Interpreting landscapes
geologies, topographies, identities
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- 21st century
- Language: English
This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long durée. Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic resources for human settlement and require forms of social engagement. Taking his finding
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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geologies, topographies, identities 1st ed 1 online resource (538 p.); 3; About the Author; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Part I: Interpreting Landscapes; 1. Outline of a Phenomenological Perspective; 2. The Neolithic Sensory Revolution; Part II: Chalk Country; 3. Stonehenge's Architecture and Landscape; 4. Round Barrows and Cross Dykes as Landscape Metaphors; 5. The Beach in the Sky; Part III: From Pebbles to Sandstone and Slate; 6. Sensory Experience on the East Devon Pebblebeds; 7. Stalking with Stones on Exmoor; Part IV: Granite; 8. Landscapes and Power on Bodmin Moor; 9. Supernatural Places in West Penwith; 10. Conclusions; References; Index; Description based upon print version of record; Dewey classification: 936.2; Explorations in landscape phenomenology; Includes bibliographical references and index; Publication place: Walnut Creek, Calif | c2009 | Left Coast Press | English |
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