Lines on the Landscape, Circles from the Sky: Monuments of Neolithic OrkneyTempus, 2004 - 224 Seiten This book looks at archaeological remains as architecture with inherent meaning. In this study an architect draws on research, fieldwork, mythology, anthropology, religion and folklore to elucidate the meaning of the stone remains and the cosmos they represented. |
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alignment ancestors archaeological archaeologists architecture artefacts associated axis Barnhouse Bigland Round bones Britain building built burial cairn burial tombs Burl Cassirer Celtic centre chambered cairns circular colour plate concept considered construction cosmos culture Davidson dead death describes distinct ditch earth Eilean Domhnuill Eliade Eliade's emerged evidence example excavation feast hall fundamental gods Grooved Ware Henshall Ibid idea interpretation Ireland Isbister Knap of Howar landscape Levi-Strauss linked Maes Howe-type material meaning megalithic midden Midhowe midwinter monuments moon myth mythical thinking Neolithic Orkney Papa Westray particular passage graves pattern perhaps post-holes prehistoric primitive Quanterness Quoyness Redrawn relationship Religion remains Renfrew Richards Ring of Brodgar Rinyo ritual sacred savage mind seems seen settlement shaman side chambers significant similar Skara Brae Skara Brae house slabs space standing stones stone circles Stones of Stenness structure suggests symbolic Taversoe Tuick things underworld Unstan Unstan ware world view