Avebury in Context: landscapes of monuments in Late Neolithic Britain

在新石器时代（公元前3千年）的英国和西北欧，某些宗教成为建造主要仪式纪念碑的焦点。威尔特郡的埃夫伯里地区就是这样一个例子，最近对该地区的考古调查将构成对英国各地纪念性现象调查的基础。关键的问题是这些纪念碑群为什么会形成，什么时候形成，以什么样的形式形成。该项目将涉及探索纪念碑发展的区域历史，以及这些历史如何与更广泛的社会和物质世界联系起来。

During the Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) of Britain and the north-western Europe certain religions became the focus for the construction of major ceremonial monuments. The Avebury region of Wiltshire provides one such instance, and the recent investigated archaeology of this area will form the basis of an investigation of the phenomenon of monumentality across Britain. Key questions relate to why these monument complexes came into being, when they did, and in the form they did. The project will involve the exploration of regional histories of monument development, and how these related to wider social and material worlds.