The Past in the Past: The Re-Use of Ancient Monuments

World Archaeology 30:1
Herausgeber: Bradley, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Just as modern societies interpret ancient monuments and incorporate them in their political and cultural life, so people in the past often re-used their own monuments and places. This text is illustrated with plates and photographs and includes articles by international specialists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781138405240
• ISBN-10: 1138405248
• Artikelnr.: 48952263

Autorenporträt

Richard Bradley

Inhaltsangabe

Chapters include : Prehistoric histories; Ruined buildings, ruined stones:
enclosures, tombs and natural places in the Neolithic of south-west
England; The life-histories of megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(Germany); Changing pasts and socio-political cognition in Late Bronze Age
Cyprus; Sardinias nuraghi: four millennia of becoming; A tale of three
sites: the monumentalization of Celtic oppida and the politics of
collective memory and identity; Monuments and the past in early Anglo-Saxon
England; A fear of the past: the place of the prehistoric burial mound in
the ideology of Middle and Later Anglo-Saxon England; Reflections on the
making of a royal site in early Ireland; Picts and prehistory: cultural
resource management in early medieval Scotland; Rewriting landscape:
incorporating sacred landscapes into cultural traditions