Interpreting landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : geologies, topographies, identities / / Christopher Tilley

• Autore: Tilley Christopher Y
• Pubblicazione: Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (538 p.)
• Disciplina: 936.2
• Soggetto topico: Megalithic monuments - Great Britain; Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - Great Britain; Architecture, Prehistoric - Great Britain; Landscape archaeology - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Antiquities
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Part I: Interpreting Landscapes; 1. Outline of a Phenomenological Perspective; 2. The Neolithic Sensory Revolution; Part II: Chalk Country; 3. Stonehenge's Architecture and Landscape; 4. Round Barrows and Cross Dykes as Landscape Metaphors; 5. The Beach in the Sky; Part III: From Pebbles to Sandstone and Slate; 6. Sensory Experience on the East Devon Pebblebeds; 7. Stalking with Stones on Exmoor; Part IV: Granite; 8. Landscapes and Power on Bodmin Moor; 9. Supernatural Places in West Penwith; 10. Conclusions; References; Index ; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long durée. Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic resources for human settlement and require forms of social engagement. Taking his finding
• Titolo autorizzato: Interpreting landscapes
• ISBN: 1-315-42628-5; 1-315-42629-3; 1-59874-657-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781017203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Explorations in landscape phenomenology ; ; 3.