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Author:   Vicki Cummings ,  Colin Richards
Publisher:   Windgather Press
Imprint:   Windgather Press
ISBN:  

9781911188438

ISBN 10:   1911188437
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   15 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgements List of figures 1. The enchantment of megalithic architecture: revisiting the dolmens of northern Europe 2. An aesthetic of megalithic construction: dolmens as installations of display 3. Becoming a capstone: differentiating stones and cup-marking in anticipation of dolmen construction 4. Raising dolmens in-situ: the deployment of enchanting technologies 5. Megalithic affect and effect: encountering dolmens in northern European landscapes 6. The living dolmen: flesh, stone and the flow and exchange of vital substances 7. A monumental catastrophe: investigating the collapsed dolmens at Garn Turne, south-west Wales 8. Wondrous places: dolmens and discourses of wonder in the early Neolithic of Britain and Ireland Appendices

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This is a book totally of the twenty-first century. It is all about us, not only the authors and their friends, but those of us who enjoy looking at sculpture and architecture. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *

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Vicki Cummings is Reader in Archaeology in the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire where she specialises in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Britain and Ireland, with a particular focus on monuments and landscape. She has a broader interest in hunting and gathering populations, interpretive archaeology and stone tools. Colin Richards is Professor of World Prehistory in the Deaprtment of Archaeology at the University of Manchester where he mainly specialises in Neolithic archaeology, architecture and monumentality and ethnoarchaeology, with specific interests in Orkney and Easter Island.

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