Title Local identities : landscape and community in the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region / Fokke Gerritsen

Edition Rev. ed Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations Series Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9 Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9. Contents 1. INTRODUCTION -- General theme and aims of research -- Continuity and change in the archaeology of first millennium BC temperate Europe -- Recent trends in landscape and settlement archaeology -- A long-term perspective and its implications -- Geographical and chronological framework -- 2. ARCHAEOLOGY IN A SANDY 'ESSEN' LANDSCAPE -- Aspects of geology and geomorphology -- The premodern landscape and its implications for archaeological research -- A brief overview of investigations into the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region -- The period of heathland archaeology -- The period of 'essen' archaeology -- The Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region as a research area -- 3. THE HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS -- An anthropological perspective on houses and households -- Houses and the socio-cosmological order -- The house as a social category -- The temporality of domestic architecture -- The cultural biography of houses -- House, farmyard, farmstead -- Constructing house and household -- Building the house: an overview of house construction types -- Social considerations in the choice of farmstead location -- Ritualised aspects of house construction -- Inhabiting the house -- The use and ordering of space inside houses -- The farmyard -- Farmstead and household dynamics -- Depositional practices associated with the phase of habitation -- Abandoning the house -- Abandonment practices -- Farmstead abandonment and farmstead continuity in a diachronic perspective -- Houses and households: concluding remarks -- 4. LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE LANDSCAPE -- Settlement territories and local communities -- The symbolic construction of communities -- Community and landscape -- Approaches to territoriality and land tenure in archaeology -- Cemeteries and burial practices -- Burial practices from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Roman period -- Burial in cemeteries and alternative ways of treating the dead -- Urnfield cemeteries and older burial monuments -- Changing relationships between local communities and ancestors -- Enclosed and open cult places and other enclosures -- Rectangular enclosures with funerary connotations -- Enclosures without apparent funerary connotations -- Other types of cult places -- Cult places and cult communities -- Arable lands, celtic fields and agricultural systems -- Celtic fields in the Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region and the Northwest European Plain -- Arable lands, farmsteads and barrows -- Celtic field agricultural systems and the dynamic use of arable lands -- The development of a new agricultural regime in the later part of the Iron Age and the Roman period -- Local communities and arable lands -- Settlement nucleation -- Early examples of settlement nucleation -- Settlement enclosures -- The local community and its settlement in the Late Iron Age and the Early Roman period -- Local communities and settlement territories in time: discussion and synthesis -- The Middle Bronze Age -- The Urnfield period -- The Middle and early Late Iron Age -- The Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman period -- 5. MICRO-REGIONAL AND REGIONAL PATTERNS OF HABITATION, DEMOGRAPHY AND LAND USE -- Research questions -- Methodological issues -- The habitation histories of four micro-regions -- The Bladel-Hoogeloon region -- The Weert-Nederweert region -- The Someren region -- The Oss region -- The four micro-regions compared -- Regional settlement patterns and demographic trends -- The Middle Bronze Age -- The Urnfield period -- The Middle Iron Age and early Late Iron Age -- The Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman period -- Summary -- Changing settlement patterns and environmental degradation -- Population densities and soil degradation, an environmental model -- Changing agricultural regimes in the later part of the Iron Age -- 6. LANDSCAPE, IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC -- Flexible patterns of social identity and land tenure in a Middle Bronze Age barrow landscape -- The Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age transition and the genesis of urnfields -- Local communities, land and collective identity in the Urnfield period -- Changing habitation patterns and social fragmentation at the end of the Urnfield period -- New forms of social identity and land tenure in the Middle and early Late Iron Age -- Diversified social foundations in the Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman era -- The 'longue durée' and conjectural history -- Social relationships and land tenure in a changing world -- APPENDIX 1: MEUSE-DEMER-SCHELDT REGION. DISTRIBUTION OF URNFIELDS -- APPENDIX 2: CATALOGUE OF URNFIELDS Summary A study of the archaeologies of landscape and community in the Northwest European Plain Analysis Multi-User Notes This book is a slightly revised version of the doctoral dissertation the author completed in June 2001 and defended at the Faculty of Arts of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2001 doctoral Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2001 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Prehistoric peoples -- Europe Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Europe Human settlements -- Europe Humanities. Archaeology. Landscape archaeology. HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Antiquities Human settlements Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric Prehistoric peoples Nederzettingen. Prehistorie. Geschichte. Siedlung. SUBJECT Europe -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632 Subject Europe Maas-Demer-Schelde-Gebiet. Genre/Form dissertations. Academic theses Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book ISBN 0585498164 9780585498164 9789048505142 9048505143 1280958839 9781280958830 9786610958832 6610958831

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