Round Mounds and Monumentality in the British Neolithic and Beyond.

Round Mounds and Monumentality in the British Neolithic and Beyond.

This volume, the tenth published collection of seminar papers from the Neolithic Studies Group, is based upon a conference that took place at the British Museum in November 2008. The meeting aimed to consider the chronology and development of Neolithic round mounds; their changing form and use; thei...

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Main Author: Leary, Jim
Other Authors: Darvill, Timothy, Field, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2010.
Subjects:
Mounds > Great Britain > Congresses.
Monuments > Great Britain > Congresses.
Neolithic period > Great Britain > Congresses.
Antiquities > Congresses.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Antiquities
Monuments
Mounds
Neolithic period
Great Britain > Antiquities > Congresses.
Great Britain
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Design, geometry, and the metamorphosis of monuments; 2 " ... a place where they tried their criminals": Neolithic round moundsin Perth and Kinross; 3 Scotland's Neolithic non-megalithic round mounds: new dates, problems, and potential; 4 Tynwald Hill and the round mounds of the Isle of Man; 5 Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the upperGreat Wold Valley, Yorkshire; 6 "One of the most interesting barrows ever examined"
  • Liffs Low revisited; 7 Neolithic round barrows on the Cotswolds.
  • 8 Silbury Hill: a monument in motion9 The Brood of Silbury? A remote look at some other sizeableWessex mounds; 10 The Mystery of the Hill; 11 The formative henge: speculations drawn from the circular traditionsof Wales and adjacent counties; 12 Monumentality and inclusion in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland; 13 Round mounds containing portal tombs; 14 Native American mound building traditions; 15 The round mound is not a monument; Colour Plates.

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