This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor-both ancient and modern-using a large number of literary genres and academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of archaeology.

Christopher Tilley, Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton

One: Introduction; One One: Stone Worlds, Alternative Narratives, Nested Landscapes; One Two: Bodmin Moor; One Three: Methodologies; Two: The Present Past; Two Four: The Old Sacred Places; Two Five: Leskernick; Two Six: The Western Settlement; Two Seven: Time Goes On; Two Eight: The Shrine Stone; Two Nine: Nature, Culture, Clitter 1; Two: Photo Essay Moving in Procession across Brown Willy; Three: The Present Past; Three Ten: Introduction to the Sociological Study of the Leskernick Project; Three Eleven: The Book and the Trowel; Three Twelve: Where Worlds Collide; Three Thirteen: Art and the Re-Presentation of the Past 1; Four: Beyond the Hill; Four Fourteen: Other Ways of Telling; Four Fifteen: Letting Go; Four Sixteen: Movement across the Moor; Four Seventeen: Between Moor and Plain; Four Eighteen: Beyond the Moor; Four Nineteen: Solution Basins