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Cover 1 The Significance of Monuments: On the shaping of human experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 Figures 10 Preface 12 Part I From the house of the dead 14 Chapter I Structures of sand: Settlements, monuments and the nature of the Neolithic 16 Chapter 2 Thinking the Neolithic: The Mesolithic world view and its transformation 33 Chapter 3 The death of the house: The origins of long mounds and Neolithic enclosures 49 Chapter 4 Another time: Architecture, ancestry and the development of chambered tombs 64 Chapter 5 Small worlds: Causewayed enclosures and their transformations 81 Part II Describing a circle 96 Chapter 6 The persistence of memory: Ritual, time and the history of ceremonial monuments 98 Chapter 7 The public interest: Ritual and ceremonial, from passage graves to henges 114 Chapter 8 Theatre in the round: Henge monuments, stone circles and their integration with the landscape 129 Chapter 9 Closed circles: The changing character of monuments, from enclosures to cemeteries 145 Chapter 10 An agricultural revolution: The domestication of ritual life during later prehistory 160 References 178 Index 190

Author

Richard Bradley

Published

2006

Language

EN