LEADER 03691nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910782201303321 005 20230607222037.0 010 $a1-134-74483-8 010 $a1-280-33190-9 010 $a0-203-02471-0 010 $a0-203-15950-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000520585 035 $a(EBL)165447 035 $a(OCoLC)70741897 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000245868 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237212 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245868 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10177168 035 $a(PQKB)10777443 035 $aebr5001278 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165447 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL165447 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10070800 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL33190 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000520585 100 $a19970620e20011998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe significance of monuments$b[electronic resource] $eon the shaping of human experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe /$fRichard Bradley 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-15204-6 311 $a0-415-15203-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index. 327 $aCover; The Significance of Monuments: On the shaping of human experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Part I From the house of the dead; Chapter I Structures of sand: Settlements, monuments and the nature of the Neolithic; Chapter 2 Thinking the Neolithic: The Mesolithic world view and its transformation; Chapter 3 The death of the house: The origins of long mounds and Neolithic enclosures; Chapter 4 Another time: Architecture, ancestry and the development of chambered tombs; Chapter 5 Small worlds: Causewayed enclosures and their transformations 327 $aPart II Describing a circleChapter 6 The persistence of memory: Ritual, time and the history of ceremonial monuments; Chapter 7 The public interest: Ritual and ceremonial, from passage graves to henges; Chapter 8 Theatre in the round: Henge monuments, stone circles and their integration with the landscape; Chapter 9 Closed circles: The changing character of monuments, from enclosures to cemeteries; Chapter 10 An agricultural revolution: The domestication of ritual life during later prehistory; References; Index 330 $aThe Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard Bradley sheds light on this complex period and the changing consciousness of these prehistoric peoples. The Significance of Monuments studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation over six thousand years later. Part One discusses how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new sens 606 $aNeolithic period$zEurope 606 $aBronze age$zEurope 606 $aMegalithic monuments$zEurope 606 $aArchitecture, Prehistoric$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xAntiquities 615 0$aNeolithic period 615 0$aBronze age 615 0$aMegalithic monuments 615 0$aArchitecture, Prehistoric 676 $a936 700 $aBradley$b Richard$f1946-$0477531 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782201303321 996 $aThe significance of monuments$93771890 997 $aUNINA