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by: Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton, Chris Tilley
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 936.237
EAN: 9781598742190
ISBN: 1598742191
Label: Left Coast Press
Manufacturer: Left Coast Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: November 30, 2007
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Sales Rank: 1551132
Studio: Left Coast Press
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor—both ancient and modern—using a large number of literary genres and academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of archaeology.
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