The evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes : from Danubian longhouses to the stone rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland /

The evolution of Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes : from Danubian longhouses to the stone rows of Dartmoor and Northern Scotland /

At the heart of this book is a comparative study of the stone rows of Dartmoor and northern Scotland, a rare, putatively Bronze Age megalithic typology that has mystified archaeologists for over a century. It is argued that these are 'symbols' of Neolithic long mounds, a circumstance that...

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Main Author: Carnes, Alexander (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, [2014]

Series: Archaeopress archaeology.

Subjects:

Leys > England > Dartmoor.
Leys > Scotland.
Longhouses > England > Dartmoor.
Longhouses > Scotland.
Dartmoor (England) > Antiquities.
Scotland > Antiquities.

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