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Material mnemonics : everyday memory in prehistoric Europe / edited by Katina T. Lillios and Vasileios Tsamis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prehistoric peoples--Europe.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Social archaeology--Europe.
- Social archaeology.
- Anthropology, Prehistoric--Europe.
- Anthropology, Prehistoric.
- Memory--Social aspects--Europe.
- Memory.
- Mnemonics--Social aspects--Europe.
- Mnemonics.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric--Europe.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How did ancient Europeans materialize memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic through the Iron Age, the book's authors explore the implications of our understanding of the past when memory and mnemonic practices are placed in the center of cultural analyses. They discuss monument building, personal adornment, relic-making, mortuary rituals, the burning of
- Contents:
- Cover; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Natural substances, landscape forms, symbols and funerary monuments: Elements of cultural memory among the Neolithic and Copper Age societies of southern Spain; 3. Mnemonic practices of the Iberian Neolithic: The production and use of the engraved slate plaque-relics; 4. The art of memory: Personal ornaments in Copper Age South-East Italy; 5. Burning matters: Memory, violence and monumentality in the British Neolithic; 6. Layers of memory: An embodied approach to the Late Bronze Age of Central Macedonia, Greece
- 7. Memory, landscape, and body in Bronze Age Denmark 8. Memory maps: The mnemonics of central European Iron Age burial mounds; 9. Memories of features, memories in finds. The remembrance of the past in Iron Age Scandinavia; 10. Re-collecting the fragments: Archaeology as mnemonic practice
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-48518-9
- 1-84217-785-0
- OCLC:
- 840466765
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