By Jim Leary,Timothy Darvill,David Field
The papers are prepared in tough geographic order beginning within the north and dealing southwards ahead of heading around the Irish Sea after which the Atlantic. Following a wide-ranging dialogue of around mounds the world over, papers talk about features of Scottish around mounds, earlier than relocating all the way down to the Isle of guy, the Neolithic around mounds of the Yorkshire Wolds, Liffs Low within the Derbyshire height District, and around mounds at the Cotswolds. The quantity then strikes to Wessex, beginning with a dialogue of Silbury Hill, and by way of a re-examination of the nice Barrow at Knowlton, overcome Barrow at Mount friendly, and the Hatfield Barrow at Marden. How archaeologists and background managers pick out to interpret around mounds is the topic of the subsequent paper, utilizing Silbury Hill because the fundamental case examine. this can be by way of a vast dialogue of round traditions, really formative henges, in Wales and adjoining counties, around burial mounds in the Boyne Valley, eire, resembling Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange, and Irish around mounds containing portal tombs. in terms of comparability with the proof from the British Isles, the quantity then crosses over to North the United States for a vast dialogue of mound-building traditions there. Rounding off the quantity is one other wide-ranging essay at the nature of around mounds, which demanding situations our very realizing and interpretation of them.
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