Exploring prehistoric identity in Europe : our construct or theirs? / edited by Victoria Ginn, Rebecca Enlander and Rebecca Crozier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ginn, Victoria (Victoria R.), editor.

Enlander, Rebecca, editor.

Crozier, Rebecca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples.

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Identity is relational and a construct, and is expressed in a myriad of ways. For example, material culture and its pluralist meanings have been readily manipulated by humans in a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artefacts were often from or reminiscent of far-flung places and were used to demonstrate membership of an (imagined) regional, or European community. Earthworks frequently archive maximum visual impact through elaborate ramparts and entrances with the minimum amount of effort, indicating that the construction of identities were as much in the e

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword (Jim Mallory); Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Material culture of the dead; 2 Identity lies in the eye of the beholder: a consideration of identity in archaeological contexts; 3 Exceptional or conventional? Social identity within the chamber tomb of Quanterness, Orkney; 4 Is it possible to access identity through the osteoarchaeological record? Hindlow: a Bronze Age case study; Material culture of the living

5 Human bone as material culture of the living: a source of identity in the Irish Middle-Late Bronze Age?6 High and low: identity and status in Late Bronze Age Ireland; 7 Who lives in a roundhouse like this? Going through the keyhole on Bronze Age domestic identity; 8 Potty about pots: exploring identity through the prehistoric pottery assemblage of prehistoric Malta; 9 The Bronze Age smith as individual; Architectural and ritual expressions; 10 Under the same night sky - the architecture and meaning of Bronze Age stone circles in mid-Ulster

11 Reference, repetition and re-use: defining 'identities' through carved landscapes in the north of Ireland12 'Think tanks' in prehistory: problem solving and subjectivity at Nämforsen, northern Sweden; 13 Going through the motions: using phenomenology and 3D modelling to explore identity at Knowth, County Meath, during the Middle Neolithic; Our construct or theirs?; 14 The trowel as chisel: shaping modern Romanian identity through the Iron Age; 15 Broken mirrors? Archaeological reflections on identity

16 Concluding thoughts. Expanding identity: archaeology, the humanities, and the social sciencesColour Plates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781842177495

1842177494

9781842177471

1842177478