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      Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe
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      Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe

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      Perception and Society During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

      Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe

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      Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe book

      Perception and Society During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
      Edited ByChris Scarre
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2002
      eBook Published 18 April 2002
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203994054
      Pages 224
      eBook ISBN 9780203994054
      Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Scarre, C. (Ed.). (2002). Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe: Perception and Society During the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203994054

      ABSTRACT

      Atlantic Europe is the zone par excellence of megalithic monuments, which encompass a wide range of earthen and stone constructions from inpressive stone circles to modest chambered tombs. A single basic concept lies behind this volume - that the intrinsic qualities encountered within the diverse landscapes pf Atlantic Europe both informed the settings chosen for the monuments and played a role in determining their form and visual appearance. Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe goes significantly beyond the limits of existing debate by inviting archaeologists from different countries with the Atlantic zone (including Britain, France, Ireland, Spain and Sweden) to examine the relationship between landscape features and prehistoric monuments in their specialist regions. By placing the issue within a broader regional and intellectual context, the authors illustrate the diversity of current archaeological ideas and approaches converging around this central theme.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|14 pages

      Introduction: situating monuments

      The dialogue between built form and landform in Atlantic Europe
      ByChris Scarre

      part |2 pages

      PART I Atlantic Iberia

      chapter 2|19 pages

      Standing stones and natural outcrops

      The role of ritual monuments in the Neolithic transition of the Central Alentejo
      ByManuel Calado

      chapter 3|15 pages

      Castanheiro do Vento and the significance of monumental Copper and Bronze Age sites in northern Portugal

      ByVítor Oliveira Jorge, João Muralha Cardoso

      chapter 4|19 pages

      The architecture of the natural world: rock art in western Iberia

      ByLara Bacelar Alves

      part |2 pages

      PART II Atlantic France

      chapter 5|11 pages

      The perception of space and geometry

      Megalithic monuments of west-central France in their relationship to the landscape
      ByLuc Laporte, Roger Joussaume, Chris Scarre

      chapter 6|19 pages

      Coast and cosmos

      The Neolithic monuments of northern Brittany
      ByChris Scarre

      chapter |3 pages

      PART III Britain and Ireland

      chapter 7|15 pages

      All cultural things

      Actual and conceptual monuments in the Neolithic of western Britain
      ByVicki Cummings

      chapter 8|17 pages

      The land, the sky and the Scottish stone circle

      ByRichard Bradley

      chapter 9|13 pages

      Knocknarea: the ultimate monument

      Megaliths and mountains in Neolithic Cúil Irra, north-west Ireland
      ByStefan Bergh

      chapter 10|25 pages

      Megaliths in a mythologised landscape

      South-west Ireland in the Iron Age
      ByWilliam O’Brien

      part |2 pages

      PART IV Scandinavia

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Visible intentions?

      Viewshed analysis of Bronze Age burial mounds in western Scania, Sweden
      ByKarin Ericson Lagerås

      chapter 12|13 pages

      Conclusion: long conversations, concerning time, descent and place in the world

      ByAlasdair Whittle
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