Remembering, forgetting and the invention of tradition: burial and natural places in the English Early Bronze Age.

Introduction

Recently, the central role of memory in preserving, transmitting and negotiating material culture has rightly been stressed (see for example Gosden & Lock 1998; Bradley 2000: 155-8; Bradley & Williams 1998). These theories of memory have been applied to Neolithic and Early Bronze Age monuments and arguments have been formulated to try to explain the relationship between monuments, space and (natural) place(s) (Tilley 1994; Thomas 1999; Bradley 2000). Often these arguments centre around the `commemoration' of place by monuments (Thomas 1999), the ...

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