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Architecture and linear measurement during the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia
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ISBN: 0860549445 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford : Hedges,

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The megalithic architectures of Europe
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ISBN: 9781785700149 9781785700156 1785700154 9781785700170 1785700170 9781785700163 1785700162 1785700146 178925809X Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford

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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.


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Breaking the surface : an art/archaeology of prehistoric architecture
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ISBN: 9780190611880 9780190611873 019061188X Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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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)"--

Der kontextuelle Raum im vorderasiatischen Neolithikum : die Entwicklung der Lehmarchitektur, die Sozio-Ökonomie des Bauens und Wohnens und die kulturelle Organisation des architektonischen Raums.
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ISBN: 1407300512 9781407300511 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford Hedges

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The significance of monuments
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ISBN: 1280331909 0203024710 0203159500 9780203159507 9780203024713 9780415152037 0415152038 9780415152044 0415152046 0415152038 0415152046 9781134744794 9781134744831 9781134744848 1134744838 1134744846 113474479X Year: 1998 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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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

The prehistoric buildings of Chalcolithic Cyprus : the Lemba Experimental Village
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ISBN: 1841717274 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford : John and Erica Hedges Ltd.,


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ISBN: 9781598743142 9781598743135 1598743147 1598743139 Year: 2008 Volume: 2 Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast,


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The neolithic and early chalcolithic farmers of central and southwest Anatolia : household, community and the changing use of space.
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ISBN: 1841718718 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress

Aspekte prähistorischer Grundrissgestaltung in Vorderasien : Beiträge zum Verständnis bestimmter Grundrissmerkmale in ausgewählten neolitischen und chalkolitischen Siedlungen des 9.-4. Jahrtausends v. Chr. (mit Beispielen aus der europäischen Prähistorie).
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ISBN: 3805312830 Year: 1991 Publisher: Mainz am Rhein von Zabern

Ritual and domestic life in prehistoric Europe
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ISBN: 1134282567 1280150793 0203023714 9780203023716 9780415345507 0415345502 9780415345514 0415345510 9786610150793 6610150796 0203567048 9780203567043 0415345510 0415345502 0415235510 9781134282562 9781280150791 9781134282517 9781134282555 1134282559 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Routledge

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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.

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