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A geography of offerings : deposits of valuables in the landscapes of ancient Europe / Richard Bradley.
Penn Museum Library GN803 .B6583 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley, Richard, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Oxbow insights in archaeology
- Oxbow insights in archaeology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoards, Prehistoric--Europe.
- Hoards, Prehistoric.
- Landscape archaeology--Europe.
- Landscape archaeology.
- Archaeological assemblages--Europe.
- Archaeological assemblages.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Europe.
- Archaeology--Methodology.
- Archaeology.
- Europe--Antiquities.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- The deliberate deposition of hoards and votive deposits is a complex phenomenon that occurs across all periods from prehistory to the early Middle Ages. A Geography of Offerings has been written to provoke debate among archaeologists and has two main aims. The first is to move away From the minute study of ancient objects to a more ambitious analysis of ancient places and landscapes. The second is to recognise that problems of interpretation are not restricted to the pre-Roman period. Archaeologists studying individual periods from the Mesolithic to the first millennium AD confront similar issues - but they arrive at different conclusions.' Bradley presents a review and critique of current thinking that brings these discussions together and extends across the entire sequence, encompassing both sacrificial deposits characterised by large quantities of animal and human bones and collections dominated by finds of stone or metal artefacts. Including current theory, the histories of individual artefacts, the landscape and physical context of places where they were deposited, the character of materials, the importance of animism and the nature of ancient cosmologies, this is a key work for all archaeologists. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Beginning Again 1
- 2 A Chapter of Accidents 8
- 3 Faultlines in Contemporary Research 31
- 4 Proportional Representation 58
- 5 The Hoard as a Still Life 80
- 6 The Nature of Things 106
- 7 A Kind of Regeneration 124
- 8 Vanishing Points 142
- 9 A Guide to Strange Places 160
- 10 Thresholds and Transitions 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222).
- ISBN:
- 9781785704772
- 178570477X
- OCLC:
- 957747633
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