Enclosing the Neolithic

Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction (Alex Gibson); Earthen Enclosures in Britain & Ireland: An Introduction to the study of henges: time for a change? (Alex Gibson); Henging, mounding and blocking: the Forteviot henge group (Kenneth Brophy & Gordon Noble); Henges in Ireland: new discoveries and emerging issues (Muiris O'Sullivan, Stephen Davies & Geraldine Stout); Journeys and Juxtapositions. Marden Henge and the View from the Vale (Jim Leary & David Field); Conformity, Routeways and Religious Experience - the Henges of Central Yorkshire (Jan Harding); Ringlemere: A Pit/Post Horseshoe and Henge Monument in East Kent (Keith Parfitt & Stuart Needham); Living with Sacred Spaces: The Henge Monuments of Wessex (Joshua Pollard); Neolithic enclosures: European case studies: Mid Neolithic Enclosures in Southern Scandinavia (Lars Larsson); Mid- Late Neolithic Enclosures in the South of France (Fabien Convertini); Kreisgrabenanlagen - Middle Neolithic Ritual Enclosures in Austria 4800-4500 BC (Wolfgang Neubauer); Mind the gap: Neolithic and Chalcolithic enclosures of south Portugal (Antonio Carlos Valera); The Neolithic enclosures in transition. Tradition and change in the cosmology of early farmers in central Europe (Jan Turek); Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Richard Bradley).