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Title Burial mounds in Europe and Japan comparative and contextual perspectives / edited by Thomas Knopf, Werner Steinhaus, Shin'ya Fukunaga
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, [2018]
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Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology.
Contents Foreword; Burial Mounds in Europe and Japan: An Introduction -- by Werner Steinhaus and Thomas Knopf; Hallstatt Burial Mounds Then and Now: Excavations and Changing Images in the History of Research -- by Nils Müller-Scheeßel; Excavating the Mounded Tombs of the Kofun Period of the Japanese Archipelago: A History of Research and Methods -- by Tatsuo NAKAKUBO; Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Northern and Central Europe: Their Origins and the Development of Diversity in Time and Space -- by Frank Nikulka; Emergence and Development of Burial Mounds in the Yayoi Period -- by Hisashi NOJIMA; Princes, Chiefs or Big Men? Burial Mounds as Reflections of Social Structure in the Hallstatt Period -- by Wolfram Schier; Social Stratification and the Formation of Mounded Tombs in the Kofun Period of Protohistoric Japan -- by Ken'ichi SASAKI; Burial Mound/Landscape-Relations. Approaches Put forward by European Prehistoric Archaeology -- by Ariane Ballmer; Mounded Tomb Building during the Kofun Period: Location and Landscape -- by Akira SEIKE; Burial Mounds and Settlements. Their Relations in the Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène-Period (6th-4th century BC) -- by Ines Balzer; The Relationship between Mounded Tombs, Settlements, and Residences in the Kofun Period: Reflecting Social Changes? -- by Takehiko MATSUGI; Aspects of Early Iron in Central Europe -- by Manfred K. H. Eggert; Iron and its Relation to Mounded Tombs on the Japanese Islands -- by Hisashi NOJIMA; The Development of Metalworking and the Formation of Political Power in the Japanese Archipelago -- by Takehiko MATSUGI; Monuments for the Living and the Dead: Early Celtic Burial Mounds and Central Places of the Heuneburg Region -- by Dirk Krausse and Leif Hansen; Mounded Tombs of the Kofun Period: Monuments of Administration and Expressions of Power Relationships -- by Shin'ya FUKUNAGA; Burial Mounds in Broader Perspective. Visibility, Ritual and Power -- by Chris Scarre; An Introduction to the Yukinoyama Mounded Tomb -- by Naoya UEDA; The Significance of the Nonaka Mounded Tomb -- by Joseph Ryan
Summary This book brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa
Subject Mounds -- Europe.
Mounds -- Japan.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Japan.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Mounds
SUBJECT Europe -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
Japan -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069354
Subject Europe
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Knopf, Thomas, editor
Steinhaus, Werner, editor
Fukunaga, Shin'ya, 1959- editor.
ISBN 9781789690088
1789690080
Other Titles At head of title: Comparative and global perspectives on Japanese archaeology