Description
Book SynopsisIn many European areas, the Neolithic period corresponds to the development of architectural monumentality which left important marks in the landscape, as well as the land clearing and the cultivation by the first agro-pastoral societies. This volume presents proceedings from the session ‘Monumentality and territory: relationship between enclosures and necropolis in the European Neolithic’, part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos (Spain), the 4th September 2014. The session considered the various manifestations of the relationship between Neolithic enclosures and tombs in different contexts of Europe, notably through spatial analysis; the concept of landscape appropriation, combining domestic, symbolic, economic or natural spaces; and the patterns of territorial organization, in which enclosures and tombs have a fundamental role in some Neolithic contexts.
Table of ContentsForeword to the XVII UISPP Congress Proceedings Series Edition (Luiz Oosterbeek); Chapter 1 – Northern and Eastern Europe: UK and Poland: Megalithic tombs, barrows, and enclosures in fourth millennium BC Britain (Timothy Darvill); House and megalith. Some remarks on the Niedźwiedź type tombs in the Eastern group of the TRB culture (Seweryn Rzepecki); Chapter 2 – Western Europe: France: The role of enclosures in territorial organization in the Paris Basin between 4500 and 3800 BC (Claira Lietar); Late Neolithic graves and enclosures in Lower Languedoc: A phenomenon of alternation, 3200-2200 cal. BC (Luc Jallot); Chapter 3 – Southern Europe: Spain and Portugal: Prehistoric ditched enclosures and necropolises in Southern Iberia: a diachronic overview (Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez and José Enrique Márquez-Romero); Ditched enclosures and the ideologies of death in the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic South Portugal (António Carlos Valera); Towards a definition of the prehistoric landscape in the Plateau of Sigarra: visibility and territoriality between the Middle Neolithic and Bronze Age (Natalia Salazar Ortiz)
