摘要：
The mid - seventh millennium BP witnessed the emergence of a European pictographic language based on a common repertoire of abstract and fi gurative motifs. Although largely confi ned to passage grave communities occupying the coastal fringes of Atlantic Europe, the megalithic art tradition unifi ed much of the Neolithic world from the Mediterranean to northern Scotland over a period of some 3,000 years. The art itself appears to have acted as a personal signature, unique to each monument and its builders, but drawing on a limited set of symbols. This chapter explores the geographic extent of this mainly abstract motif repertoire, and proposes that, over time and space, key symbols may have changed their meaning(s).
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