Mark Patton

Statements in Stone (eBook, ePUB)

Monuments and Society in Neolithic Brittany

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The megalithic monuments of Western Europe cover a period of over 2,000 years, from the earliest neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age, and have excited the popular imagination for centuries. Based on the evidence of recent excavations, and the most up-to-date and controversial theoretical perspectives of archaeology, Statements in Stone is the first account to put the megalithic traditions of Brittany in a social context and to develop a social model to account for their emergence and development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134918089
• Artikelnr.: 47889083

Autorenporträt

Mark Patton

Inhaltsangabe

1 MEGALITHS AND SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION 2 CENTRES OF PRODUCTION AND
SPHERES OF INTERACTION Stone axe exchange in the Armorican Neolithic 3 LONG
MOUNDS AND GIANT MENHIRS Ritual landscapes of the first farmers 4 MONUMENTS
IN A COASTAL LANDSCAPE Passage graves of the Armorican Littoral 5
STATEMENTS OF POWER AND SYMBOLS OF WEALTH The great mounds and alignments
of the Carnac region 6 LAND FOR THE LIVING, TOMBS FOR THE DEAD Burial
monuments of the Late Neolithic 7 SEALING THE TOMBS The abandonment of
megaliths 8 CONCLUSION: RITUAL LANDSCAPES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE
ARMORICAN NEOLITHIC