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Author Horn, Christian

Title Places of Memory
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (165 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Christian Horn, Gustav Wollentz, Gianpiero Di Maida and Annette Haug -- Commemoration and Change: Remembering What May Not Have Happened -- Richard Bradley -- Figure 1. George Petrie's survey of the Hill of Tara drawing on the evidence of the dinnshenchas. Source: Petrie 1839 -- Figure 2. The Swallowhead Spring which was one of the principal sources of the Kennet -- Figure 3. The West Kennet Long Barrow
Figure 4. The site of the palisaded enclosures viewed from the West Kennet long barrow. The monuments were on the low ground in the centre of the picture -- Figure 5. Silbury Hill seen from the West Kennet long barrow. The Roman small town was on the low ground in front of the mound and on the right hand side of the monument -- The Multiple Pasts of Archaic Greece: The Landscapes of Crete and the Argolid, 900-500 BCE -- James Whitley
Figure 1. View over Cairnholy 2, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Photo taken from Human development in landscapes: graduate school at Kiel University http://www.gshdl.uni-kiel.de (Courtesy and copyright, Graduate School, Human Development in Landscape, K -- Figure 2. View from the Argive Heraion looking over the Argive plain towards Argos itself (photo author) -- Figure 3. Detail of pseudo-Cyclopean masonry, upper temple terrace, Argive Heraion (photo author)
Figure 7. Map of Crete, showing location of sites mentioned (prepared by Kirsty Harding) -- Aeneas, Romulus, and the Memory Site of the Forum Augustum in Rome -- Matthias J. Bensch -- The Spoils of Eternity: Spolia as Collective Memory in the Basilica of St. Peter during the 4th century AD -- Christina Videbech -- Figure 1. Plan by Alfarano of Old St Peters, 1590. Spolia marked with orange by the author. -- Figure 2. Part of Tabula Peutingeriana. Cut made by the author. -- Were TRB Depositions Boundary Markers in the Neolithic Landscape? -- Michael Müller
Summary This book examines spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today; it presents a reflection on the creation of memories through the organisation and use of landscapes and spaces that explicitly considers the multiplicity of meanings of the past
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Fig 1. Hoard with thin-butted flint axe blades from Djupbrunns (region Gotland, Sweden) Michael Müller
Subject Archaeology and history.
historical archaeology.
Archaeology and history
Form Electronic book
Author Wollentz, Gustav
Di Maida, Gianpiero
Haug, Annette
ISBN 9781789696141
1789696143