The Megaliths of Northern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415351805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 230 str.

Magda Midgley

Opis

The North European megaliths are among the most enduring structures built in prehistory; they are imbued with symbolic meanings which embody physical and conceptual ideas about the nature of the world inhabited by the first Northern farmers. This title provides a synthesis of the material available on these monuments.

Spis treści

1. Cultural and Ceremonial Background to the North European Megaliths  2. Megaliths in Thought and Space  3. To Build a Megalith  4. Body and Soul  5. Architects of Stone and Symbols  6. The Wider European Megalithic Context

O autorze

Magdalena S.Midgley is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her teaching and research interests are mainly in the European Neolithic. They include early farming communities, monumentality, burial traditions and ceremonial sites.She isalso interested in antiquarianism, megalithic representations in art, archaeological theory and the history of archaeology as a discipline.