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: 930.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.