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  The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe (Paperback) By (author) Richard Bradley

  

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  Short Description for The Significance of Monuments The text studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation to over 6000 years later. Part one discusses how monuments first developed, and part two studies how such monuments were modified and reinterpreted to suit the changing needs of society.
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  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
  • Published: 01 April 1998
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Religious Subjects Depicted In Art | Memorials, Monuments | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology | Prehistoric Archaeology
  • ISBN 13: 9780415152044 ISBN 10: 0415152046
  • Sales rank: 596,187

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• 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 book studies the importance of monuments tracing their history from their first creation to over 6000 years later. Part one discusses how monuments first developed and their role in developing a new sense of time and space among the inhabitants of prehistoric Europe. Other features of the prehistoric landscape - such as mounds and enclosures - across continental Europe are also examined. Part two studies how such monuments were modified and reinterpreted to suit the changing needs of society through a series of detailed case studies.