Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill and David Field

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, U.K. ; ; Oakville, Conn., : Oxbow Books, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 936.1
• Soggetto topico: Mounds - Great Britain; Monuments - Great Britain; Neolithic period - Great Britain; Mounds; Monuments; Neolithic period; Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Antiquities Congresses
• Altri autori: LearyJim DarvillTimothy FieldDavid <1950->
• Note generali: Papers from a seminar held Nov. 3, 2008 at the British Museum.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond
• ISBN: 1-84217-801-6; 1-84217-803-2; 1-299-48514-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786219703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; ; 10.