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1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Inventions of Memory and Meaning. Examples of Late Iron Age Reuse of Bronze Age Monuments in South-Western Sweden / Tore Artelius -- pt. I Beyond monumentality -- Memorious Monuments. Place persistency, mortuary practice and memory in the Lower Rhine Area wetlands (5500 -- 2500 cal BC) / Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz -- The centrality of urnfields. Second thoughts on structure and stability of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cultural landscapes in the Low Countries / Arjan Louwen -- pt. II Orderings of funerary locations -- Doserygg and Skegrie. Megalithic centres in south-west Scania, southern Sweden / Bjorn Wallebom -- Post alignments in the barrow cemeteries of Oss-Vorstengraf and Oss-Zevenbergen / Harry Fokkens -- Bronze Age barrow research in Sandy Flanders (NW Belgium): an overview / Jean Bourgeois -- pt. III Zooming out: barrows in a landscape -- A history of open space. Barrow landscapes and the significance of heaths -- the case of the Echoput barrows / Marieke Doorenbosch -- Ways of Wandering. In the Late Bronze Age Barrow Landscape of the Himmerland-area, Denmark / Mette Løvschal -- pt. IV Monument buildingan evolutionary approach |
| Summary |
Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session. The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Landforms.
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Antiquities.
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Archaeology.
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Archaeology
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archaeology.
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landforms (terrestrial)
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Landforms
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fontijn, David R.
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Louwen, A. (Arjan)
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| ISBN |
9789088901683 |
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9088901686 |
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1299559093 |
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9781299559097 |
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