The memory code : the secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and other ancient monuments / Dr. Lynne Kelly.

Encyclopaedic memories of the elders. Indigenous knowledge of animals ; Indigenous knowledge of plants ; Performed and restricted knowledge ; Songlines ; Memory spaces and ancient Greeks ; Ceremonies serve a multiplicity of purposes ; Longevity of stories ; Integrated knowledge systems -- Memory spaces, large and small. Skyscapes of memory ; Miniature memory spaces ; Strings : twisted, turned and knotted ; Bundles of non-utilitarian objects ; Representation of mythological ancestors ; Pueblo corn stories : mythology and science ; Genealogies and totems -- Memory spaces in a modern world. The landscape as a memory space ; Skyscapes as a memory space ; Decks of cards as memory spaces ; Miniature memory spaces ; A myriad memory spaces --- A journey through time. The first modern humans ; Monumental memory spaces -- The ever-changing memory spaces at Stonehenge. A mind game of transition to settlement ; Stonehenge and the British Neolithic ; First stage : 3000-2920 BCE (Middle Neolithic) ; Henge ditches ; Stonehenge : the theories ; Second stage : 2620-2480 BCE (Late Neolithic) ; Third stage : 2480-2280 BCE (Copper Age) ; Fourth stage : 2280-2020 BCE (Early Bronze Age) ; Fifth stage : 1680-1520 BCE (Middle Bronze Age) ; Portable objects ; Memory spaces, mines and moving on -- The megalithic complexes of Avebury and Orkney. Avebury : Windmill Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, Avebury henge, The Sanctuary, Silbury Hill ; Orkney : Skara Brae, Carved stone balls, Stones of Stenness, Chambered cairns, Maeshowe, The Ring of Brodgar -- Newgrange and the passage cairns of Ireland. County Meath passage cairns ; Neolithic art ; The purpose of the passage cairns ; Circles of timber and stone ; Decorated stones ; Smaller passage cairns across County Meath ; Individual burials -- The tall stones and endless rows of Carnac. The Carnac Mounds and the Tumulus de Saint-Michel ; The Middle Neolithic passage cairns ; The stone rows of Carnac ; Gallery and lateral entrance graves -- The unparalleled architecture of Chaco Canyon. Pueblo Bonito ; Learning from contemporary Pueblo ; The Ancestral Puebloans at Chaco Canyon ; Great houses ; Enigmatic decorated objects ; Buying knowledge at Chaco Canyon -- Giants drawings on the desert floor at Nasca. Astronomy ; Making the lines ; The animal glyphs ; Trapezoids, squares and rectangles ; Straight lines dominate the pampa ; Time and change on the pampa -- Memory spaces across the Americas. The hunter-gatherers of Watson Brake and Poverty Point ; Memory spaces grow more complex ; Writing represents sound in Mesoamerica ; The earthworks of North America gain complexity ; The literate Aztecs and non-literate Inca -- Polynesian navigators create a unique world on Easter Island. The original settlers ; The amazing skill of the Pacific navigators ; Arriving on Easter Island ; Settling another small Polynesian island : Rarotonga ; Adapting to a different environment : New Zealand ; Knowledge structured by genealogy ; A memory space beyond the shoreline ; The collapse of a culture ; The Birdman cult ; Art in many forms.