The significance of monuments [[electronic resource] ] : on the shaping of human experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe / / Richard Bradley

• Autore: Bradley Richard <1946->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 936
• Soggetto topico: Neolithic period - Europe; Bronze age - Europe; Megalithic monuments - Europe; Architecture, Prehistoric - Europe
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Antiquities
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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 ; Part 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
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The significance of monuments
• ISBN: 1-134-74483-8; 1-280-33190-9; 0-203-02471-0; 0-203-15950-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782201303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II