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Local identities : landscape and community in the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region / Fokke Gerritsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Gerritsen, Fokke Albert, author.
- Series:
- Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9.
- Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prehistoric peoples--Europe, Western.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Human settlements--Europe, Western.
- Human settlements.
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Europe, Western.
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
- Europe, Western--Antiquities.
- Europe, Western.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gerritsen's study investigates how small groups of people 'households, or local communities' constitute and represent their social identity by shaping the landscape around them. Examining things like house building and habitation, cremation and burial, and farming and ritual practice, Gerritsen develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective on the practices that create collective senses of identity and belonging. An explicitly diachronic approach reveals processes of cultural and social change that have previously gone unnoticed, providing a basis for a much more dynamic history of the late prehistoric inhabitants of this region.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Archaeology in a sandy 'essen' landscape
- 3. The house and its inhabitants
- 4. Local communities and the organisation of the landscape
- 5. Micro-regional and regional patterns of habitation, demography and land use
- 6. Landscape, identity and community in the first millennium BC
- Abbreviations / References
- Appendix 1. Meuse - Demer - Scheldt Region. Distribution of Urnfields
- Appendix 2. Catalogue Of Urn Fields
- Index Of Geographical Names
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).
- Thesis (doctoral) - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-3.0 Unported CC BY-NC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9786610958832
- 9781280958830
- 1280958839
- 9789048505142
- 9048505143
- 9780585498164
- 0585498164
- OCLC:
- 630532993
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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