Interpreting landscapes
Subtitle: geologies, topographies, identities
By: Christopher Tilley.
Series: Explorations in landscape phenomenology -- 3
Publisher: Left Coast Press; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781598743746
Subjects: Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain; Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Great Britain; Architecture, Prehistoric -- Great Britain; Landscape archaeology -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: interpreting landscapes: geologies, topographies, identities; title: Outline of a phenomenological perspective; title: The Neolithic sensory revolution; title: Chalk country; title: Stonehenge: its architecture and its landscape: a re-analysis; title: Round barrows and cross dykes as landscape metaphors; title: The beach in the sky; title: From pebbles to sandstone and slate; title: From sensory experience to the cosmological domain on the East Devon pebblebeds; title: Stalking with stones: the "minilithic" stone settings of exmoor; title: Granite; title: Rocks as resources: landscapes and power on bodmin moor; title: An archaeology of super-natural places: the case of West Penwith; title: Conclusions; title: References.