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1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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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.
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Neolithic period. |
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Western Europe. |
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Bronze age -- Europe, Western.
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Bronze age. |
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Megalithic monuments -- Europe, Western.
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Megalithic monuments. |
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Landscape assessment -- Europe, Western.
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Landscape assessment. |
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Europe, Western -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Scarre, Christopher.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Monuments and landscape in Atlantic Europe. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 (DLC) 2001048692 |
ISBN |
0415273145 (Paper) |
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9780415273145 (Paper) |
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0203994051 (electronic book) |
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9780203994054 (electronic book) |
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0415273137 |
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9780415273138 |
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