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The Idea of Order - The Circular Archetype in Prehistoric Europe (Hardcover)
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The Idea of Order - The Circular Archetype in Prehistoric Europe (Hardcover)
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Richard Bradley investigates the idea of circular buildings -
whether houses or public architecture - which, though unfamiliar in
the modern West, were a feature of many parts of prehistoric
Europe. Why did so many people build circular monuments? Why did
they choose to live in circular houses, when other communities
rejected them? Why was it that those who preferred to inhabit a
world of rectangular dwellings often buried their dead in round
mounds and worshipped their gods in circular temples? Why did
people who lived in roundhouses decorate their pottery and
metalwork with rectilinear motifs, and why was it that the
inhabitants of longhouses placed so much emphasis on curvilinear
designs? Although their distinctive character has engaged the
interest of alternative archaeologists, the significance of
circular structures has rarely been discussed in a rigorous manner.
The Idea of Order uses archaeological evidence, combined with
insights from anthropology, to investigate the creation, use, and
ultimate demise of circular architecture in prehistoric Europe.
Concerned mainly with the prehistoric period from the origins of
farming to the early first millennium AD, but extending to the
medieval period, the volume considers the role of circular features
from Turkey to the Iberian Peninsula and from Sardinia through
Central Europe to Sweden. It places emphasis on the Western
Mediterranean and the Atlantic coastline, where circular dwellings
were particularly important, and discusses the significance of
prehistoric enclosures, fortifications, and burial mounds in
regions where longhouse structures were dominant.
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