Cultures of stone : an interdisciplinary approach to the materiality of stone / edited by Gabriel Cooney [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooney, Gabriel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--History.

Archaeology.

Stone--Social aspects.

Stone.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2020]

Summary:

This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone. Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such as monumentality and remembrance; its enduring character creating a link through generations to both people and place. This volume brings together a collection of seventeen papers which draw on a range of diverse disciplines and approaches; including archaeology, anthropology, classics, design and engineering, fine arts, geography, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sciences.

Contents:

Intro

List of figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Constructing identities through stone

Part one

The relationship between stone and life in the 19th- and 20th-century quarry town of Texas, Maryland

Adam Fracchia

Egyptian stones for the imperial metropolis, and beyond

Hazel Dodge

Local marble as a potential inspiration for producing limestone exchange valuables in palau, micronesia

Bosiljka Glumac, Scott M. Fitzpatrick

Models of sculpture production in the early middle ages (8th-9th centuries AD)

Michelle Beghelli

Making, Building and Re-imagining in Stone

Contemporary prehistoric stone-tool design

Dov Ganchrow

The oratory of power through form and materiality

Suzanne O'Neill

Stone fisheries and their role in shaping the cultural landscape of the Minho River Valley, Portugal

Rui Madail, Miguel Malheiro

Dialectics of impermanence in Josef Sudek's Prague

Adele Tutter

Encountering the prehistoric past in West Cornwall

Elizabeth Pratt

Preserving the Downpatrick High Cross

Michael King

Stone in Ritual Space and Practice

Symbolism in Irish round towers

Sarah Kerr

The materiality of fire and flames on Roman cinerary urns

Liana Brent

Stone-grave building at the cemetery of Les Tombes at Estagel (Pyrénées-Orientales, France)

Joan Pinar Gil

A case study of the cult of Apollo and Zeus

Erica Angliker

Hermes and the stone cairn in Greek Antiquity

Jessica Doyle

The significance and meaning of stone artefacts and their sources to Aboriginal People in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

Edward M. McDonald, Bryn Coldrick

Ethnographic analogies for the ritual use of rock crystal

Thomas Hess

Afterword: The flexibility of stone

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-8890-893-1