The lives of prehistoric monuments in iron age, roman and medieval Europe / edited by Marta Diaz-Guardamino, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan, and David Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Díaz-Guardamino, Marta, editor.

García Sanjuán, Leonardo, editor.

Wheatley, David, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Megalithic monuments--Europe.

Megalithic monuments.

Europa.

Europe.

Local Subjects:

Europa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Roman and medieval times. By focusing on the concrete interaction between people, monuments and places, they offer an innovative outlook on a variety of debated issues, inlcuding the role of ancient remains in the creation, institutionalisation, contestation and negotiation of social identities and memories, and their relationship with political economy in early European societies.

Contents:

Cover

The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe

Copyright

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Part I: Introduction

1: The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe: An Introduction

WORDS, NATURE, AND MONUMENTS

MONUMENTS, POLITICS, AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

COROLLARY: TOWARDS SUITABLE CONCEPTS?

REFERENCES

2: Before the Standing Stones: From Land Forms to Religious Attitudes and Monumentality

INTRODUCTION

THE STUDY OF PERSISTENT BELIEFS

EARLY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

SACRED MOUNTAINS

SACRED CAVES AND SUPERNATURAL WATERS

CONCLUSIONS

Part II: Case-Studies

3: Kings' Jelling: Monuments with Outstanding Biographies in the Heart of Denmark

INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH HISTORY OF THE SITE

THE 'PAGAN' MONUMENT (MID TENTH CENTURY AD)

THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MONUMENT (LATE TENTH CENTURY AD)

THE SECOND CHRISTIAN MONUMENT (LATE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES AD)

JELLING IN MODERN HISTORY (SIXTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES AD)

CONCLUSION

4: Icons of Antiquity: Remaking Megalithic Monuments in Ireland

INTRODUCTION: THE ENDURANCE OF MEGALITHS

TARA, NEWGRANGE, AND KNOWTH: A HISTORIC SUMMARY

TARA: BUILDING A LINEAGE FROM THE PAST

KNOWTH: REVITALIZING THE PAST

NEWGRANGE: ANOTHER WORLD

DIFFERENT MONUMENTS, DIFFERENT LIVES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

5: Beowulf and Archaeology: Megaliths Imagined and Encountered in Early Medieval Europe

THE DRAGON'S MOUND IN BEOWULF

A BIOGRAPHY FOR THE DRAGON'S MOUND

THE MOUND'S ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALITY

THE TREASURE'S MATERIALITY

THE DRAGON'S MATERIALITY

6: Myth, Memento, and Memory: Avebury (Wiltshire, England).

BIOGRAPHY, MEMORY, AND MEMENTO

PREHISTORIC MEMENTOS

ROMAN AND SAXON ENCOUNTERS

BURIAL OF STONES IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

THE (EARLY MODERN) HEAT IS ON

THE MYTH OF THE 'REAL' AVEBURY

LIVES, AFTERLIVES, MEMENTOS, AND MEMORIES

7: Les Pierres de Mémoire: The Life History of Two Statue-Menhirs from Guernsey, Channel Islands

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS

THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT

EARLY LIFE: DATING OF THE STATUE-MENHIRS

Other anthropomorphic stones in Guernsey

TWO EXCEPTIONAL STATUE-MENHIRS: HISTORICAL DISCOVERY

Le Câtel menhir

La Gran'mère du Chim'quière

THE LIVES OF THE GUERNSEY STATUE-MENHIRS IN THE ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS AND BEYOND

Le Câtel Menhir

The statue-menhirs in the modern day

CONCLUSIONS: THE ONGOING LIFE HISTORIES OF THE MENHIRS

Anthropomorphic form

The Roman period

The Medieval period

8: Back and Forward: Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany

REUSE OF MEGALITHS AND STANDING STONES IN WESTERN FRANCE

NEOLITHIC 'MENHIRS' IN BRITTANY

IRON AGE 'STELAE' IN BRITTANY

BACK AND FORTH

9: Enduring Past: Megalithic Tombs of Brittany and the Roman Occupation in Western France

