By Kenneth Brophy
Reading among the strains: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland is the 1st systematic research of Scotland’s cursus monuments and is written by means of one of many most desirable students of the Neolithic in Scotland. Drawing on fifteen years of expertise of cropmark interpretation, in addition to his involvement in different excavations of cursus monuments and modern websites, Kenneth Brophy uncovers a number of the secrets and techniques of the Neolithic landscape.
While outlining the actual features of the cursus, this booklet additionally addresses the constraints of this type of typological description while utilized to monuments which various so remarkably when it comes to materiality and dimension. relocating past a morphological account, Brophy considers what may be acknowledged of this assorted crew of websites, and the way they have been truly outfitted and utilized in prehistory, in mild of numerous a long time of aerial reconnaissance and excavation in Scotland. via an in depth research of the variations, in addition to the similarities, among those constructions, this ebook bargains a nuanced account of cursus monuments, ultimately permitting this crucial monument sort to be larger understood and positioned along others of the period.
Offering intriguing new methods of puzzling over those enigmatic but vital monuments, analyzing Between the strains: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland is a vital source for college kids and experts in British prehistory, delivering an advent to the Early Neolithic archaeology of lowland Scotland in addition to a meditation on broader features of monumentality and architecture.
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