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UNINA9910786219703321 |
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Titolo |
Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill and David Field |
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Oxford, U.K. ; ; Oakville, Conn., : Oxbow Books, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-84217-801-6 |
1-84217-803-2 |
1-299-48514-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Collana |
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Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; ; 10 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LearyJim |
DarvillTimothy |
FieldDavid <1950-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mounds - Great Britain |
Monuments - Great Britain |
Neolithic period - Great Britain |
Mounds |
Monuments |
Neolithic period |
Antiquities |
Great Britain Antiquities Congresses |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers from a seminar held Nov. 3, 2008 at the British Museum. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Design, geometry, and the metamorphosis of monuments / David Field -- " --a place where they tried their criminals" : Neolithic round mounds in Perth and Kinross / Kenneth Brophy -- Scotland's Neolithic non-megalithic round mounds : new dates, problems, and potential / Alison Sheridan -- Tynwald Hill and the round mounds of the Isle of Man / Timothy Darvill -- Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the upper Great Wold Valley, Yorkshire / Alex Gibson and Alex Bayliss -- "One of the most interesting barrows ever examined" : Liffs Low revisited / Roy Loveday and Alistair Barclay -- Neolithic round barrows on the Cotswolds / Timothy Darvill -- Silbury Hill : a |
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monument in motion / Jim Leary -- The brood of Silbury? : a remote look at some other sizeable Wessex mounds / Martyn Barber ... [et al.] -- The mystery of the hill / Jonathan Last -- The formative henge : speculations drawn from the circular traditions of Wales and adjacent counties / Steve Burrow -- Monumentality and inclusion in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland / Geraldine Stout -- Round mounds containing portal tombs / Tatjana Kytmannow -- Native American mound building traditions / Peter Topping -- The round mound is not a monument / Tim Ingold. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume, the tenth published collection of seminar papers from the Neolithic Studies Group, is based upon a conference that took place at the British Museum in November 2008. The meeting aimed to consider the chronology and development of Neolithic round mounds; their changing form and use; their relationships to contemporary cultural, ancestral and natural landscapes; the extent to which they provide scope for identifying local and regional social organization; and, not least, why they were round. Following the conference, further papers were offered for this edited volume, widening and b |
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