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Title Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Jim Leary, Timothy Darvill and David Field.

Imprint Oxford, U.K. ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2010.

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Description xii, 260 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
Series Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 10
Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 10.
Note Papers from a seminar held Nov. 3, 2008 at the British Museum.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Design, geometry, and the metamorphosis of monuments / David Field -- " --a place where they tried their criminals" : Neolithic round mounds in Perth and Kinross / Kenneth Brophy -- Scotland's Neolithic non-megalithic round mounds : new dates, problems, and potential / Alison Sheridan -- Tynwald Hill and the round mounds of the Isle of Man / Timothy Darvill -- Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the upper Great Wold Valley, Yorkshire / Alex Gibson and Alex Bayliss -- "One of the most interesting barrows ever examined" : Liffs Low revisited / Roy Loveday and Alistair Barclay -- Neolithic round barrows on the Cotswolds / Timothy Darvill -- Silbury Hill : a monument in motion / Jim Leary -- The brood of Silbury? : a remote look at some other sizeable Wessex mounds / Martyn Barber ... [et al.] -- The mystery of the hill / Jonathan Last -- The formative henge : speculations drawn from the circular traditions of Wales and adjacent counties / Steve Burrow -- Monumentality and inclusion in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland / Geraldine Stout -- Round mounds containing portal tombs / Tatjana Kytmannow -- Native American mound building traditions / Peter Topping -- The round mound is not a monument / Tim Ingold.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Mounds -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Monuments -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Neolithic period -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Mounds -- Congresses.
Monuments -- Congresses.
Neolithic period -- Congresses.
Antiquities -- Congresses.
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Leary, Jim.
Darvill, Timothy.
Field, David, 1950-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781842174043 (pbk.)
1842174045 (pbk.)
9781842178034 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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