The Emergent Past

Informationen zum Autor Chris Fowler is a Lecturer in Later Prehistoric Archaeology in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Newcastle University. He specializes in British Neolithic and Early Bronze Age archaeology. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Fowler presents a detailed study of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices based on a reading of recent relational theories in archaeology and other disciplines. It provides the first ever synthesis of Early Bronze Age burials in Northeast England, examining a dataset of over 350 burials across 150 different archaeological sites. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1: Introduction 2: Relational realism and the nature of archaeological evidence 3: Theories as actants: translating mortuary practice 4: Packing and unpacking black boxes: pattern and diversity in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices from Northeast England 5: Changing places, changing communities 6: Themes emerging from Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in Northeast England 7: The emergent past circulation, articulation, and entanglement Appendix A Key details of sites in the dataset Appendix B Key details of mortuary deposits in the dataset Bibliography Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chris Fowler
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199656370
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965637-0
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 242 mm x 24 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Europe, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, North & North East England, Material Culture, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, North and North East England, Archaeological science, methodology & techniques, Archaeological science, methodology and techniques