Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill and David Field.
Material type: TextSeries: Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 10.Publication details: Oxford, U.K. ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2010Description: xii, 260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)ISBN: 9781842178034 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Mounds -- Great Britain -- Congresses | Monuments -- Great Britain -- Congresses | Neolithic period -- Great Britain -- Congresses | Mounds -- Congresses | Monuments -- Congresses | Neolithic period -- Congresses | Antiquities -- Congresses | Great Britain -- Antiquities -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 936.1 LOC classification: GN805.A2 | R68 2010Online resources: Click to ViewPapers from a seminar held Nov. 3, 2008 at the British Museum.
Includes bibliographical references.
Design, geometry, and the metamorphosis of monuments / David Field -- " --a place where they tried their criminals" : Neolithic round mounds in Perth and Kinross / Kenneth Brophy -- Scotland's Neolithic non-megalithic round mounds : new dates, problems, and potential / Alison Sheridan -- Tynwald Hill and the round mounds of the Isle of Man / Timothy Darvill -- Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the upper Great Wold Valley, Yorkshire / Alex Gibson and Alex Bayliss -- "One of the most interesting barrows ever examined" : Liffs Low revisited / Roy Loveday and Alistair Barclay -- Neolithic round barrows on the Cotswolds / Timothy Darvill -- Silbury Hill : a monument in motion / Jim Leary -- The brood of Silbury? : a remote look at some other sizeable Wessex mounds / Martyn Barber ... [et al.] -- The mystery of the hill / Jonathan Last -- The formative henge : speculations drawn from the circular traditions of Wales and adjacent counties / Steve Burrow -- Monumentality and inclusion in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland / Geraldine Stout -- Round mounds containing portal tombs / Tatjana Kytmannow -- Native American mound building traditions / Peter Topping -- The round mound is not a monument / Tim Ingold.
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