Avebury in Context: landscapes of monuments in Late Neolithic Britain

在英国和西北欧的新石器时代（公元前3000年），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提供了一个这样的例子，最近对这一地区的考古调查将成为调查英国纪念碑现象的基础。关键问题涉及这些纪念碑建筑群为什么会出现，何时出现，以及它们的形式。该项目将涉及探索纪念碑发展的区域历史，以及这些历史与更广泛的社会和物质世界的关系。

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.