Curves turning into squares. Late Prehistoric landscape change and the changing morphology of ritual structures. Causality? An assessment of the evidence

摘要: ABSTRACT During the later Bronze Age several parts of north-west Europe saw accelerated deforestation and expansion agricultural land. In densely populated areas first (man-made) open landscapes came into being. Simultaneously in Netherlands elsewhere more stable settlement patterns appeared as well extensive planned allotment. Within a relatively short period time landscape became much ‘cultural’ planned. The dominance straight lines rectangles this open, parcelled-out compartmentalised markedly contrasts with ‘natural’ curved organic' shapes preceding half- spatially dynamic ‘wood-pasture’ type landscapes. new had distinctly different morphology may have influenced way humans perceived their environment. This altered perception then explain shift from curvilinearity to rectilinearity shaping ritual enclosures burial monuments. sole ambition ...