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| ISBN: | 9781461480273 (electronic bk.)
1461480272 (electronic bk.)
9781461480266
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | This volume provides the results of a 30-year excavation, reconstruction, and public interpretation campaign at the late prehistoric inland promontory settlement of Castell Henllys, here focusing on the defensive sequence and the role of monumentality in later prehistory. The site has international significance because of the extensive excavations of the Iron Age palisaded settlement and later earthen ramparts, complex gateway, and chevaux-de-frise of upright stones. It is now widely recognised that the Iron Age consisted of many regional cultural traditions, and the excavations at Castell Henllys provide a vital contrast to the well-known large hillfort communities in other parts of England and Wales as well as across Europe. As such, it is a unique window into a widespread but largely ignored site category and form of social and economic organisation. The publication will provide a case study for the construction and use of the earthworks of a major European late prehistoric settlement type - the Iron Age hillfort; the monumental construction is compared with other communal investments such as the Mississippian mounds. It will also offer an innovative form of site reporting, including alternative interpretations of the earthworks as either military defences or the community-binding symbols.
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| Other form: | Print version: Mytum, Harold. Monumentality in Later Prehistory : Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort. Dordrecht : Springer, ©2013 9781461480266
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-1-4614-8027-3
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