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"Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognised the family resemblance of the different groups of tombs, attributing them to maritime peoples moving along the western seaways. More recent research sees them rather as the product of established early farming communities in their individual regions. Yet the diversity of the tombs, their chronologies and their varied cultural contexts complicates any straightforward understanding of their origins and distribution. Megalithic Architectures provides new insight by focusing on the construction and design of European megalithic tombs--on the tomb as an architectural project. It shows how much is to be learned from detailed attention to the stages and the techniques through which tombs were built, modified and enlarged, and often intentionally dismantled or decommissioned. The large slabs that were employed, often unshaped, may suggest an opportunistic approach by the Neolithic builders, but this was clearly far from the case. Each building project was unique, and detailed study of individual sites exposes the way in which tombs were built as architectural, social and symbolic undertakings. Alongside the manner in which the materials were used, it reveals a store of knowledge that sometimes differed considerably from one structure to another, even between contemporary monuments within a single region. The volume brings together regional specialists from Scandinavia, Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Iberia to offer a series of uniquely authoritative studies. Results of recent fieldwork are fully incorporated and much of the material is published here for the first time in English. It provides an invaluable overview of the current state of research on European megalithic tombs"--From publisher's website.
Megalithic monuments --- Tombs --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Architecture, Prehistoric --- Neolithic period --- Prehistoric architecture --- Europe --- Antiquities. --- Architecture, Primitive
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"Breaking the Surface will be a disruption to traditional archaeological approaches to the prehistoric past. Having performed fieldwork on the early Neolithic pit-houses of southeastern Europe for over 20 years, the author aims to confront a major development in human history--digging, or the creation of holes. The book begins with a detailed examination of the extant remains of Neolithic pit-houses, the roofed dugout structures that are the earliest evidence for settled habitation in Europe. Rather than seek confirmation for what has already been theorized about their use (e.g., housing, storage, refuse), the author turns to the more specific actions of the people who dug these holes in the surface, and, more critically, to the consequences that those prehistoric actions had on those people's understanding of their place(s) in their ground worlds: how digging into the surface altered their perspectives of themselves and others, and of their world and of other worlds beyond the material and visible. The book turns to how scholars in other disciplines, such as philosophy and linguistic anthropology, have been asking similar questions about holes and the consequences of breaking and cutting. The resulting book offers comprehensive discussions of the philosophy of holes and perforations (particularly the paradox of a hole - does it exist, is it beyond materiality?), the linguistic anthropology of cut- and break-words (what diversity exists in the ways that extant communities talk and think about perforations and perforating), and the perceptual psychology of concavities (the case that holes attract our visual attentions)"--
Dwellings, Prehistoric --- Pit houses --- Architecture, Prehistoric --- Neolithic period --- Art, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric architecture --- Prehistoric dwellings --- Architecture, Primitive
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Architecture, Prehistoric --- Neolithic period --- Prehistoric architecture --- Middle East --- Antiquities. --- Architecture, Primitive
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The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard Bradley sheds light on this complex period and the changing consciousness of these prehistoric peoples. The Significance of Monuments studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation over six thousand years later. Part One discusses how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new sens
Neolithic period --- Bronze age --- Megalithic monuments --- Architecture, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric architecture --- Europe --- Antiquities. --- Architecture, Primitive
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Architecture, Prehistoric --- Copper age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Lemba Lakkous Site (Cyprus). --- Cyprus --- Antiquities. --- Lemba Lakkous Site (Cyprus) --- Chalcolithic age --- Copper-stone age --- Cyprolithic age --- Eneolithic age --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Civilization --- Prehistoric architecture --- Architecture, Primitive
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Philosophical anthropology --- Megalithic monuments --- Architecture, Prehistoric --- Petroglyphs --- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric --- Carvings, Rock --- Engravings, Rock --- Rock carvings --- Rock engravings --- Rock inscriptions --- Stone inscriptions --- Inscriptions --- Picture-writing --- Rock paintings --- Cyclopean remains --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Monuments --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric land settlement patterns --- Prehistoric architecture --- Architecture, Primitive
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Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Architecture, Prehistoric --- Copper age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric --- Neolithic period --- Turkey --- Antiquities. --- New Stone age --- Prehistoric land settlement patterns --- Prehistoric architecture --- Prehistoric agriculture --- Prehistoric peoples --- Chalcolithic age --- Copper-stone age --- Cyprolithic age --- Eneolithic age --- Agriculture --- Stone age --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Civilization --- Food --- Architecture, Primitive
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Architecture, Prehistoric --- -Architecture, Prehistoric --- -Copper age --- -Excavations (Archaeology) --- -Neolithic period --- -New Stone age --- Stone age --- Chalcolithic age --- Copper-stone age --- Cyprolithic age --- Eneolithic age --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Civilization --- Prehistoric architecture --- Europe --- Middle East --- Antiquities. --- Copper age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Neolithic period --- Europe. --- -Europe --- -Chalcolithic age --- New Stone age --- Architecture, Primitive
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This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. This book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, which were all ritualized in prehistoric Europe.
Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric --- Architecture, Prehistoric --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Tools, Prehistoric --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Implements, Prehistoric --- Implements, utensils, etc., Prehistoric --- Prehistoric implements --- Prehistoric tools --- Prehistoric agriculture --- Prehistoric peoples --- Prehistoric architecture --- Prehistoric rites and ceremonies --- Agriculture --- Food --- Architecture, Primitive
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