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 | | The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe by Richard Bradley ISBN-10: 0415152038 ISBN-10: 0-415-15203-8 ISBN-13: 9780415152037 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-15203-7 Hardcover 1998-03-18 Routledge Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments--including Stonehenge-- were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Students of prehistory have long found the highly theoretical interpretations of the period perplexing and contradictory. 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 to six thousand years later. The book begins with a discussion of how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new sense of time and space among the inhabitants of prehistoric Europe. The second part goes on to study how such monuments were modified and reinterpreted to suit the changing needs of society through a series of detailed case studies. | ||
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The significance of monuments The author explores the 'human experience of time and place' from the Later Mesolithic Period through the transformations in the archaeological record that occur in many areas during the Bronze Age. His contention is people's involvement with monuments was central to the creation of new senses of time and place, and that this helped in the transition to new types of settlements and agriculture. Interesting ideas but to this reviewer the reasons the author gives that the "sacred place" gave rise to settlement and agricultural sites instead of the chronology occurring the other way around or simultaneously are in the end not completely convincing. An interesting book short yet well written and full of illustrations. Recommended | ||