Statements in stone : monuments and society in Neolithic Brittany / Mark Patton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patton, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--France--Brittany.

Neolithic period.

Megalithic monuments--France--Brittany.

Megalithic monuments.

Brittany (France)--Antiquities.

Brittany (France).

Physical Description:

xiv, 209 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The megalithic monuments of Western Europe cover a period of over 2,000 years, from the earliest neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age, and have excited the popular imagination for centuries. Based on the evidence of recent excavations, and the most up-to-date and controversial theoretical perspectives of archaeology, Statements in Stone is the first account to put the megalithic traditions of Brittany in a social context and to develop a social model to account for their emergence and development.

Contents:

chapter 1 MEGALITHS AND SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION

chapter 2 CENTRES OF PRODUCTION AND SPHERES OF INTERACTION

Stone axe exchange in the Armorican Neolithic

chapter 3 LONG MOUNDS AND GIANT MENHIRS

Ritual landscapes of the first farmers

chapter 4 MONUMENTS IN A COASTAL LANDSCAPE

Passage graves of the Armorican Littoral

chapter 5 STATEMENTS OF POWER AND SYMBOLS OF WEALTH

The great mounds and alignments of the Carnac region

chapter 6 LAND FOR THE LIVING, TOMBS FOR THE DEAD

Burial monuments of the Late Neolithic

chapter 7 SEALING THE TOMBS

The abandonment of megaliths

chapter 8 CONCLUSION: RITUAL LANDSCAPES AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE ARMORICAN NEOLITHIC.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-91808-9

1-138-86207-X

1-134-91809-7

1-280-31669-1

0-203-51399-1

9780203513996

OCLC:

277639649