Monuments and landscape in Atlantic Europe : perception and society during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. |
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| Description: | xii, 210 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4674120 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Situating Monuments: the Dialogue between Built Form and Landform in Atlantic Europe
- Part I. Atlantic Iberia
- 1. Standing Stones and Natural Outcrops: the Role of Ritual Monuments in the Neolithic Tansition of the Central Alentejo
- 2. Castanheiro do Vento and the Significance of Monumental Copper Age Sites in Northern Portugal
- 3. The Architecture of the Natural World: Rock Art in North-West Iberia
- Part II. Atlantic France
- 3. The Perception of Space and Geometry: Megalithic Monuments of West-Central France in their Relationship to the Landscape
- 4. Coast and Cosmos: the Neolithic Monuments of Northern Brittany
- Part III. Britain and Ireland
- 5. All Cultural Things: Actual and Conceptual Monuments in the Neolithic of Western Britain
- 6. The Land, the Sky and the Scottish Stone Circle
- 7. Knocknarea: the Ultimate Monument. Megaliths and Mountains in Neiolithic Cuil Irra, North West Ireland
- 7. Megaliths in a Mythologised Landscape: South-west Ireland in the Iron Age
- Part IV. Scandinavia
- 8. Visible Intentions? Viewshed Analysis of Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Western Scania, Sweden
- 9. Conclusion: Long Conversations Concerning Time, Descent and Place in the World
