Beyond the grave
Subtitle: new perspectives on barrows
By: edited by Jonathan Last.
Contributors: Last, Jonathan.
Publisher: Oxbow Books; The David Brown Book Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781842172582
Subjects: Mounds -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Bronze age -- Great Britain -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "This volume, which derives from a Theoretical Archaeology Group conference session, brings together a series of papers, focused on different regions of Britain, which collectively seek to re-assert the complexity and significance of barrows as 'four-dimensional monuments'."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "This volume... derives from a Theoretical Archaeology Group conference session"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Beyond the grave : new perspectives on barrows / Jonathan Last; title: 'As thick as two short planks' : Neolithic barrows in eastern and southern Britain / Gordon Noble; title: Neolithic architecture and participation : practices of making at long barrow sites in southern Britain / Lesley McFadyen; title: Before the hills in order stood : chronology, time and history in the interpretation of early Bronze Age round barrows / Paul Garwood; title: A thousand and one things to do with a round barrow / Frances Healy and Jan Harding; title: The creation of round barrows on the Mendip Hills, Somerset / Jodie Lewis; title: 'A bit close for comfort' : early Bronze Age burial in the Cheshire Basin / David Mullin; title: Digging deeper into barrow ditches : investigating the making of early Bronze Age memories in Cornwall / Jacqueline A. Nowakowski; title: To build or not to build : Bronze Age monument construction as technological practice / Mary Ann Owoc; title: What were you thinking of? round barrows and the dwelling perspective / Rick Peterson; title: Do barrows matter? politics, production and practice of the Welsh Bronze Age / Marcus Brittain; title: Covering old ground : barrows as closures / Jonathan Last; title: Afterword : barrows as projects / Richard Bradley.