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Neolithic Horizons: Monuments and Changing Communities in the Wessex Landscape
David Field
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Description for Neolithic Horizons: Monuments and Changing Communities in the Wessex Landscape
Paperback. An expert analysis of how many of our great Neolithic monuments influenced the landscape and communities that built up around them Num Pages: 192 pages, 70 illustrations, 40 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1QDA; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Neolithic Horizons investigates some of our most remarkable and iconic archaeological sites: the great public monuments at Stonehenge and Avebury and others like them and places them within their landscape context-the rolling chalklands of Wessex. Rightly famous the world over, these monuments are complemented by less well-known, contemporary, foci such as the earthen circles at Knowlton, in Dorset, or Marden, in Wiltshire and seen to be part of an earth-shifting tradition that extended right across the region and traced back to our very earliest monuments, long barrows and causewayed enclosures. After Stonehenge, the tradition continued with the construction of ... Read more
Neolithic Horizons investigates some of our most remarkable and iconic archaeological sites: the great public monuments at Stonehenge and Avebury and others like them and places them within their landscape context-the rolling chalklands of Wessex. Rightly famous the world over, these monuments are complemented by less well-known, contemporary, foci such as the earthen circles at Knowlton, in Dorset, or Marden, in Wiltshire and seen to be part of an earth-shifting tradition that extended right across the region and traced back to our very earliest monuments, long barrows and causewayed enclosures. After Stonehenge, the tradition continued with the construction of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781552995
SKU
V9781781552995
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About David Field
As Archaeological Investigators for the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England and subsequently English Heritage, the authors spent well over 20 years working on the archaeological landscapes of southern England. During that time all the major monuments of the Neolithic period were investigated, Avebury, Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, and their particular brand of earthwork analysis and landscape investigation provides a ... Read more
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