Landscape stability and the formation of social memory in prehistoric britain : a GIS-based study on the nature of fast and slow-changing landscapes / Christopher Dwan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dwan, Christopher, author.

Series:

BAR British series ; 690.

BAR British series ; 690

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology--Great Britain.

Landscape archaeology.

Historical geographic information systems.

Collective memory--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 145 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

People know places through inhabiting their textures and contours and relating places in space and time. Historically significant places come into being through inhabitation, and the world becomes sedimented with memories. These memories may be manifest within and referenced by materials. Prehistorians often interpret the creation and maintenance of social memory in evidence of long-term continuities of inhabitation and the veneration of ancient structures and the people who built and inhabited them. This study focuses on GIS methods in landscape archaeology, using case studies from Bodmin Moor and the Somerset Levels in southwestern Britain. By treating the landscape as an active participant in the processes of memory-making the book asks how a landscape's rate of change will affect the maintenance of memories across short and long timescales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407361789

1407361783

OCLC:

1504502029

Publisher Number:

CIPO000197638