| Description |
1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Border crossings : the archaeology of borders and borderlands : an introduction / David Mullin -- All quiet on the Eastern Front / Anna McWilliams -- Bioarchaeology of border creation : from feast to famine along the medieval Anglo-Scottish border / Jaime Jennings -- Barrows and the boundary between the living and the dead / Richard Bradley & Elise Fraser -- The Neolithic and Bronze Age use of caves in western Britain / Jodie Lewis -- Sleipnir and his siblings : some thoughts on Lokiś monstrous offspring / Anne Monikander -- Constructing and deconstructing Roman city walls : the contribution of urban Enceintes to an understanding of the concept of borders / Isobel Pinder -- Historical and archaeological views of the Liao borderlands in northeast China / Naomi Standen & Gwen Bennett -- Towards an archaeology of borders and borderlands / David Mullin |
| Summary |
The concept of the border as a metaphor has been widely exploited across the Arts and Humanities and a body of Border Theory has been developed, critiqued and ""rethought"". It is remarkable that this body of theory has largely been ignored by archaeologists, who have instead preferred to examine social and cultural boundaries, frontiers, marginality and ethnicity. This book, which grew out of a session at TAG in 2008, explores some of the possibilities offered by the study of borders from an archaeological point of view and presents new perspectives on borders, both metaphorical and geographi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Borderlands.
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Social archaeology.
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Archaeology and history.
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marches (districts)
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historical archaeology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
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Archaeology and history
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Borderlands
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Social archaeology
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Frontières -- Archéologie.
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Archéologie sociale.
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Géoarchéologie.
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Gränser -- historia.
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Gränsmärken -- historia.
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Arkeologi -- sociala aspekter.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mullin, David, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781842175934 |
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1842175939 |
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9781842175910 |
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1842175912 |
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