THE REUSE OF MEGALITHIC TOMBS IN ROMAN BRITTANY: AN INTRODUCTION

MEGALITHIC TOMBS AND VENUS STATUETTES ALONG THE GULF OF MORBIHAN

DISCUSSING THE EVIDENCE AND PIECING TOGETHER THE PAST

10: The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain

MEGALITHIC FUNERARY MONUMENTS

STELAE, STATUE-MENHIRS, AND ROCK ART

11: Megaliths and Holy Places in the Genesis of the Kingdom of Asturias (North of Spain, ad 718-910)

INTRODUCTION.

THE SANTA CRUZ DOLMEN

PREHISTORIC MONUMENTS AND 'SIGNIFICANT PLACES' IN THE RISE OF THE ASTURIAN MONARCHY

DISCUSSING CONTINUITIES BETWEEN THE NEOLITHIC AND THE MIDDLE AGES

A FINAL REMARK: THE CONTINUITY OF THE MEGALITHIC SITES AS PARISH ENTITIES

12: Life and Death of Copper Age Monoliths at Ossimo Anvòia (Val Camonica, Italian Central Alps), 3000 bc-ad 1950

CONTEXT AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

Anvòia I

Anvòia II

Anvòia III

DISCUSSION: THE 'HISTORICAL' PERIOD

Fourth century AD

Modern period

13: Biography of a Hill: Novi Pazar in South-Western Serbia

THE EMERGING STATE

THE 'ILLYRIAN-GREEK TREASURE'

OVERLAPPINGS

DEMARCATIONS

TRANSFORMATIONS IN SPACE AND TIME

14: What Happens When Tombs Die? The Historical Appropriation of the Cretan Bronze Age Cemeteries

THE ALWAYS PRESENT BRONZE AGE LANDSCAPE

THE RICHNESS OF RESPONSES: BRONZE AGE TOMBS ON CRETE

WHAT ROLE FOR THE PAST: HELLENIC DEVOTEES OR ROMAN ROBBERS?

THE BRONZE AGE TOMBS OF CRETE: AXIS OF INTERPRETATION

15: Roman Dolmens? The Megalithic Necropolises of Eastern Maghreb Revisited

STATE OF THE ART

THE NATIONAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE (INSTITUT NATIONAL DU PATRIMOINE, INP)/UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (UB) 'ALTHIBUROS PROJECT'

THE MEGALITHIC NECROPOLIS OF EL KSOUR

DISCUSSION

Part III: Recapitulation and Conclusions

16: The Plot Against the Past: Reuse and Modification of Ancient Mortuary Monuments as Persuasive Efforts of Appropriation

DISCONTINUOUS REUSE OF MONUMENTS AS ACTS OF APPROPRIATION

STRATEGIES OF APPROPRIATION AND THE USE OF MORTUARY MONUMENTS: LESSONS FROM HISTORY

Evocation of appropriated ancestors in the House of Habsburg.

Evocation of the past at Gamla Uppsala (Sweden)

17: Piecing Together a Past

INTRODUCTION: ONE PAST OR MANY PASTS?

COMMEMORATING THE FUTURE

IMPROVISATION AND THE LIMITS OF MEMORY: THE RELEVANCE OF ORAL LITERATURE

MONUMENTS, MEMENTOS, AND MEMORIALS

PROCESSES, EVENTS, AND INTERPRETATIONS

ESTABLISHING LEGITIMACY

COEXISTENCE AND CONFRONTATION

ASSUMPTIONS AND ERRORS

THE PERSISTENCE OF THE HUMAN FORM

SCOTTISH STONE CIRCLES-A SUCCESSION OF DIFFERENT PASTS

The past in 2000 BC

The past in 1500-800 BC

The past in AD 100

The past in AD 600

CONCLUSION-PIECES OF A PAST

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-191682-X

0-19-103686-2

OCLC:

925780177