Beyond Barrows

David Fontijn

ISBN 10: 9088901082 / ISBN 13: 9789088901089

Edité par Sidestone Press Mär 2013, 2013

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Neuware - 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. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of 'ritual landscapes'. The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory.Contents:Beyond Barrows - an introductionBy David FontijnInventions of Memory and Meaning - Examples of Late Iron Age Reuse of Bronze Age Monuments in South-Western SwedenBy Tore Artelius Part I (Beyond monumentality)Memorious Monuments. Place persistency, mortuary practice and memory in the Lower Rhine Area wetlands (5500-2500 cal BC)By Luc W.S.W. AmkreutzThe centrality of urnfields. Second thoughts on structure and stability of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cultural landscapes in the Low Countries.By Roy van Beek and Arjan LouwenPart II (Orderings of funerary landscapes)Döserygg and Skegrie. Megalithic centres in south-west Scania, southern SwedenBy Magnus Andersson and Björn WallebomPost alignments in the barrow cemeteries of Oss-Vorstengraf and Oss-ZevenbergenBy Harry FokkensPart III (Zooming out: barrows in a landscape)Bronze Age barrow research in Sandy Flanders (NW Belgium): an overviewBy Jeroen De Reu and Jean Bourgeoishistory of open space. Barrow landscapes and the significance of heaths - the case of the Echoput barrowsBy Marieke DoorenboschWays of Wandering - In the Late Bronze Age Barrow Landscape of the Himmerland-area, DenmarkBy Mette LøvschalPart IV monument-building - an evolutionary approachThe Bet-Hedging Model as an Explanatory Framework for the Evolution of Mound Building in the Southeastern United StatesBy Evan Peacock and Janet Rafferty.

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• Titre: Beyond Barrows
• Éditeur: Sidestone Press Mär 2013
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9088901082
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789088901089
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 257 L x 182 H x 18 P (en millimètres) 257 millimètres de largeur par 182 millimètres de hauteur par 18 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 616 grammes

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Synopsis

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. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of "ritual landscapes".

The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory.

This book is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project.

Nederlandse beschrijving:
Verspreid door Europa liggen tienduizenden prehistorische grafheuvels. Ondanks hun alomtegenwoordigheid is er weinig bekend over de rol die zij speelden in de pre- en protohistorische landschappen. In 2010 kwam daarom een groep internationale archeologen bij elkaar tijdens een sessie op het EAA congres in Den Haag. Dit boek is een resultaat van die sessie.

Dit boek focust vooral op de prehistorie van Scandinavië en de Lage Landen, maar bevat ook een bijdrage over grote prehistorische heuvels in het zuidwesten van de verenigde Staten. In één van de bijdrages wordt nieuw bewijs gepresenteerd van een indrukwekkende ordening van het landschap ten tijde van de hunebedbouwers (Trechterbekercultuur) in Denemarken. Een andere bijdrage behandelt vergelijkbare resultaten van lange palenrijen rondom grafheuvels uit de Brons- en IJzertijd in Nederland. Enkele artikelen behandelen de rol van grafheuvels in het wijdere landschap, het belang van door mensen beheerde heidevelden en de ruimtelijke ordening van grafheuvels in het landschap. Andere auteurs gaan in op het belang van "persistent places" zowel in het vroege Neolithicum als de Late Bronstijd en beargumenteren dat we niet alleen naar het monumentale karakter van sites moeten kijken maar moeten proberen te begrijpen hoe deze op de lange termijn deel uit maken van "rituele landschappen".

Het boek bevat ook een bijdrage van de bekende Zweedse archeoloog Tore Artelius over het hergebruik van Bronstijd grafheuvels door de Vikingen. Dit is het laatste artikel dat hij schreef voor zijn dood. Het boek is aan hem opgedragen.

À propos de l?auteur

David Fontijn is professor in the Archaeology of Early Europe at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His research deals with the early agrarian societies of Europe from prehistory up until the early historical period, with special attention to the Bronze Age and (early) Iron Age, the exchange and deposition of metalwork and on the archaeology of so-called "ritual" landscapes. He is currently leading the NWO-VICI project "Economies of Destruction" investigating the puzzling destruction of valuable objects in Bronze Age Europe (2015-).