| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Archaeopress archaeology |
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Archaeopress archaeology
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| Contents |
Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Stone Rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland; Chapter 3 The Semantic Structure and Function of the Dartmoor Rows; Chapter 4 Tulach an t-Sionnaich and Battle Moss: A Semiotic Evaluation of a Transition; Chapter 5 Structure, Function, and Motive in the Cairn Clusters of Northern Scotland; Chapter 6 A Theoretical Interlude: People, Adaptation, and Environment; Chapter 7 The Competitive Assertion of Ancestry in Neolithic Sequences; Chapter 8 Two Dartmoor Complexes and Aspects of Landscape Theory; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography |
| Summary |
At the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are 'symbols' of Neolithic long mounds, a circumstance that accounts for the interregional similarities; other aspects of their semantic structures are also analysed using rigorous semiotic theory. The research presented here takes an evolutionary approach, drawing on biological theory to explain the active role of these monuments in social evolution and to investigate the processes at work in the development of prehistoric landscapes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 16, 2016) |
| Subject |
Leys -- England -- Dartmoor
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Leys -- Scotland
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Longhouses -- England -- Dartmoor
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Longhouses -- Scotland
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Dartmoor (England) -- Antiquities
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Leys
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Longhouses
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118806
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| Subject |
England -- Dartmoor
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Scotland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Archaeopress, publisher
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| ISBN |
1784910015 |
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9781784910013 |
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