1st Edition
Reading Between the Lines The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland
By Kenneth Brophy
Copyright 2016
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reading Between the Lines: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland is the first systematic analysis of Scotland’s cursus monuments and is written by one of the foremost scholars of the Neolithic in Scotland. Drawing on fifteen years of experience of cropmark interpretation, as well as his involvement in several excavations of cursus monuments and contemporary sites, Kenneth Brophy uncovers... Read more
PART 1: THE SITES AND THEIR CONTEXT
- ‘The weirdest type of field monument in the country’
- How do you solve a problem like a cursus?
- Bust and boom
- Ditches and banks, pits and postholes
- Cursus world
PART 2: THE EVIDENCE REVIEWED
- Grand designs
- Special places
- Remaking the land
PART 3: INTERPRETATIONS
- Rearranging trees
- Tracing lines across the land
- ‘The start of a tale already concluded’
Site list
References and further reading
Biography
Kenny Brophy is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Joint co-ordinator of the Neolithic Studies Group.
