Harold Mytum

Gebundenes Buch

Monumentality in Later Prehistory

Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort

Beschreibung

This volume provides the results of a 30-year excavation, reconstruction, and public interpretation campaign at the late prehistoric settlement of Castell Henllys. It offers careful consideration of the changing roles of heritage in cultural politics.

Autor

Harold Mytum MA (Cambridge) DPhil (Oxford) FSA is Director of the Centre for Manx Studies and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. His fieldwork at Castell Henllys and other regional sites has continued over 30 years, partly within a field school training context (Global Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools. Constructions of knowledge and experience. New York: Springer, 2012). He has written numerous articles and book chapters on reconstruction and public interpretation at Castell Henllys, and a monograph, journal articles, and book chapters on the later prehistory of the region (Williams and Mytum Llawhaden, Dyfed: Excavations on a group of small defended enclosures, 1980-4. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994). Harold is also well known for his historical archaeology research (Recording and Analysing Graveyards. Council for British Archaeology Handbook 15. York: Council for British Archaeology, 2000; Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004; Carr and Mytum eds Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire. New York: Routledge, 2012; Mytum and Carr eds Prisoners of War: archaeology, memory and heritage of 19th- and 20th-century mass internment. New York: Springer, 2013).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86187767, 978-1-4614-8026-6
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 788g
• ISBN-13: 9781461480266
• ISBN-10: 1461480264
• Artikelnr.: 38107443