Monuments and landscape in Atlantic Europe : perception and society during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age / edited by Chris Scarre.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: situating monuments: the dialogue between built form and landform in Atlantic Europe / Chris Scarre -- pt. 1. Atlantic Iberia -- Standing stones and natural outcrops: the role of ritual monuments in the Neolithic transition of the Central Alentejo / Manuel Calado -- Castanheiro do Vento and the significance of monumental Copper and Bronze Age sites in northern Portugal / Vi?tor Oliveira Jorge ... [et al.] -- Architecture of the natural world: rock art in western Iberia / Lara Bacelar Alves -- pt. 2. Atlantic France -- Perception of space and geometry: megalithic monuments of west-central France in their relationship to the landscape / Luc Laporte, Roger Joussaume, Chris Scarre -- Coast and cosmos: the Neolithic monuments of northern Brittany / Chris Scarre -- pt. 3. Britain and Ireland -- All cultural things: actual and conceptual monuments in the Neolithic of western Britain / Vicki Cummings -- Land, the sky and the Scottish stone circle / Richard Bradley -- Knocknarea: the ultimate monument: megaliths and mountains in Neolithic Cu?il Irra, north-west Ireland / Stefan Bergh -- Megaliths in a mythologised landscape: south-west Ireland in the Iron Age / William O'Brien -- pt. 4. Scandinavia -- Visible intentions? Viewshed analysis of Bronze Age burial mounds in western Scania, Sweden / Karin Ericson Lagera?s -- Conclusion: long conversations, concerning time, descent and place in the world / Alasdair Whittle.

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