The Significance of Monuments

On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe

By: Richard Bradley

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Paperback | 26 February 1998 | Edition Number 1

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The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments - including Stonehenge - were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the Mesolithic and carrying his analysis through to the Late Bronze Age, Richard Bradley sheds light on this complex period and the changing consciousness of these prehistoric peoples.
The Significance of Monuments studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation over six thousand years later. Part One discusses how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new sense of time and space among the inhabitants of prehistoric Europe. Other features of the prehistoric landscape - such as mounds and enclosures - across Continental Europe are also examined. Part Two studies how such monuments were modified and reinterpreted to suit the changing needs of society through a series of detailed case studies.
The Significance of Monuments is an indispensable text for all students of European prehistory. It is also an enlightening read for professional archaeologists and all those interested in this fascinating period.

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List of Figures Preface
From the House of the Dead
Structures of Sand: Settlements, Monuments and the Nature of the Neolithic
Thinking the Neolithic: the Mesolithic World View and its Transformation
The Death of the House: the Origins of Long Mounds and Neolithic Enclosures
Another Time: Architecure, Ancestry and the Development of Chambered Tombs
Small Worlds: Causewayed Enclosures and their Transformations
Describing a Circle
The Persistence of Memory: Ritual, Time and the History of Ceremonial Monuments
The Public Interest: Ritual and Ceremonial, from Passage Graves to Henges
Theatre in the Round: Henge Monuments, Stone Circles and their Integration with the Landscape
Closed Circles: the Changing Character of Monuments, from Enclosures to Cemeteries
An Agricultural Revolution: the Domestication of Ritual Life during later Prehistory
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