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Informationen zum Autor Marta Díaz-Guardamino is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the later prehistory of Western Europe, particularly on archaeological art, megalithic monuments, and landscapes. Her research interests include the application of social theory and digital imaging technologies to archaeological enquiry.Leonardo García Sanjuán is a Senior Lecturer in Prehistory at the University of Seville, and has previously occupied academic positions at the universities of Southampton and Bradford. His main field of interest is social complexity in the late prehistory of Iberia, with a special focus on funerary practices and monumental architecture.David Wheatley is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton whose research interests include the later prehistory of Western Europe, GIS-based approaches to the analysis of archaeological sites and landscapes, and digital imaging. More recently, his research has centred on the social prehistory of southern Iberia. Klappentext This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ideological and political significance. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ideological and political significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Part I: Introduction 1: Marta Díaz-Guardamino, Leonardo García Sanjuán, and David Wheatley: The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Europe: An Introduction 2: Joyce E. Salisbury: Before the Standing Stones: From Land Forms to Religious Attitudes and Monumentality Part II: Case Studies 3: Steen Hvass: Kings' Jelling: Monuments with Outstanding Biographies in the Heart of Denmark 4: Gabriel Cooney: Icons of Antiquity: Remaking Megalithic Monuments in Ireland 5: Howard Williams: Beowulf and Archaeology: Megaliths Imagined and Encountered in Early Medieval Europe 6: David Wheatley: Myth, Memento and Memory: Avebury (Wiltshire, England) 7: Heather Sebire: Les Pierres de Memoire: The Life History of two Statue-Menhirs from Guernsey, Channel Islands 8: Luc Laporte, Marie-Yvane Daire, Gwenolé Kerdivel and Elías López-Romero: Back and Forward: Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany 9: Mara Vejby: Enduring Past: Megalithic Tombs of Brittany and the Roman Occupation in Western France 10: Leonardo García Sanjuán and Marta Díaz-Guardamino: The Outstanding Biographies of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Spain 11: Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina: Megaliths and Holy Places in the Genesis of the Kingdom of Asturias (North of Spain, AD 718-910) 12: Francesco Fedele: Life and Death of Copper Age Monoliths at Ossimo Anvòia (Val Camonica, Italian Central Alps), 3000 BC-AD 1950 13: Staša Babi¿: Biography of a Hill - Novi Pazar in South Western Serbia 14: Borja Legarra Herrero: What Happens When Tombs Die? The Historical Appropriation of the Cretan Bronze Age Cemeteries 15: 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, and Moncef Ben Moussa: Roman Dolmens? The Megalithic Necropolises of Eastern Maghreb Revisited Part III: Recapitulation and Conclusions 16: Estella Weiss-Krejci: The Plot against the Past: Reuse and Modification of Ancient Mortuary Monuments as Persuasive Efforts of Appropriation 17: Richard Bradley: Piercing together a Past Index ...
