The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Díaz-Guardamino, Marta; Wheatley, David; García Sanjuán, Leonardo

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ideological and political significance. Through the advancement of theoretical approaches and scientific methodologies, archaeologists have been able to investigate how some of these monuments provide resources to negotiate memories, identities, and power and social relations throughout European history. The essays in this collection examine the life-histories of carefully chosen megalithic monuments, stelae and statue-menhirs, and rock art sites of various European and Mediterranean regions during the Iron Age and Roman and Medieval times. By focusing on the concrete interaction between people, monuments, and places, the volume offers an innovative outlook on a variety of debated issues. Prominent among these is the role of ancient remains in the creation, institutionalization, contestation, and negotiation of social identities and memories, as well as their relationship with political economy in early historic European societies. By contributing to current theoretical debates on materiality, landscape, and place-making, The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe seeks to overcome disciplinary boundaries between prehistory and history, and highlight the long-term, genealogical nature of our engagement with the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191036866
• Artikelnr.: 43985066

Autorenporträt

Marta Díaz-Guardamino is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the later prehistory of Western Europe, particularly on archaeological art, megalithic monuments, and landscapes. Her research interests include the application of social theory and digital imaging technologies to archaeological enquiry. Leonardo García Sanjuán is a Senior Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Seville, and has previously occupied academic positions at the universities of Southampton and Bradford. His main field of interest is social complexity in the late prehistory of Iberia, with a special focus on funerary practices and monumental architecture. David Wheatley is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton whose research interests include the later prehistory of Western Europe, GIS-based approaches to the analysis of archaeological sites and landscapes, and digital imaging. More recently, his research has centred on the social prehistory of southern Iberia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* Contributors
* Part I: Introduction
* 1: Marta Díaz-Guardamino, Leonardo García Sanjuán, and David
Wheatley: The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Europe: An
Introduction
* 2: Joyce E. Salisbury: Before the Standing Stones: From Land Forms to
Religious Attitudes and Monumentality
* Part II: Case Studies
* 3: Steen Hvass: Kings' Jelling: Monuments with Outstanding
Biographies in the Heart of Denmark
* 4: Gabriel Cooney: Icons of Antiquity: Remaking Megalithic Monuments
in Ireland
* 5: Howard Williams: Beowulf and Archaeology: Megaliths Imagined and
Encountered in Early Medieval Europe
* 6: David Wheatley: Myth, Memento and Memory: Avebury (Wiltshire,
England)
* 7: Heather Sebire: Les Pierres de Memoire: The Life History of two
Statue-Menhirs from Guernsey, Channel Islands
* 8: Luc Laporte, Marie-Yvane Daire, Gwenolé Kerdivel and Elías
López-Romero: Back and Forward: Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron
Age Stelae in French Brittany
* 9: Mara Vejby: Enduring Past: Megalithic Tombs of Brittany and the
Roman Occupation in Western France
* 10: Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino: The
Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman
and Medieval Spain
* 11: Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina: Megaliths and Holy Places in the
Genesis of the Kingdom of Asturias (North of Spain, AD 718-910)
* 12: Francesco Fedele: Life and Death of Copper Age Monoliths at
Ossimo Anvòia (Val Camonica, Italian Central Alps), 3000 BC-AD 1950
* 13: Staa Babi¿: Biography of a Hill - Novi Pazar in South Western
Serbia
* 14: Borja Legarra Herrero: What Happens When Tombs Die? The
Historical Appropriation of the Cretan Bronze Age Cemeteries
* 15: Joan Sanmartí, Nabil Kallala, Rafel Jornet, M. Carme Belarte,
Joan Canela, Sarhane Chérif, Jordi Campillo, David Montanero, Xavier
Bermúdez, Thaïs Fadrique, Víctor Revilla, Joan Ramon, and Moncef Ben
Moussa: Roman Dolmens? The Megalithic Necropolises of Eastern Maghreb
Revisited
* Part III: Recapitulation and Conclusions
* 16: Estella Weiss-Krejci: The Plot against the Past: Reuse and
Modification of Ancient Mortuary Monuments as Persuasive Efforts of
Appropriation
* 17: Richard Bradley: Piercing together a Past
* Index