FORMS OF POWER - DIMENSIONS OF AN IRISH MEGALITHIC LANDSCAPE

Authors
Citation
J. Mcmann, FORMS OF POWER - DIMENSIONS OF AN IRISH MEGALITHIC LANDSCAPE, Antiquity, 68(260), 1994, pp. 525-544
Citations number
81
Categorie Soggetti
Archaeology,Archaeology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0003598X
Volume
68
Issue
260
Year of publication
1994
Pages
525 - 544
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-598X(1994)68:260<525:FOP-DO>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
What must it have been like to be here in ancient times?'- where 'here ' is inside one of the Great Zimbabwe enclosures or a Mesoamerican bal l-court. An architectural approach to built spaces may make coherent t hat felt experience, here applied to the Loughcrew chamber-tombs, clas sic built spaces of Irish prehistory.