A few thoughts inspired by a book
A few thoughts inspired by a book

Summary/Abstract: In 2007, Left Coast Press (Walnut Creek, California) published a book signed by Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton and Chris Tilley, entitled Stone worlds: narrative and reflexivity in landscape archaeology (fig. 1). The book refers to the multidisciplinary researches carried out between 1995 and 1999 on the prehistoric, but also contemporary landscape at Leskernick, a small hill in Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, south-western of United Kingdom. The oldest monument at Leskernick seems to be a large propped stone located on the hilltop, which was probably built in the Neolithic or even Mesolithic. Chronologically, the Propped Stone is succeeded by a series of small cairns, of which one contains a cist, most of them placed near the foot of the hill and one on the hill, and which could presumably be included in a time period that ranges from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. Another cairn, but of a large size, was built in the Early Bronze Age on the top of the hill. Later on, in Early/Middle Bronze Age, possibly before the inhabitation of the hill, a stone row and two stone circles were built below the hill. In the Middle Bronze Age, on the southern and western sides of the hill two settlements separated by a corridor that leads to the top of the hill appeared; the settlements were associated with enclosures and compounds, and were formed of 50 round houses. Research had been carried out both on the Leskernick Hill and in the surrounding area, on the

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