| Description |
1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The story of Neolithic Brittany -- Peopling the landscape : perspectives from historical geography -- All change please? The Neolithic transition in Brittany -- The first monuments -- The Carnac landscape -- At the edges of the world : the Brittany passage graves -- Bodies of evidence -- Stone settings and sacred landscapes: the case-studies -- The domestication of monuments: Brittany during the later Neolithic -- Power and place : connecting with the land |
| Summary |
Brittany has long been famous for its Neolithic monuments, which include the largest prehistoric standing stone ever to have been erected in Western Europe, and the spectacular Carnac alignments. How and by whom were they built? This fully illustrated study aims to answer those questions using the results of recent French research on these sites, along with the insights provided by field studies. The emphasis is on the landscape setting of these monuments, and how that landscape may have influenced or inspired the construction of megalithic tombs and settings of standing stones |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Neolithic period -- France -- Brittany
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Megalithic monuments -- France -- Brittany
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Antiquities
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Megalithic monuments
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Neolithic period
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| SUBJECT |
Brittany (France) -- Antiquities
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France -- Brittany
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199281626 |
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0199281629 |
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9780191804311 |
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0191804312 |
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