UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
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This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of Bronze Age and present day worlds and landscapes on North West Bodmin Moor. It is the outcome of a highly innovative project which focused on the multivocality of method and interpretation associated with interpreting the past in the present. In terms of the archaeological past it provides a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor and specifically that at Leskernick. These Bronze Ages are contextualised against other Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain. Excavation, field survey, geomorphological analysis, environmental studies, anthropology and sociology all contribute to this analysis. The format of the book is highly experimental in its combination of different types of text (including dialogue, story telling and poetry) and visual imagery (including photo narratives).
This book is the first comprehensive introduction and guide to Sweden’s most spectacular Stone Age monuments: the dolmens and passage graves, which began to be constructed over 5000 years ago. The introduction provides a detailed social interpretation of these monuments outlining how and why they were built and the ways in which they related to economy and landscape, politics, ceremony, symbolism and belief. This is followed by a systematic regional guide to all the major monuments in Skåne, Halland, Västergotland, Öland and Bohuslän, illustrated by numerous photographs, plans and maps.