Мегалитите в миналото и настоящето/ Megaliths in the past and present, Константинос Марицас / Konstantinos Maritsas, Домоплан, 2011 - Български книжици
Megaliths in the Past and Present offers provocative, sometimes strongly distinct from the generally accepted, insight into the ways of megaliths cultural interpretation.
Megalithic culture has been the subject of studying for years, but Constantinos Maritsas argues that a new cultural mode of its interpretation will help us to understand the very important epoch of human history.
The necessity of megaliths` creation has appeared in the process of transition from the natural selection to civilization. The author emphasizes the original assignment of megalithic monuments: dolmens, menhirs, cromlechs, effigy mounds etc. So he analyses the most popular of existing hypotheses. Megalith is shown as a scene of primordial theatrical performances when the struggle for survival has been replaced with the symbolic fight-dance and the stones have been used for imitation of necessary natural objects.
This book shows us megaliths we did not know. It shows the organic ties connecting megaliths' origin, their history and their contemporary existence in different, sometimes unusual, forms.
The main theoretical ideas are illustrated with well-known and new material from different cultures. The reader can see very interesting pictures from Machu Piechu, Bulgaria, Gobekli-Tepe, Stonehenge, Korea, Israel etc.
This book is useful and fascinating reading for anyone interested in the field of cultural studies.
