Next >

The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe

The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe WORDS, NATURE, AND MONUMENTS MONUMENTS, POLITICS, AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS COROLLARY: TOWARDS SUITABLE CONCEPTS?REFERENCES Before the Standing Stones. From Land Forms to Religious Attitudes and Monumentality THE STUDY OF PERSISTENT BELIEFS EARLY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS SACRED MOUNTAINS SACRED CAVES AND SUPERNATURAL WATERS CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES II Case-Studies Kings’ Jelling. Monuments with Outstanding Biographies in the Heart of Denmark INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH HISTORY OF THE SITE THE ‘PAGAN’ MONUMENT (MID TENTH CENTURY ad)THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MONUMENT (LATE TENTH CENTURY ad)THE SECOND CHRISTIAN MONUMENT (LATE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES ad)JELLING IN MODERN HISTORY (SIXTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES ad)CONCLUSION REFERENCES Icons of Antiquity. Remaking Megalithic Monuments in Ireland INTRODUCTION: THE ENDURANCE OF MEGALITHS TARA, NEWGRANGE, AND KNOWTH: A HISTORIC SUMMARY TARA: BUILDING A LINEAGE FROM THE PAST KNOWTH: REVITALIZING THE PAST NEWGRANGE: ANOTHER WORLD DIFFERENT MONUMENTS, DIFFERENT LIVES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES Beowulf and Archaeology. Megaliths Imagined and Encountered in Early Medieval Europe THE DRAGON’S MOUND IN BEOWULF A BIOGRAPHY FOR THE DRAGON’S MOUND THE MOUND’S ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALITY THE TREASURE’S MATERIALITY THE DRAGON’S MATERIALITY CONCLUSION REFERENCES Myth, Memento, and Memory. Avebury (Wiltshire, England)BIOGRAPHY, MEMORY, AND MEMENTO PREHISTORIC MEMENTOS ROMAN AND SAXON ENCOUNTERS BURIAL OF STONES IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD THE (EARLY MODERN) HEAT IS ON THE MYTH OF THE ‘REAL’ AVEBURY LIVES, AFTERLIVES, MEMENTOS, AND MEMORIES REFERENCES Les Pierres de Memoire. The Life History of Two Statue-Menhirs from Guernsey, Channel Islands THE CHANNEL ISLANDS THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT EARLY LIFE: DATING OF THE STATUE-MENHIRS Other anthropomorphic stones in Guernsey TWO EXCEPTIONAL STATUE-MENHIRS: HISTORICAL DISCOVERY Le Catel menhir La Gran’mere du Chim’quiere THE LIVES OF THE GUERNSEY STATUE-MENHIRS IN THE ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS AND BEYOND Le Catel Menhir La Gran’mere du Chim’quiere The statue-menhirs in the modern day CONCLUSIONS: THE ONGOING LIFE HISTORIES OF THE MENHIRS Anthropomorphic form The Roman period The Medieval period ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES Back and Forward. Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany REUSE OF MEGALITHS AND STANDING STONES IN WESTERN FRANCE NEOLITHIC ‘MENHIRS’ IN BRITTANY IRON AGE ‘STELAE’ IN BRITTANY BACK AND FORTH CONCLUSION REFERENCES Enduring Past. Megalithic Tombs of Brittany and the Roman Occupation in Western France THE REUSE OF MEGALITHIC TOMBS IN ROMAN BRITTANY: AN INTRODUCTION MEGALITHIC TOMBS AND VENUS STATUETTES ALONG THE GULF OF MORBIHAN DISCUSSING THE EVIDENCE AND PIECING TOGETHER THE PAST REFERENCES The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain MEGALITHIC FUNERARY MONUMENTS STELAE, STATUE-MENHIRS, AND ROCK ART CONCLUSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES Megaliths and Holy Places in the Genesis of the Kingdom of Asturias (North of Spain, ad 718-910)THE SANTA CRUZ DOLMEN PREHISTORIC MONUMENTS AND ‘SIGNIFICANT PLACES’ IN THE RISE OF THE ASTURIAN MONARCHY DISCUSSING CONTINUITIES BETWEEN THE NEOLITHIC AND THE MIDDLE AGES A FINAL REMARK: THE CONTINUITY OF THE MEGALITHIC SITES AS PARISH ENTITIES REFERENCES Life and Death of Copper Age Monoliths at Ossimo Anvoia (Val Camonica, Italian Central Alps), 3000 bc-ad 1950 CONTEXT AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE DISCUSSION: THE ‘HISTORICAL’ PERIOD Fourth century ad Modern period REFERENCES Biography of a Hill. Novi Pazar in South-Western Serbia THE EMERGING STATE THE ‘ILLYRIAN-GREEK TREASURE’OVERLAPPINGS DEMARCATIONS TRANSFORMATIONS IN SPACE AND TIME REFERENCES What Happens When Tombs Die? The Historical Appropriation of the Cretan Bronze Age Cemeteries THE ALWAYS PRESENT BRONZE AGE LANDSCAPE THE RICHNESS OF RESPONSES: BRONZE AGE TOMBS ON CRETE WHAT ROLE FOR THE PAST: HELLENIC DEVOTEES OR ROMAN ROBBERS?THE BRONZE AGE TOMBS OF CRETE: AXIS OF INTERPRETATION CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES Roman Dolmens? The Megalithic Necropolises of Eastern Maghreb Revisited STATE OF THE ART THE NATIONAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE (INSTITUT NATIONAL DU PATRIMOINE, INP)/UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (UB) ‘ALTHIBUROS PROJECT’THE MEGALITHIC NECROPOLIS OF EL KSOUR DISCUSSION REFERENCES The Plot Against the Past. Reuse and Modification of Ancient Mortuary Monuments as Persuasive Efforts of Appropriation DISCONTINUOUS REUSE OF MONUMENTS AS ACTS OF APPROPRIATION STRATEGIES OF APPROPRIATION AND THE USE OF MORTUARY MONUMENTS: LESSONS FROM HISTORY Evocation of appropriated ancestors in the House of Habsburg Evocation of the past at Gamla Uppsala (Sweden)CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES Piecing Together a Past INTRODUCTION: ONE PAST OR MANY PASTS?COMMEMORATING THE FUTURE IMPROVISATION AND THE LIMITS OF MEMORY: THE RELEVANCE OF ORAL LITERATURE MONUMENTS, MEMENTOS, AND MEMORIALS PROCESSES, EVENTS, AND INTERPRETATIONS ESTABLISHING LEGITIMACY COEXISTENCE AND CONFRONTATION ASSUMPTIONS AND ERRORS THE PERSISTENCE OF THE HUMAN FORM SCOTTISH STONE CIRCLES—A SUCCESSION OF DIFFERENT PASTS The past in 2000 bc The past in 1500-800 bc The past in ad 100 The past in ad 600 CONCLUSION—PIECES OF A PAST REFERENCES

