The Idea of Order: The Circular Archetype in Prehistoric Europe

by Richard Bradley and Richard Bradley

Richard Bradley investigates the idea of circular buildings - whether houses or public architecture - which, though unfamiliar in the modern West, were a feature of many parts of prehistoric Europe. Why did so many people build circular monuments? Why did they choose to live in circular houses, when other communities rejected them? Why was it that those who preferred to inhabit a world of rectangular dwellings often buried their dead in round mounds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199608091
• ISBN13: 9780199608096
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"