Considers the individual building and use-histories of monuments and their significance in architectural, social and symbolic terms
This volume provides new insight by focusing on the construction and design of European megalithic tombs - on the tomb as an architectural project. It shows how much is to be learned from detailed attention to the stages and the techniques through which tombs were built, modified and enlarged, and often intentionally dismantled or decommissioned. The volume brings together regional specialists from 6 countries to offer a series of uniquely authoritative studies. Results of recent fieldwork are fully incorporated providing an invaluable overview of the current
state of research on European megalithic tombs.