Next >

The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe
An Introduction Marta Diaz-Guardamino, Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan, and David Wheatley On 19 June 2014, while the final lines of this book were still being written, Felipe VI was proclaimed King of Spain, giving continuity into the twenty-first century to the Bourbon dynasty, which almost uninterruptedly...
(The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe)
The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Spain
Leonardo Garcia Sanjuan and Marta Diaz-Guardamino INTRODUCTION Over the last decade, new questions have emerged with regard to the complex temporal patterns often seen in Iberian prehistoric monuments. A number of megalithic chamber tombs, menhirs, stelae or rock-art panels have been found to show that,...
(The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe)
THE LIVES OF THE GUERNSEY STATUE-MENHIRS IN THE ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL PERIODS AND BEYOND
We can piece together the life histories of the two Guernsey statue- menhirs since their original erection and surmise whether their later history and indeed survival is related to their human form, including facial representation. They both play an important role in modern-day island life and so, despite...
(The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe)
Back and Forward. Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany
Luc Laporte, Marie-Yvane Daire, Gwenole Kerdivel, and EUas Lopez-Romero The history of each place is always unique, and this also applies to each monument. Even the title of this book fits in with a pattern of thought developed by R. Bradley (2010). This approach treats the way in which certain prehistoric...
(The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe)
IRON AGE ‘STELAE’ IN BRITTANY
In the same way as for the inventory of megaliths, the database on Iron Age stelae (Daire et al. forthcoming) is built on the revised and completed ‘Patriarche’ database of the Ministry for Culture and on publications concerning regional inventories (Daire and Giot 1989; Tanguy 1997; Le Brozec and...
(The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe)
PREHISTORIC MONUMENTS AND ‘SIGNIFICANT PLACES’ IN THE RISE OF THE ASTURIAN MONARCHY
The Arab invasion in ad 711 meant the breaking down of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. Just some years later, around 718, 722 or 733, King Pelayo defeated the Muslims in Covadonga, near Cangas de Onis (Figure 11.4). Maybe this battle was just another skirmish, but the special historiographic attention...
(The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe)
Cuneiform (Kizzuwatna) Luwian and Hieroglyphic (Empire and Iron Age) Luwian
The two varieties of Luwian are differentiated by several distinctive features (cf. Melchert 2003b: 171-175 for the following list). Cuneiform Luwian has replaced completely the inherited genitival forms *-os, *-oso, and *-osyo with a relational adjective in -assa/ i- (for a different...
(Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics)
New finds on the Sami Iron Age - 2,500 years ago
The skill of iron production is another theme of interest in this regard. Did Sami in the northern territories already know how to produce iron and steel 2,000 years ago? Was there a Sami Iron Age? Ojala (2009) states that the concept of a Sami Iron Age was suggested by Norwegian archaeologists in the...
(Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies)
Parker Pearson - inequality in Iron Age Jutland
The next case study is drawn from the work of Mike Parker Pearson in two volumes: Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology (Spriggs, 1984) and Ideology, Power and Prehistory (Miller and Tilley, 1984d). Both volumes are part of a series that emerged in the 1980s directly critiquing the new archaeology...
(Change and Archaeology)
Bronze Age elites at the dawn of the Iron Age
The late Urnfield culture (Ha B3) The late Urnfield culture or Ha2 B3 describes an aggregation of regional groups that share certain traits of material culture and customs, i.e. cremation burial in urns, and are often defined by a unique range of local pottery. While subject to variation depending...
(Archaeological Networks and Social Interaction)