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Title Monuments and landscape in Atlantic Europe : perception and society during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age / edited by Chris Scarre.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: situating monuments: the dialogue between built form and landform in Atlantic Europe / Chris Scarre -- pt. 1. Atlantic Iberia -- Standing stones and natural outcrops: the role of ritual monuments in the Neolithic transition of the Central Alentejo / Manuel Calado -- Castanheiro do Vento and the significance of monumental Copper and Bronze Age sites in northern Portugal / Vítor Oliveira Jorge [and others] -- Architecture of the natural world: rock art in western Iberia / Lara Bacelar Alves -- pt. 2. Atlantic France -- Perception of space and geometry: megalithic monuments of west-central France in their relationship to the landscape / Luc Laporte, Roger Joussaume, Chris Scarre -- Coast and cosmos: the Neolithic monuments of northern Brittany / Chris Scarre -- pt. 3. Britain and Ireland -- All cultural things: actual and conceptual monuments in the Neolithic of western Britain / Vicki Cummings -- Land, the sky and the Scottish stone circle / Richard Bradley -- Knocknarea: the ultimate monument: megaliths and mountains in Neolithic Cúil Irra, north-west Ireland / Stefan Bergh -- Megaliths in a mythologised landscape: south-west Ireland in the Iron Age / William O'Brien -- pt. 4. Scandinavia -- Visible intentions? Viewshed analysis of Bronze Age burial mounds in western Scania, Sweden / Karin Ericson Lagerås -- Conclusion: long conversations, concerning time, descent and place in the world / Alasdair Whittle.
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Subject Neolithic period -- Europe, Western.
Neolithic period.
Western Europe.
Bronze age -- Europe, Western.
Bronze age.
Megalithic monuments -- Europe, Western.
Megalithic monuments.
Landscape assessment -- Europe, Western.
Landscape assessment.
Europe, Western -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Scarre, Christopher.
Other Form: Print version: Monuments and landscape in Atlantic Europe. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 (DLC) 2001048692
ISBN 0415273145 (Paper)
9780415273145 (Paper)
0203994051 (electronic book)
9780203994054 (electronic book)
0415273137
9780415273138