| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction / Katina T. Lillios and Vasileios Tsamis -- Natural substances, landscape forms, symbols and funerary monuments : elements of cultural memory among the Neolithic and copper age societies of southern Spain / Leonardo García Sanjuán and David W. Wheatley -- Mnemonic practices of the Iberian Neolitic : the production and use of the engraved slate plaque-relics / Katina T. Lillios -- The art of memory : personal ornaments in copper age south-east Italy / Robin Skeates -- Burning matters : memory, violence and monumentality in the British neolithic / Andrew Jones -- Layers of memory : an embodied approach to the late bronze age of central Macedonia, Greece / Vasileios Tsamis -- Memory, landscape, and body in bronze age Denmark / Janet E. Levy -- Memory maps : the mnemonics of central European iron age burial mounds / Bettina Arnold -- Memories of features, memories in finds. The remembrance of the past in iron age Scandinavia / Lars Larsson -- Re-collecting the fragments : archaeology as mnemonic practice / Yannis Hamilakis |
| Summary |
How did ancient Europeans materialize memory? Material Mnemonics: Everyday Practices in Prehistoric Europe provides a fresh approach to the archaeological study of memory. Drawing on case studies from the British Isles, Scandinavia, central Europe, Greece, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic through the Iron Age, the book's authors explore the implications of our understanding of the past when memory and mnemonic practices are placed in the center of cultural analyses. They discuss monument building, personal adornment, relic-making, mortuary rituals, the burning of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Europe
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Social archaeology -- Europe
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Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Europe
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Europe
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Mnemonics -- Social aspects -- Europe
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe
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SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Memory Improvement.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Anthropology, Prehistoric
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Prehistoric peoples
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Social archaeology
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lillios, Katina T., 1960-
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Tsamis, Vasileios
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| LC no. |
2010029645 |
| ISBN |
1842177850 |
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9781842177853 |
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