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



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Titolo: Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond / / edited by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill and David Field Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, U.K. ; ; Oakville, Conn., : Oxbow Books, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
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
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ISBN: 1-84217-801-6
1-84217-803-2
1-299-48514-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; ; 10.