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The Making of Prehistoric Wiltshire
Author | : David Field,Dave McOmish |
Publsiher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781445648422 |
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The complete story of the area known for the famous Stonehenge, Avebury, Silbury Hill.
Prehistoric Wiltshire
Author | : Bob Clarke |
Publsiher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2011-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781445623900 |
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A fascinating look at Wiltshire's archaeology from widely acknowledged expert, Bob Clarke.
Prehistoric Monuments of Avebury
Author | : Caroline Malone |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Avebury (England) |
ISBN | : 1850742537 |
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Avebury stone circle is over 4000 years old. It is one of the largest prehistoric henges in Britain, and has been designated as a World Heritage Site. This is an account of Avebury's ceremonial sites, ancient avenues and barrows.
Prehistoric Avebury
Author | : Aubrey Burl |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300090870 |
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This magnificent book is a fascinating account of the prehistoric stone circles at Avebury, which not only II date from an earlier era but are also larger than the more famous sarsen stone circle of Stonehenge. Written by a leading archaeologist, the book considers every aspect of Avebury's history and construction and discusses the probable purpose of these massive structures, in the process creating a vivid and moving picture of their creators -- a primitive people whose lives were brief, savage, and fearful.
Making Places In The Prehistoric World
Author | : Joanna Bruck,Melissa Goodman |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000939552 |
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First published in 1999. This groundbreaking volume addresses issues central to the study of prehistoric settlement including group memory, the transmission of ideology and the impact of mobility and seasonality on the construction of social identity. Building on these themes, the contributors point to new ways of understanding the relationship between settlement and landscape by replacing Capitalist models of spatial relations with more intimate histories of place.
Personifying Prehistory
Author | : Joanna Brück |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780191080920 |
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The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the precursor and origin-point for significant aspects of the modern world. This book presents a very different image of Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Drawing on the wealth of material from recent excavations, as well as a long history of research, it explores the impact of the post-Enlightenment 'othering' of the non-human on our understanding of Bronze Age society. There is much to suggest that the conceptual boundary between the active human subject and the passive world of objects, so familiar from our own cultural context, was not drawn in this categorical way in the Bronze Age; the self was constructed in relational rather than individualistic terms, and aspects of the non-human world such as pots, houses, and mountains were considered animate entities with their own spirit or soul. In a series of thematic chapters on the human body, artefacts, settlements, and landscapes, this book considers the character of Bronze Age personhood, the relationship between individual and society, and ideas around agency and social power. The treatment and deposition of things such as querns, axes, and human remains provides insights into the meanings and values ascribed to objects and places, and the ways in which such items acted as social agents in the Bronze Age world.
Prehistoric Britain
Author | : Joshua Pollard |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2008-06-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781405125468 |
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Informed by the latest research and in-depth analysis, Prehistoric Britain provides students and scholars alike with a fascinating overview of the development of human societies in Britain from the Upper Paleolithic to the end of the Iron Age. Offers readers an incisive synthesis and much-needed overview of current research themes Includes essays from leading scholars and professionals who address the very latest trends in current research Explores the interpretive debates surrounding major transitions in British prehistory
Fonthill Recovered
Author | : Caroline Dakers |
Publsiher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2018-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781787350458 |
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Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.