ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a reworking of those on-the-spot interpretations and observations, a personal attempt to make sense of what was initially totally distant and alien to us. It makes a series of interpretative remarks with relation to the entirety of the Breton Neolithic, attempting to cover a period which spans roughly 2500 years. The chapter shows the manner in which three very different types of archaeological evidence – architectural form, art and portable artefacts –can be seen to be consistently linked to form a ramifying network of symbolic structures. These structures we argue formed part and parcel of the manner in which Neolithic communities in Brittany made sense of and ordered their world while simultaneously serving as vehicles to legitimize social power and domination.
