ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tumulus, Religious Organization, Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew Of Kaimsthorn
15 Feb 2020
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Certain member of society more wealth / power than others. Right to authority accepted by rest of society. Today this forms of social organization barely exits. Coastal europe:seldom more than ~150 kms from the coast. Hundreds of thousands of megalithic tombs in neolithic europe. Megalithic chamber under a round mount, entered through a long megalithic passageway. Shift from communal,decent group orientation to acceptance of individuals of high status. Probably used by a single related clan of settled farmers, over many generation. Probably served as visible marker of their connection to that territory. A right of massive standing stones on the salisbury plain, england. Some see as the product of mystical force or earth mysteries . Archaeological research demonstrate not a single monument but a sequence of monument built over time. Stonehenge was developed through a series of stages. Construction begin in the late neolithic 5000 bp. Stonehenge continued to developed until early bronze age 3500 years ago.
