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020			_a978-0-19-960809-6
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100	1		_aBradley, Richard _d(1946-....) _eAuteur _4070 _9401369
245	1	4	_aThe idea of order _h[Texte imprimé] : _bthe circular archetype in prehistoric Europe / _cRichard Bradley
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2012
300			_a1 vol. (242 p.) ; _c24 cm
504			_aBibliogr. p. 219-238
520			_a"Richard Bradley investigates the idea of circular buildings - whether houses or public architecture - which, though unfamiliar in the modern West, were a feature of many parts of prehistoric Europe. Why did so many people build circular monuments? Why did they choose to live in circular houses, when other communities rejected them? Why was it that those who preferred to inhabit a world of rectangular dwellings often buried their dead in round mounds and worshipped their gods in circular temples? Why did people who lived in roundhouses decorate their pottery and metalwork with rectilinear motifs, and why was it that the inhabitants of longhouses placed so much emphasis on curvilinear designs? Although their distinctive character has engaged the interest of alternative archaeologists, the significance of circular structures has rarely been discussed in a rigorous manner. The Idea of Order uses archaeological evidence, combined with insights from anthropology, to investigate the creation, use, and ultimate demise of circular architecture in prehistoric Europe. Concerned mainly with the prehistoric period from the origins of farming to the early first millennium AD, but extending to the medieval period, the volume considers the role of circular features from Turkey to the Iberian Peninsula and from Sardinia through Central Europe to Sweden. It places emphasis on the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic coastline, where circular dwellings were particularly important, and discusses the significance of prehistoric enclosures, fortifications, and burial mounds in regions where longhouse structures were dominant."--Publisher's website
505	0		_aPart One: Times and Spaces. The Circular Ruins ; Conceptions and Perceptions ; Life and Art. -- Part Two: Circular Structures in a Circular World. Houses into Tombs ; Turning to Stone ; The Enormous Room. -- Part Three: Circular Structures in a Rectilinear World. Significant Forms ; The Atrraction of Opposites ; The New Order. -- Summing Up. From Centre to Circumference
653			_aAntiquities, Prehistoric / Europe
653			_aRound buildings / Europe
653			_aEarthworks (Archaeology)
653			_aEurope / History / To 476
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