The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Author: Richard Bradley
Year: 2007
Source type: Scholarly monograph

Core Argument

Prehistoric monuments are embedded in landscape cognition systems. Stone circles, henges, and cairns structure space according to how communities understood and navigated their world. Architecture reflects cognitive mapping, not just ritual function.

Relationship to Kelly's Work

Bradley's landscape cognition framework supports Kelly's spatial indexing thesis. Monuments are cognitive anchors in the landscape—exactly what the method of loci framework predicts.

Key Contribution

Demonstrates that landscape organization + monument placement = systematic epistemological structure for knowledge storage and retrieval.