Format:
1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
ISBN:
9781474291927
Series Statement:
Debates in archaeology
Content:
This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change. Our challenge is to understand the worlds that made great projects like the building of Stonehenge or Mycenae possible. The radiocarbon revolution made the old view that the architecture of Mycenae influenced the building of Stonehenge untenable. But the recent use of 'big data' and of genetic histories have led archaeology back to a worldview where 'big problems' are assumed to require 'big solutions'. Making an animated plea for bottom-up rather than top-down solutions, the authors consider how life was made possible by living in the local and materially distinct worlds of the period. By considering how people once built connections between each other through their production and use of things, their movement between and occupancy of places, and their treatment of the dead, we learn about the kinds of identities that people constructed for themselves. Stonehenge did not require an architect from Mycenae for it to be built, but the builders of Stonehenge and Mycenae would have shared a mutual recognition of the kinds of humans that they were, and the kinds of practices these monuments were once host to
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-194) and index
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Foreword : 'Obscurity and Oblivion'? The Challenge of Interpreting the Prehistoric Past -- Colin Renfrew pp. xi-xiv -- Introduction pp. 1-10 -- Chapter 1. Archaeological Approaches to Stonehenge pp. 11-26 -- Chapter 2. The Emergence of an Aegean Civilization pp. 27-40 -- Chapter 3. Living with Things: The Politics of Identity pp. 41-52 -- Chapter 4. Things that Mattered: Identity in the Production, Exchange and Use of Materials pp. 53-90 -- Chapter 5. Places that Mattered: Movement and Belonging pp. 91-126 -- Chapter 6. Bodies that Mattered: The Role of the Dead pp. 127-164 -- Chapter 7. Living amongst Things: Practice, Place and Identity in Expanding Worlds pp. 165-170 -- Back matter -- References pp. 171-194 -- Index pp. 195-201
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474291903
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474291897
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350190825
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474291910
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781474291903
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Hardback version ISBN 9781474291897
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Paperback version ISBN 9781350190825
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781474291910
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474291927
