Landscape in the Longue Durée : a history and theory of pebbles in a pebbled heathland landscape /: a history and theory of pebbles in a pebbled heathland landscape. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Tilley.
• Authors: Tilley, Christopher Y
• Contents: Part I: The heathlands in prehistory; ; 1 The Pebblebed landscape; 2 George Carter and the archaeology of East Devon; 3 Early Bronze Age pebble cairns; 4 Analysis of the pebbles; 5 The poetics of pebbles; 6 Burnt mounds and pebble sculptures; 7 The value of pebbles in an original affluent society; 8 How landscape defines communities in prehistory:an environmental reconstruction of the prehistoricPebblebeds landscape; 9 Signing the land: Woodbury Castle and hilltop enclosuresin the Iron Age of East Devon; ; Part II: The heathlands in modernity ; 10 Landscaping the heathlands; 11 Early military occupation and use of the heathlands; 12 The embodied poetics of a nineteenth-century heathlandslandscape; 13 A vernacular pebbled landscape; 14 The heathlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; 15 Woven flame and pebble grid: an artist’s interaction witharchaeology and the heathlands 16 Conclusions: the longue durée and a theory of pebbles in apebbled landscape
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 942.35; Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Devon; Pebbles; Heathlands -- England -- Devon; Devon (England) -- Historical geography; Devon (England) -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787350847; 9781787350816; 9781787350854; 9781787350861
• Related ISBNs: 9781787350830; 9781787350823
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