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The Evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes - from Danubian Longhouses to the Stone Rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland (Paperback)
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The Evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes - from Danubian Longhouses to the Stone Rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland (Paperback)
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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. New theory is developed for analysing such
archaeological sequences, and for understanding and explaining
material culture more generally. The local sequences are
contextualised by examining European megalithic origins, tracing
the long mound concept back to the LBK longhouses. It is argued
that all of these related forms - longhouses, long mounds, and
stone rows - are implicated in a process of competitively asserting
ancestral affinities, which explains the constraint on cultural
variation, and thus the formation of remarkably stable monument
traditions, that led to the convergence between Dartmoor and
northern Scotland in the Early Bronze Age.
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