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Landscape of the Megaliths (Paperback)
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This volume describes the results of the Longstones Project, a
joint-universities programme of excavation and survey designed to
develop a fuller understanding of the context and dynamics of
monument construction in the later Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) of
the Avebury region, Wiltshire. Several elements of this
internationally important prehistoric monument complex were
investigated: an early-mid 3rd millennium BC enclosure at
Beckhampton; the recently re-discovered Beckhampton Avenue and
Longstones Cove; a section of the West Kennet Avenue; the Falkner's
stone circle; and the Cove within Avebury's Northern Inner Circle.
The research sheds new light on the complexities and development of
this monument rich area and consideration is given to the questions
of how and why ceremonial centres such as that at Avebury came into
being in the 3rd millennium BC. The importance of understanding the
agency - the affective and perceived inherent qualities - of
materials and landscapes is stressed; and the unusual character of
the Wessex monument complexes is highlighted by comparison with the
format and sequences of other ceremonial centres in southern
Britain. The second part of the monograph tracks the later,
post-prehistoric, lives of Avebury's megalithic monuments including
a detailed account of the early 18th-century records of the
Beckhampton Avenue made by the antiquary William Stukeley.
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