Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland

Name: Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland
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ISBN: 9780500286661

ISBN-10: 0500286663

ISBN-13: 9780500286661

Edition: 2007

Authors: Chris Scarre

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An authoritative overview of the wide range of British and Irish Neolithic monuments. From Stonehenge to Newgrange, some of the most varied megalithic monuments in Europe can be found in the British Isles. From the Neolithic Age and the arrival of pottery and farming some 6,000 years ago to the beginning of the Bronze Age, people used megaliths ("large stones"), earth, and wood to build grandiose monuments. The number and sheer diversity of these structures is astonishing, from massive stone rows and circles to barrows, chambered tombs, and earthwork enclosures. Henges and cursus monuments, which often lacked stone elements, also belong to the same general category of monumental…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Monuments, society & landscape


Mesolithic Britain and the Continent


The nature of the 'Neolithic transition'


Monuments and the Neolithic


Monuments in their social context


Landscape and monuments


Scanning the heavens



Scotland


Earth and timber monuments


Southwest Scotland


Argyll and Arran


The Western Isles


Orkney


Tombs and houses


Manipulating the dead


Prehistoric politics


Clava Cairns and recumbent stone circles



England & Wales


Portal dolmens and passage graves


Chambered long mounds


Unchambered long mounds


Later Neolithic burials


Henges and cursus monuments


Stone and timber circles



Avebury & Stonehenge


A 4th-millennium BC landscape


Avebury in the 3rd millennium


Stonehenge



Ireland


Classifying the tombs


Court cairns


Portal tombs


Passage tombs


The Boyne valley complex


Linkardstown cists, wedge tombs and boulder burials


Stone settings and earthen rings



Neolithic monuments in their European setting


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Sources of illustrations


Index