ABSTRACT
This chapter and the next chapter examine the different ways that people’s relations with land and sky shaped places through processes of landmarking, including monuments, rock art and field systems. The monuments of the mid-third millennium BC gathered people, things and substances from long distances, and shaped kinship through vast communal labour projects and rituals. The twenty-second century BC brought processes of dispersal and localisation in landmarking, with monuments becoming part of people’s daily lives and positioned within communities. In making monuments, marking rock and acknowledging places, people were making kin between themselves and with other selves who inhabited the land and sky.
