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Loading... Interpreting landscapes : geologies, topographies, identitiesby Christopher Tilley
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This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long dure e. Granite uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic resources for human settlement and require forms of social engagement. Taking his finding No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)936.2History and Geography Ancient World Europe north and west of Italian Peninsula to ca. 499 England and Wales to 410LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |