The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age Roman and Medieval Europe 1st Edition by Marta Diaz Guardamino, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan, David Wheatley – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0198724608, 9780198724605
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ISBN 10: 0198724608
ISBN 13: 9780198724605
Author: Marta Diaz-Guardamino, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan, David Wheatley
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.
Table of contents:
Part I: Introduction
1.The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe: An Introduction
2.Before the Standing Stones: From Land Forms to Religious Attitudes and Monumentality
Part II: Case-Studies
3. Kings’ Jelling: Monuments with Outstanding Biographies in the Heart of Denmark
4. Icons of Antiquity: Remaking Megalithic Monuments in Ireland
5. Beowulf and Archaeology: Megaliths Imagined and Encountered in Early Medieval Europe
6. Myth, Memento, and Memory: Avebury (Wiltshire, England)
7. Les Pierres de Mémoire: The Life History of Two Statue-Menhirs from Guernsey, Channel Islands
8. Back and Forward: Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany
9. Enduring Past: Megalithic Tombs of Brittany and the Roman Occupation in Western France
10. The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain
11. Megaliths and Holy Places in the Genesis of the Kingdom of Asturias (North of Spain, AD 718–91)
12. Life and Death of Copper Age Monoliths at Ossimo Anvòia (Val Camonica, Italian Central Alps)
13. Biography of a Hill: Novi Pazar in South-Western Serbia
14. What Happens When Tombs Die? The Historical Appropriation of the Cretan Bronze Age Cemeteries
15. Roman Dolmens? The Megalithic Necropolises of Eastern Maghreb Revisited
Part III: Recapitulation and Conclusions
16. The Plot Against the Past: Reuse and Modification of Ancient Mortuary Monuments as Persuasive Effects
17. Piecing Together a Past
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