher Scarre
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Scarre
ISBN: 0415273137 9780415273138 0415273145 9780415273145 9780203994054 0203994051
OCLC Number: 48098438
Description: xii, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: situating monuments: the dialogue between built form and landform in Atlantic Europe / Chris Scarre --
pt. 1. Atlantic Iberia --
Standing stones and natural outcrops: the role of ritual monuments in the Neolithic transition of the Central Alentejo / Manuel Calado --
Castanheiro do Vento and the significance of monumental Copper and Bronze Age sites in northern Portugal / Vítor Oliveira Jorge ... [et al.] --
Architecture of the natural world: rock art in western Iberia / Lara Bacelar Alves --
pt. 2. Atlantic France --
Perception of space and geometry: megalithic monuments of west-central France in their relationship to the landscape / Luc Laporte, Roger Joussaume, Chris Scarre --
Coast and cosmos: the Neolithic monuments of northern Brittany / Chris Scarre --
pt. 3. Britain and Ireland --
All cultural things: actual and conceptual monuments in the Neolithic of western Britain / Vicki Cummings --
Land, the sky and the Scottish stone circle / Richard Bradley --
Knocknarea: the ultimate monument: megaliths and mountains in Neolithic Cúil Irra, north-west Ireland / Stefan Bergh --
Megaliths in a mythologised landscape: south-west Ireland in the Iron Age / William O'Brien --
pt. 4. Scandinavia --
Visible intentions? Viewshed analysis of Bronze Age burial mounds in western Scania, Sweden / Karin Ericson Lagerås --
Conclusion: long conversations, concerning time, descent and place in the world / Alasdair Whittle.
Responsibility: edited by Chris Scarre.
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