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The evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes : from Danubian longhouses to the stone rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland /

At the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are 'symbols' of Neolithic long mounds, a circumstance that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carnes, Alexander (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress, [2014]
Colección:Archaeopress archaeology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Stone Rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland; Chapter 3 The Semantic Structure and Function of the Dartmoor Rows; Chapter 4 Tulach an t-Sionnaich and Battle Moss: A Semiotic Evaluation of a Transition; Chapter 5 Structure, Function, and Motive in the Cairn Clusters of Northern Scotland; Chapter 6 A Theoretical Interlude: People, Adaptation, and Environment; Chapter 7 The Competitive Assertion of Ancestry in Neolithic Sequences; Chapter 8 Two Dartmoor Complexes and Aspects of Landscape Theory; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography.