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COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 ENCYCLOPAEDIC MEMORIES OF THE ELDERS
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF ANIMALS
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF PLANTS
PERFORMED AND RESTRICTED KNOWLEDGE
SONGLINES
MEMORY SPACES AND ANCIENT GREEKS
CEREMONIES SERVE A MULTIPLICITY OF PURPOSES
LONGEVITY OF STORIES
INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 2 MEMORY SPACES, LARGE AND SMALL
SKYSCAPES OF MEMORY
MINIATURE MEMORY SPACES
STRINGS: TWISTED, TURNED AND KNOTTED
BUNDLES OF NON-UTILITARIAN OBJECTS
REPRESENTATION OF MYTHOLOGICAL ANCESTORS
PUEBLO CORN STORIES: MYTHOLOGY AND SCIENCE
GENEALOGIES AND TOTEMS
CHAPTER 3 MEMORY SPACES IN A MODERN WORLD
THE LANDSCAPE AS A MEMORY SPACE
SKYSCAPES AS A MEMORY SPACE
DECKS OF CARDS AS MEMORY SPACES
MINIATURE MEMORY SPACES
A MYRIAD MEMORY SPACES
CHAPTER 4 A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
THE FIRST MODERN HUMANS
MONUMENTAL MEMORY SPACES
CHAPTER 5 THE EVER-CHANGING MEMORY SPACES AT STONEHENGE
A MIND GAME OF TRANSITION TO SETTLEMENT
STONEHENGE AND THE BRITISH NEOLITHIC
FIRST STAGE: 3000–2920 BCE (MIDDLE NEOLITHIC)
HENGE DITCHES
STONEHENGE: THE THEORIES
SECOND STAGE: 2620–2480 BCE (LATE NEOLITHIC)
THIRD STAGE: 2480–2280 BCE (COPPER AGE)
FOURTH STAGE: 2280–2020 BCE (EARLY BRONZE AGE)
FIFTH STAGE: 1680–1520 BCE (MIDDLE BRONZE AGE)
PORTABLE OBJECTS
MEMORY SPACES, MINES AND MOVING ON
CHAPTER 6 THE MEGALITHIC COMPLEXES OF AVEBURY AND ORKNEY
AVEBURY
WINDMILL HILL
WEST KENNET LONG BARROW
AVEBURY HENGE
THE SANCTUARY
SILBURY HILL
ORKNEY
SKARA BRAE
CARVED STONE BALLS
STONES OF STENNESS
CHAMBERED CAIRNS
MAESHOWE
THE RING OF BRODGAR
CHAPTER 7 NEWGRANGE AND THE PASSAGE CAIRNS OF IRELAND
COUNTY MEATH PASSAGE CAIRNS
NEOLITHIC ART
THE PURPOSE OF THE PASSAGE CAIRNS
CIRCLES OF TIMBER AND STONE
DECORATED STONES
SMALLER PASSAGE CAIRNS ACROSS COUNTY MEATH
INDIVIDUAL BURIALS
CHAPTER 8 THE TALL STONES AND ENDLESS ROWS OF CARNAC
THE CARNAC MOUNDS AND THE TUMULUS DE SAINT-MICHEL
THE MIDDLE NEOLITHIC PASSAGE CAIRNS
THE STONE ROWS OF CARNAC
GALLERY AND LATERAL ENTRANCE GRAVES
CHAPTER 9 THE UNPARALLELED ARCHITECTURE OF CHACO CANYON
PUEBLO BONITO
LEARNING FROM CONTEMPORARY PUEBLO
THE ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS AT CHACO CANYON
GREAT HOUSES
ENIGMATIC DECORATED OBJECTS
BUYING KNOWLEDGE AT CHACO CANYON
CHAPTER 10 GIANT DRAWINGS ON THE DESERT FLOOR AT NASCA
ASTRONOMY
MAKING THE LINES
THE ANIMAL GLYPHS
TRAPEZOIDS, SQUARES AND RECTANGLES
STRAIGHT LINES DOMINATE THE PAMPA
TIME AND CHANGE ON THE PAMPA
CHAPTER 11 MEMORY SPACES ACROSS THE AMERICAS
THE HUNTER-GATHERERS OF WATSON BRAKE AND POVERTY POINT
MEMORY SPACES GROW MORE COMPLEX
WRITING REPRESENTS SOUND IN MESOAMERICA
THE EARTHWORKS OF NORTH AMERICA GAIN COMPLEXITY
THE LITERATE AZTECS AND NON-LITERATE INCA
CHAPTER 12 POLYNESIAN NAVIGATORS CREATE A UNIQUE WORLD ON EASTER ISLAND
THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS
THE AMAZING SKILL OF THE PACIFIC NAVIGATORS
ARRIVING ON EASTER ISLAND
SETTLING ANOTHER SMALL POLYNESIAN ISLAND: RAROTONGA
ADAPTING TO A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT: NEW ZEALAND
KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURED BY GENEALOGY
A MEMORY SPACE BEYOND THE SHORELINE
THE COLLAPSE OF A CULTURE
THE BIRDMAN CULT
ART IN MANY FORMS
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NOTES
INDEX
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