Prehistoric Materialities: Becoming Material in Prehistoric Britain and IrelandOUP Oxford, 5 ביולי 2012 - 230 עמודים Humans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing. Yet in the twentieth century archaeologists studying British prehistory have overlooked this fact in their search for past systems of order and pattern. Artefacts and monuments were treated as inert materials which were the outcomes of social ideas and processes. As a result materials were variously characterized as stable entities such as artefact categories, styles or symbols in an attempt to comprehend them. In this book Jones argues that, on the contrary, materials are vital, mutable, and creative, and archaeologists need to attend to the changing character of materials if they are to understand how past people and materials intersected to produce prehistoric societies. Rather than considering materials and societies as given, he argues that we need to understand how these entities are performed. Jones analyses the various aspects of materials, including their scale, colour, fragmentation, and assembly, in a wide-ranging discussion that covers the pottery, metalwork, rock art, passage tombs, barrows, causewayed enclosures, and settlements of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. |
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1 An Archaeological Order | 1 |
2 Archaeology in Flux | 16 |
3 Materials and Scale | 31 |
4 Materials Colour and Light | 72 |
5 Materials and Categories | 100 |
6 Materials and Assemblages | 126 |
7 Materials and Performances | 144 |
8 Presenting Three Artefacts | 171 |
9 Mutable Archaeologies | 188 |
References | 201 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action activity analysis animals appear approach archaeology architecture argue artefacts articulated assemblage associated axes barrow Beaker bone building burial carved causewayed enclosures central chapter character clay colour complex composed concerned connections consider construction contained context continuity created cultural dates decoration deposits discussion distinct ditch Drums Early Bronze Age emphasize evidence example excavated experience focus fragments grave hearth Hill hoard human important interaction involved Jones landscape Late Neolithic light located materials matter meaning miniature cups monuments motifs mound nature Neolithic notes objects observe offers original Orkney particularly passage tombs past performance period phases physical potential pots pottery practices produced reference region relationship repetition Richards ritual rock art scale Scotland sense settings settlement significance similar social society stone structure studies suggests surface things tion tradition vessels