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fitzcoraldo
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Oct 28, 2003, 09:40
The early neolithic has many examples of none - circular structures
rectangular houses, cursus monuments, mortuary enclosures, causeway enclosures, bank barows, long cairns
linear monuments continued into the late neolithic and bronze age with avenues, stone rows and pit alignments but we also see the rise of the circle in barrow building stone & timber circles & round houses.
These are generalisations but what I find fascinating is the transition from simple alignments to cardinal points and a general linear view of the world during the early neolithic leading to a growing complexity of alignments and a view of the world 'in the round' during the late neolithic.
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