Round mounds and monumentality in the British Neolithic and beyond - Leary, Jim.; Darvill, Timothy; Field, David, 1950-; ebrary, Inc. (Oxford, U.K. ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, 2010)
Design, geometry, and the metamorphosis of monuments / David Field -- " --a place where they tried their criminals" : Neolithic round mounds in Perth and Kinross / Kenneth Brophy -- Scotland's Neolithic non-megalithic round mounds : new dates, problems, and potential / Alison Sheridan -- Tynwald Hill and the round mounds of the Isle of Man / Timothy Darvill -- Recent work on the Neolithic round barrows of the upper Great Wold Valley, Yorkshire / Alex Gibson and Alex Bayliss -- "One of the most interesting barrows ever examined" : Liffs Low revisited / Roy Loveday and Alistair Barclay -- Neolithic round barrows on the Cotswolds / Timothy Darvill -- Silbury Hill : a monument in motion / Jim Leary -- The brood of Silbury? : a remote look at some other sizeable Wessex mounds / Martyn Barber ... [et al.] -- The mystery of the hill / Jonathan Last -- The formative henge : speculations drawn from the circular traditions of Wales and adjacent counties / Steve Burrow -- Monumentality and inclusion in the Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland / Geraldine Stout -- Round mounds containing portal tombs / Tatjana Kytmannow -- Native American mound building traditions / Peter Topping -- The round mound is not a monument / Tim Ingold.
Papers from a seminar held Nov. 3, 2008 at the British Museum.
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Mounds -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Monuments -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Neolithic period -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Mounds -- Congresses; Monuments -- Congresses; Neolithic period -- Congresses; Antiquities -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Electronic books