| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Part Introduction -- The lives of prehistoric monuments in Europe : an introduction / Marta Díaz-Guardamino, Leonardo García Sanjuán, David Wheatley -- Before the standing stones : from land forms to religious attitudes and monumentality / Joyce E. Salisbury -- Part II: Case Studies -- Kings' Jelling : monuments with outstanding biographies in the heart of Denmark / Steen Hvass -- Icons of antiquity : remaking megalithic monuments in Ireland / Gabriel Cooney -- Beowulf and archaeology : megaliths imagined and encountered in Early Medieval Europe / Howard Williams -- Myth, memento and memory : avebury (wiltshire, england) / David Wheatley -- Les pierres de memoire : the life history of two statue-menhirs from Guernsey, Channel Islands / Heather Sebire -- Back and forward : neolithic standing stones and Iron Age stelae in French Brittany / Luc Laporte, Marie-Yvane Daire, Gwenolé Kerdivel, Elías López-Romero -- Enduring past : megalithic tombs of Brittany and the Roman occupation in Western France / Mara Vej-- The outstanding biographies of prehistoric monuments in Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Spain / Leonardo García Sanjuán, Marta Díaz-Guardamino -- Megaliths and holy places in the genesis of the Kingdom of Asturias (North of Spain, ad 718-910) / Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina -- Life and death of Copper Age monoliths at Ossimo Anvòia (Val Camonica, Italian Central Alps), 3000 bc-ad 1950 / Francesco Fedele -- Biography of a hill : Novi Pazar in South Western Serbia / Stas̆a Babić -- What happens when tombs die? : the historical appropriation of the Cretan Bronze Age cemeteries / Borja Legarra Herrero -- Roman Dolmens? : the megalithic necropolises of Eastern Maghreb revisited / Joan Sanmartí, Nabil Kallala, Rafel Jornet, M. Carme Belarte, Joan Canela, Sarhane Chérif, Jordi Campillo, David Montanero, Xavier Bermúdez, Thaïs Fadrique, Víctor Revilla, Joan Ramon, Moncef Ben Moussa -- Part III: Recapitulation and Conclusions -- The plot against the past : reuse and modification of ancient mortuary monuments as persuasive efforts of appropriation / Estella Weiss-Krejci -- Piercing together a past / Richard Bradley |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection examine the life-histories of carefully chosen megalithic monuments, stelae and statue-menhirs and rock art sites of various European and Mediterranean regions during the Iron Age, Roman and medieval times. By focusing on the concrete interaction between people, monuments and places, they offer an innovative outlook on a variety of debated issues, inlcuding the role of ancient remains in the creation, institutionalisation, contestation and negotiation of social identities and memories, and their relationship with political economy in early European societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Megalithic monuments -- Europe.
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Dolmens -- Europe
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passage graves.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Dolmens
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Megalithic monuments
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Prehistorie.
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Receptie.
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Monumenten.
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Congressen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Díaz-Guardamino, Marta, editor.
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García Sanjuán, Leonardo, editor.
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Wheatley, David, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191036866 |
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0191036862 |
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9780191916823 |
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019191682X |
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