Landscapes of neolithic Brittany
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Landscapes of neolithic Brittany
Oxford University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-318) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Brittany has long been famous for its Neolithic monuments, which include the largest prehistoric standing stone ever to have been erected in Western Europe, and the spectacular Carnac alignments. How and by whom were they built? This fully illustrated study aims to answer those questions using the results of recent French research on these sites, along with the insights provided by the author's own field studies. The emphasis is on the landscape setting of these
monuments, and how that landscape may have influenced or inspired the construction of megalithic tombs and settings of standing stones. The development of the monuments is set within a chronological narrative, from the last hunter-gatherers of the late 6th millennium BC and the arrival of the first
farmers, down to the end of the Neolithic period 3000 years later.
Table of Contents
- 1. The study of Neolithic Brittany
- 2. Peopling the landscape: perspectives from historical geography
- 3. All change please? The Neolithic transition in Brittany
- 4. The first monuments
- 5. The Carnac landscape
- 6. At the edges of the world: the Brittany passage graves
- 7. Bodies of evidence
- 8. Stone settings and sacred landscapes: three case-studies
- 9. The domestication of monuments: Brittany in the Later Neolithic
- 10. Power and place: connecting with the land
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