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Перевод: neolithic

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неолитический

Тезаурус:

1. Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex, though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each.
2. It used to form part of a larger circle, probably Neolithic, and up until fairly recent times, four upright stones remained.
3. The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads, goes through Saintbury Church, noted for its pagan survivals, through a Bronze Age round barrow, a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort, through a Saxon pagan cemetery, and an eighteenth-century beacon tower, ending at an ancient farmstead, Seven Wells - which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl .
4. Very comfortable we were too, as no doubt were the first occupants, Neolithic men and their families.
5. This very early phase of the Bronze Age was also marked by the appearance of a distinctive ceramic form called the Beaker, which also lends its name to this period of transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.
6. Each place has a special story to tell and offers a new experience of history: from neolithic man to Roman invasion, from William the Conqueror to the Civil War, from the Restoration to Queen Victoria and beyond.
7. Petrology has been particularly helpful in identifying Neolithic stone axes made from the hard rocks which predominate in western Britain from Cornwall to Scotland.
8. It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers.
9. (One church, at Knowlton, Dorset, stands within a neolithic monument and ceremonial circle.)
10. Investigations in the area - part of the valley of the river Wolf, north-west of Dartmoor - have revealed evidence of human activity dating from neolithic times.
11. But Neolithic tribesmen and Iron Age warriors left their mark on these slopes thousands of years before Ranulf, Earl of Chester, built his fortress in the thirteenth century.
12. More serious, probably, was the extensive deforestation carried out by neolithic farmers from around 8000 BC onwards: a deforestation which, for example, denuded Scotland in the centuries before the Romans came.
13. Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae, and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC.