Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword v -- Preface ix -- Acknowledgements xi -- Archive xii -- Radiocarbon dates xii -- Summary 1 -- Part One: The Silbury Hill monumental mound 5 -- Location and setting 5 -- The present state of the site 7 -- History of previous investigations 8 -- Excavations in 1968-70: aims and progress 11 -- The tunnel 13 -- The top and upper part of the mound 20 -- The ditch 22 -- The nature and sequence of construction and the date of the mound 24 -- Soils 26 -- Pollen 29 -- Macroscopic plant remains 32 -- The insects 36 -- Mollusca 47 -- Vertebrates and small vertebrates 47 -- Plates 51 -- Part Two: The West Kennet palisade enclosures 53 -- Location and setting 53 -- The sequence of discovery and the aims of research 54 -- Palisade enclosure 1 57 -- The palisade ditches 57 -- Interior features 70 -- Palisade enclosure 2 76 -- The palisade ditch 76 -- Radial ditches 82 -- Interior features 83 -- Other ditches 86 -- A natural channel and valley history 86 -- Finds 90 -- Flint 90 -- Stone 93 -- Pottery 93 -- Animal bone 117 -- The wood charcoal 129 -- Charred plant remains 134 -- Part Three: A Later Neolithic complex in north Wiltshire 139 -- Dating and sequence 139 -- Environments and the settlement context 140 -- Silbury Hill: interpretations and comparisons 142 -- The West Kennet palisade enclosures: interpretations and comparisons 151 -- The social and the sacred: settlement and monumentality in the Avebury area and beyond 164 -- Appendix: The Marlborough Mound 169 -- Bibliography -- 171.…”

“…An East-West Center Book…”

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