Mark Edmonds

Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic (eBook, PDF)

Landscapes, Monuments and Memory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic" is a vivid portrait of life in the small, dispersed communities of Neolithic Britain. Focusing on the landscape and monuments of the fourth millennium B.C., Mark Edmonds provides a dramatic interpretation of how these prehistoric peoples understood the world in which they lived. Central to this study is the idea that communities of the time thought about the land, and about themselves, in ways different from those we take for granted today. Kinship, ancestry, the presence of the dead, and various forms of affiliation were significant elements of their world view. These themes were brought into sharpest focus during gatherings at the monumental enclosures and tombs that appear in our record for the first time, where communities engaged in ancestral rights and acknowledged their ties to the land, to the past and to each other.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134629343
• Artikelnr.: 42653944

Autorenporträt

Mark Edmonds is Senior Lecturer in landscape archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Stone Tools and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Setting and Scenes
Origins
Ancestral Geographies
Keeping to the Path
Working Stone
A Gift from the Ancestors
The Living and the Dead
Attending to the Dead
A Time and a Place for Enclosure
Drawing the Line
Arenas of Value
The Pattern of Things
Changes in the Land
Post Excavation
Bibliography.