British Barrows: A Matter of Life and Death

British Barrows: A Matter of Life and Death
ISBN-10
0752425315
ISBN-13
9780752425313
Category
History
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Tempus Pub Limited
Author
Ann Woodward

Description

Prehistoric barrows were not only monuments to the dead but mounds for the living—making out land, defining pathways, acting as powerful symbols, and forming a major part of perceived landscapes which welded nature and human history together. Concentrating on the long and round barrows of Neolithic and Bronze Age date, but also covering Iron Age square barrows, Ann Woodward employs accounts of many excavations and field projects, as well as her own research, to provide one person's view of how barrows fit into British prehistory.

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