Bradley, Richard, The past in prehistoric societies, Nueva York, Routledge, 2002, 171 pp. ISBN: 0-415-27628-4. $ 27,95.

Abstract

At Port Desire. About prehistory. Telling the time. Culture and material culture. About remembering. The past and the future in the past. 2. Acknowledging antiquity: towards an archaeology of distant origins. The enigma of arrival. Leaving home. Memories in earth and stone. Architects in contention. The statues that moved. The implications of malangan. Remembering by forgetting. Petit Chasseur. A summary. 3. Entering the present: legacies of the immediate past. Lifelines. Thinking about things. Moving house. Changing the landscape of Dartmoor. 4. Projecting future pasts: monuments and the formation of memory. Reading T/ze Great Wall of China. The memories of the future. In Scottish circles. Aosta. Carnac. A summary. 5. Remaking ancient pasts: from revision to revival. Interpretation, confrontation and legitimation. Scales of analysis. A summary. 6. Conclusion: prehistoric times. At Stourhead. Renewing the past. The past in field archaeology: the vertical and the horizontal. Coda: the garden of time. Bibliography. Index.