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The megalithic monuments of Western Europe cover a period of over
2,000 years, from the earliest neolithic to the beginning of the
Bronze Age, and have excited the popular imagination for centuries.
Based on the evidence of recent excavations, and the most
up-to-date and controversial theoretical perspectives of
archaeology, Statements in Stone is the first account to put the
megalithic traditions of Brittany in a social context and to
develop a social model to account for their emergence and
development.
Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of
prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the
Mediterranean and offers an explanation of the effects of isolation
on the development of human communities. Evidence is drawn from a
broad range of Mediterranean islands including Cyprus, Crete and
the Cyclades, Malta, Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia.
"Islands in Time" explores the ecological and cultural development
of prehistoric island societies, considers the prehistory of the
Mediterranean and offers an explanation of the effects of isolation
on the development of human communities.
This study details the fundamental questions that are raised about
colonization processes, the human impact on ecosystems, cultural
development on islands, and the significance of inter-island and
island-mainland interaction. Evidence is drawn from a broad range
of Mediterranean islands, including Cyprus, Crete and the Cyclades,
Malta, Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia. Developing a general
theoretical model of island sociogeography, "Islands in Time"
provides insight into the broader question of how island
populations inter-relate with their environments.
Contents: Note on the use of radiocarbon dates Acknowledgements 1. Megaliths and Society, an Introduction 2. Centres of Production and Spheres of Interaction: Stone Axe Exchange in the Armorican Neolithic 3. Long Mounds and Giant Menhirs: Ritual Landscapes of the First Farmers. 4. Monuments in a Coastal Landscape: Passage Graves of the Armorican Littoral. 5. Statements of Power and Symbols of Wealth: the Great Mounds and Alignments of the Carnac Region 6. Land for the Living, Tombs for the Dead: Burial Monuments of the Late Neolithic. 7. Sealing the Tombs: the abandonment of Megaliths. 8. Conclusion: Ritual Landscapes and Social Structure in the Armorican Neolithic
Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), first Lord Avebury, was a leading
figure in the scientific, political and economic world of Victorian
Britain, and his life provides an illuminating case study into the
ways that these different facets were interlinked during the
nineteenth century. Born into a Kent banking family, Lubbock's
education was greatly influenced by his neighbour, Charles Darwin,
and after the publication of The Origin of Species, he was one of
his most vocal supporters. A pioneer of both entomology and
archaeology and a successful author, Lubbock also ran the family
bank from 1865 until his death in 1913, and served as a Liberal MP
from 1870 until his ennoblement in 1900. In all these roles he
proved extremely successful, but it is the inter-relations between
science, politics and business that forms the core of this book. In
particular it explores the way in which Lubbock acted as a link
between the scientific worlds of Darwin, Huxley and Tyndall, the
political world of Gladstone and Chamberlain and the business world
of Edison and Carnegie. By tying these threads together this study
shows the important role Lubbock played in defining and
popularising the Victorian ideal of progress and its relationship
to society, culture and Empire.
This is the first full-length study of the prehistoric history of
the Channel Islands since 1937. Using modern techniques of
anthropological archaeology and theory Patton records in detail the
evidence for the Neolithic period (5000-2000 BC) and develops a
model for socio-cultural change in the islands; in particular he
examines the effects of insularity on their historical and cultural
developemnt. In six appendices he presents details of the islands'
flint assemblages, stone axes and pottery, and an inventory of
sites.
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