Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic: Landscapes, Monuments and MemoryArchaeological evidence suggests that Neolithic sites had many different, frequently contradictory functions, and there may have been other uses for which no evidence survives. How can archaeologists present an effective interpetation, with the consciousness that both their own subjectivity, and the variety of conflicting views will determine their approach. |
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Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic: Landscapes, Monuments and Memory Mark Edmonds Limited preview - 2002 |
Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic: Landscape, Monuments and Memory Mark R. Edmonds Limited preview - 1999 |
Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic: Landscapes, Monuments and Memory Mark R. Edmonds No preview available - 1999 |
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ancestral rites animals areas artefacts associations axes banks barrow bones bound boundaries Briar Hill broader brought burial camps Carn Brea cattle causewayed enclosure causeways chalk changes circuits clearings close kin communities cores Crickley Hill cursus dead deposits ditches Dorset earlier Neolithic earth earthworks edge elders enclosures Etton evidence excavation Figure fire flakes flint focus Francis Pryor gathered ground Haddenham Hambledon Hill hand Harrow Hill herds histories ideas important involved kinship Knap Hill labour land landscape long barrows Maiden Castle Mesolithic monuments mound Offham older particular past pastures pattern Peak District people’s lives perhaps pits places pottery practical quarries recognised relations reworked ritual river Roger Mercer routine scale scattered sense settlement shaft significance skull social sometimes sources specific stone stories suggest Sweet Track talk tasks themes thresholds timbers tombs traces turned valley varied Whitehawk Windmill Hill woodland