caa a22 4500 386372462 CHVBK 20180307112002.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0079497X00005430 doi S0079497X00005430 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0079497X00005430 Barclay G. J. Ancient Monuments Inspectorate, SDD, Historic Buildings and Monuments Directorate, 20 Brandon Street, Edinburgh Henge Monuments: Reappraisal or Reductionism? [Elektronische Daten] [G. J. Barclay] Classification has been a fundamental tool in archaeology since the birth of the discipline, particularly in artefactual analysis. All artefacts, including field monuments, have a limitless variety of characteristics and their reduction into a system of classification necessitates the selection, summarization and simplification of those characteristics regarded as diagnostic in order to clarify groupings of related monuments which might otherwise be obscured by concentration on detail. While some doubt has been cast on the value of the classification of henge monuments as an internally coherent group (and the discovery of many more sites has certainly done little to consolidate that coherence) it can still be argued that a strictly defined class of henge is a useful contribution to our understanding (Harding 1987). Other classes of monument of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC which seem to have ceremonial/funerary functions have also been defined, such as enclosed cremation cemeteries, recumbent stone circles, postcircles, ring cairns, ring ditches and so on. It is widely agreed that there are complex relationships between these various types and their myriad hybrids, or at least that comparisons can be made between various constructional elements. Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1989 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Cambridge University Press 55(1989), 260-262 0079-497X 55<260 1989 55 PPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00005430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00005430 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Barclay G. J. Ancient Monuments Inspectorate, SDD, Historic Buildings and Monuments Directorate, 20 Brandon Street, Edinburgh NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Cambridge University Press 55(1989), 260-262 0079-497X 55<260 1989 55 PPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge