n.a. (1993). Altering the earth: the origins of monuments in Britain and continental Europe. In: n.e. Altering the Earth: The Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Altering the earth: the origins of monuments in Britain and continental Europe | ||
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Altering the Earth: The Origins of Monuments in Britain and Continental Europe | ||
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series | ||
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150 | ||
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The text of the 1991--92 Rhind Lectures. The first, `Monuments and the natural world', considers the origin of monuments and how they contributed to a new sense of time and place, using the example of megalithic tombs; there seems no reason to suppose that monument building was linked directly to the adoption of agriculture and in certain areas the use of monumental structures may actually have helped to create the conditions for economic change. `Places and human culture' considers how locations where monuments were constructed, which may already have acquired special significance, gained additional importance, and relates this process to the development of monuments using cave deposits, menhirs and rock art. In `Monuments as places' the ways the creation and operation of large monuments affect human perception are considered, using the evidence of stone and earthwork alignments from the west Mediterranean to the British Isles. `Adoption and modification of the stereotyped layout of Neolithic enclosures' by different communities from central Europe to Scandinavia and western France is examined in `Monuments as ideas'. `The logic of monument building' explores ways monument complexes in particular were adapted and renewed in relation to changing social circumstances. The final lecture, `The afterlife of monuments', considers how certain monuments were reinterpreted in the early medieval period, when earlier examples were reused as high status royal sites in the British Isles. | ||
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1993 | ||
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0903903083 | ||
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