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Monuments and Landscape

in Atlantic Europe

Atlantic Europe is the zone par excellence of megalithic monuments which

encompasses a wide range of earthen and stone constructions from impressive

circles to modest chambered tombs. A single basic concept lies behind this

volume: that the intrinsic qualities encountered within the diverse landscapes of

Atlantic Europe both informed the settings chosen for the monuments and played

a role in determining their form and visual appearance. This, in part, derives from

the use of local materials and the manner in which they were displayed within

the monuments: for example how stone, clearly taken from the local geology,

was visibly incorporated. Yet we may go further than this in some instances and

propose that the nature of local landforms itself both attracted monuments,

providing meaningful or dramatic settings, and offered a series of ideas which

played some part in inﬂuencing the form of those monuments themselves.

Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe goes signiﬁcantly beyond the limits

of the existing debate by inviting archaeologists from different countries within

the Atlantic zone to examine the relationship between landscape features and

prehistoric monuments in their specialist regions. By placing the issue within a

broader regional and intellectual context, the authors illustrate the diversity of

current archaeological ideas and approaches converging around this central

theme. The regions represented include Britain, France, Ireland, Iberia and

Scandinavia. The result constitutes a remarkable testament to the convergence

of conceptual approaches to prehistoric monuments in the diverse landscapes

and diverse intellectual traditions of Atlantic Europe.

Chris Scarre is Deputy Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological

Research, Cambridge, and specialises in the later prehistory of Europe and the

Mediterranean.

Monuments and Landscape

in Atlantic Europe

Perception and Society during the

Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

Edited by Chris Scarre

London and New York

First published 2002

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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individual chapters, the contributors

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Monuments and landscape in Atlantic Europe : perception and society

during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age / edited by Chris Scarre.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Neolithic period—Europe, Western. 2. Bronze age—Europe,

Western. 3. Megalithic monuments—Europe, Western. 4. Landscape

assessment—Europe, Western. 5. Europe, Western—Antiquities.

I. Scarre, Christopher.

GN776.22.W47 M66 2002

936—dc2l

2001048692

ISBN 0-203-99405-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0–415–27313–7 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–27314–5 (pbk)

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