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Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic

Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic is a vivid portrait of life in the small, dispersed

communities of Neolithic Britain. Focussing in on the landscape and monuments

of the fourth millennium BC, Mark Edmonds provides a dramatic, colourful

interpretation of how these prehistoric peoples understood the world in which

they lived.

Central to this study is the idea that communities of the time may have thought

about the land, and about themselves, in ways very different to those we take for

granted today. Theirs was a world shaped by kinship, ancestry and various forms of

affiliation. It was a world in which the dead were a powerful presence, and where

distant times and places held a particular fascination. Many of these themes were

brought into sharpest focus during periodic gatherings at the monumental enclosures

and tombs that appear in our record for the first time, where communities engaged

in ancestral rites, exchange and other forms of ceremonial. It was through both

routine and ritual experience that dispersed and fragmented communities

acknowledged their ties to the land, to the past and to each other.

Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic will provide invaluable insights into later

prehistory to students of archaeology and landscape history, and all those interested

in how prehistoric landscapes were inhabited.

Mark Edmonds is a senior lecturer in landscape archaeology at the University of

Sheffield. He is the author of Stone Tools and Society.

Ancestral Geographies of

the Neolithic

Landscape, monuments and memory

Mark Edmonds

London and New York

First published 1999

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now

known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in

any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing

from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Edmonds, M.R. (Mark R.)

Ancestral geographies of the Neolithic: landscape, monuments and

memory/Mark Edmonds

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Neolithic period—Great Britain. 2. Earthworks (Archaeology)—

Great Britain. 3. Human ecology—Great Britain. 4. Landscape

assessment—Great Britain. 5. Great Britain—Antiquities.

I. Title

GN776.22.G7E33 1999

936.1–dc21

98–36461

CIP

ISBN 0-415-07677-3 (HB)

ISBN 0-415-20432-1 (PB)

ISBN 0-203-02019-7 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-08563-9 (Glassbook Format)

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