ATU Sligo /ATU St Angela's

go

Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Memory, myth and long-term landscape inhabitation /

Contributor(s): Koch, John T | Gibson, Catriona D | Chadwick, Adrian M.
Series: Celtic studies publications ; xvii.Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2013Description: xi, 347 p. : Ill. ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1782973931; 9781782973935:; 9781782973935.Subject(s): Collective memory -- History -- To 1500 | Landscape archaeology | Land settlement -- History -- To 1500 | Land use -- History | Collective memory | Social archaeology | Land settlement -- HistoryDDC classification: 930.1
Contents:
Foreword: Spacing time and timing space / Richard Bradley -- "Do you remember the first time?" : a preamble through memory, myth and place / Adrian M. Chadwick and Catriona D. Gibson -- Narrating the house : the transformation of longhouses in early Neolithic Europe / Daniela Hofmann -- Memory, myth, place and landscape inhabitation : a perspective from the South-West Peninsula / Andy M. Jones -- Mounds, memories and myths : ancient monuments and place in the Leicestershire landscape / John Thomas -- Out of time but not out of place : tempo, rhythm and dynamics of inhabitation in southern England / Catriona D. Gibson -- Landesque capital and the development of the British uplands in later prehistory : investigating the accretion of cairns, cairnfields, memories and myths in ancient agricultural landscapes / Andrew W. Hoaen and Helen L. Loney -- Re-building memory, identity and place : the long term re-use of prehistoric settlements on the Isles of Scilly / Gary Robinson --The significance of goats and chickens? : Iron Age and Roman faunal assemblages, depositional practices and memory work at Wattle Syke, West Yorkshire / Adrian M. Chadwick, Louise Martin and Jane Richardson -- Telling tales? : myth, memory, and Crickley Hill / Kirsten Jarrett -- The MTV generations : remixing the past in prehistory, or forgetting to change old habits / Gareth Chaffey and Alistair Barclay -- "Landscape is time materialising" : a study of embodied experience and memory in Egypt's Eastern Desert / Anna Garnett -- Moving through memories : site distribution, performance and practice in rural Etruria / Lucy Shipley -- Castelo Velho and Prazo (Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal) : the oral tradition / Alexandra Vieira -- Land, myth and language : the preservation of social memories / Mara Vejby and Jocelyn Ahlers -- "Memories can't wait" : creating histories, materialising memories and making myths in Iron Age and Romano-British landscapes / Adrian M. Chadwick -- Granny's old sheep bones and other stories from the Melton landscape / Chris Fenton-Thomas.
Summary: This volume interweaves theoretical considerations of memory, materiality and landscape with exciting evidence emerging from research and developer-funded commercial archaeology, challenging existing methodologies and proposing new research questions for future fieldwork and post-excavation practice.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 930.1 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0091300
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Spacing time and timing space / Richard Bradley -- "Do you remember the first time?" : a preamble through memory, myth and place / Adrian M. Chadwick and Catriona D. Gibson -- Narrating the house : the transformation of longhouses in early Neolithic Europe / Daniela Hofmann -- Memory, myth, place and landscape inhabitation : a perspective from the South-West Peninsula / Andy M. Jones -- Mounds, memories and myths : ancient monuments and place in the Leicestershire landscape / John Thomas -- Out of time but not out of place : tempo, rhythm and dynamics of inhabitation in southern England / Catriona D. Gibson -- Landesque capital and the development of the British uplands in later prehistory : investigating the accretion of cairns, cairnfields, memories and myths in ancient agricultural landscapes / Andrew W. Hoaen and Helen L. Loney -- Re-building memory, identity and place : the long term re-use of prehistoric settlements on the Isles of Scilly / Gary Robinson --The significance of goats and chickens? : Iron Age and Roman faunal assemblages, depositional practices and memory work at Wattle Syke, West Yorkshire / Adrian M. Chadwick, Louise Martin and Jane Richardson -- Telling tales? : myth, memory, and Crickley Hill / Kirsten Jarrett -- The MTV generations : remixing the past in prehistory, or forgetting to change old habits / Gareth Chaffey and Alistair Barclay -- "Landscape is time materialising" : a study of embodied experience and memory in Egypt's Eastern Desert / Anna Garnett -- Moving through memories : site distribution, performance and practice in rural Etruria / Lucy Shipley -- Castelo Velho and Prazo (Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal) : the oral tradition / Alexandra Vieira -- Land, myth and language : the preservation of social memories / Mara Vejby and Jocelyn Ahlers -- "Memories can't wait" : creating histories, materialising memories and making myths in Iron Age and Romano-British landscapes / Adrian M. Chadwick -- Granny's old sheep bones and other stories from the Melton landscape / Chris Fenton-Thomas.

This volume interweaves theoretical considerations of memory, materiality and landscape with exciting evidence emerging from research and developer-funded commercial archaeology, challenging existing methodologies and proposing new research questions for future fieldwork and post-excavation practice.

Share