The Past in the Past: the Re-use of Ancient Monuments: World Archaeology 30:1 by Richard Bradley
The first thematic issue on this topic
Highly illustrated with plates and photos
The Past in the Past: the Re-use of Ancient Monuments
Summary
Just as modern societies interpret ancient monuments and incorporate them in their political and cultural life, so people in the past often re-used their own monuments and places. This text is illustrated with plates and photographs and includes articles by international specialists.
The Past in the Past: the Re-use of Ancient Monuments Summary
About Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley
Table of Contents
Chapters include : Prehistoric histories; Ruined buildings, ruined stones: enclosures, tombs and natural places in the Neolithic of south-west England; The life-histories of megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany); Changing pasts and socio-political cognition in Late Bronze Age Cyprus; Sardinias nuraghi: four millennia of becoming; A tale of three sites: the monumentalization of Celtic oppida and the politics of collective memory and identity; Monuments and the past in early Anglo-Saxon England; A fear of the past: the place of the prehistoric burial mound in the ideology of Middle and Later Anglo-Saxon England; Reflections on the making of a royal site in early Ireland; Picts and prehistory: cultural resource management in early medieval Scotland; Rewriting landscape: incorporating sacred landscapes into cultural traditions
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NLS9780415198080
9780415198080
0415198089
The Past in the Past: the Re-use of Ancient Monuments: World Archaeology 30:1 by Richard Bradley
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1998-07-02
192
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