Hostname: page-component-cc8bf7c57-qfg88 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-11T23:01:14.033Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Places Apart? Caves and Monuments in Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2002

John Barnatt  and
Mark Edmonds
John Barnatt
Affiliation:
Archaeology Service, Peak District National Park, Aldern House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK .
Mark Edmonds
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 4ET, UK; [email protected].
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The recent growth of landscape perspectives has stimulated fresh approaches to the ways in which prehistoric communities attached significance to what we classify as topography or geology. Using evidence from North Wales and the Derbyshire Peak District, we argue here that the use of caves during the Neolithic and Bronze Age reflects a significant blurring of the distinction that archaeologists often draw between monuments and natural features.

Keywords

Neolithic monuments, Britaincaves, NeolithicBronze Age Britainlandscape archaeology
Type
Research Article
Information
Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , April 2002 , pp. 113 - 129
Copyright
2002 The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)