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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (11 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415204321
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415204323
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 176,642 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #60 in  Books > History > Archaeology > By Period > Prehistoric
    #83 in  Books > History > Britain & Ireland > Early British & Roman Britain
    #85 in  Books > History > Reference > Geographical History
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Interpreting Neolithic Landscapes will provide invaluable insights into early prehistory to students of archaeology and landscape history, and all those interested in what life in prehistoric Britain might really have been like.

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Ancestral Geographies of theNeolithic is a vivid portrait of life in the small, dispersed communities of Neolithic Britain. Focusing in on the landscape and monuments of the fourth millennium BC, Mark Edmonds provides a dramatic, colourful interpretation of how these prehistoric peoples understood the world in which they lived.
Central to this study is the idea that communities of the time may have thought about the land, and about themselves, in ways very different to those we take for granted today. Theirs was a world shaped by kinship, ancestry and various forms of affiliation. It was a world in which the dead were a powerful presence, and where distant times and places held a particular fascination. Many of these themes were brought into sharpest focus during periodic gatherings at the monumental enclosures and tombs that appear in our record for the first time, where communities engaged in ancestral rites, exchange and other forms of ceremonial. It was through both routine and ritual experienc

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3.0 out of 5 stars a good read but not to be confused with a text book, 2 Jun 2002
By frontinus@btinternet.com (pontypool, south wales) - See all my reviews
mark edmonds says in the unusual post script that he wanted the book to be experimental. well it is all that but not really an original format. this type of parralell narrative was first used by anthropology writers(ruth tringham was one of the first). edmonds uses the characters in his narrative to explain the chapters of his work. however the storyline in the narrative passages is weak, the characters seam to have 20th century values, and the whole book suffers because of this. there is a warm and fuzzy feel to the whole storyline, you must ask if these characters are supposed to be living in the neolithic, why are they so nice? they do nothing to argue with each other, there are no power polotics no inter group struggles for land or cattle.the illustrations in the book are awful, there are elementry errors in most of them,north arrows missing from maps and plans for instance. there are some good drawings of neolithic pots but they are not real pots but just made up ones.the use of photo montage instead of factual photography detracts from a very interesting subject.the photograph on the front cover is of gray hill in wiltshire however it has been printed back to front, this is an unforgettable mistake on the cover of a forgettable book. edmonds also does the book no favours by leaving out the in text references, without these as a student you cannot quote from the book! i could not recomend this book to an impressionable archaeology student, it is a good read though, very much like jim crace's gift of stones...
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