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"Stone monuments and objects are highly accessible today and formed a focus for engagement, transformation and re-use in the past. Stone is inextricably linked to ideas of monumentality and remembrance. It formed an active medium in the creation of identities and memory in a range of social contexts and practices, including the embodied, performative and incorporated practices of daily activities and traditions. It can be argued that the material presence and physical character of stone objects and monuments were not only actively harnessed in these encounters, but were also the very stuff from which social relations were derived, perceived and thought through. This volume explores the power and effect of stone through the meanings that emerged out of people's engagement and encounters with its physical properties. Focused primarily on the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Atlantic Europe it brings together authors working on the materiality (materialitas) of stone via stone objects, rock art, monuments and quarrying activity. This highlights the connections that cross-cut what are traditionally seen as disparate research areas within the archaeological discipline."--Back cover.
| Title |
Materialitas : working stone, carving identity / edited by Blaze O'Connor, Gabriel Cooney and John Chapman. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Oxford Oakville : Oxbow Books |
| Creation Date |
[2009] |
| Notes |
"Published in association with the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland." Includes papers originally presented at a conference, Materialitas, held at University College Dublin in March, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures and Tables Contributors Abstract French Language Abstract German Language Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction: Materialitas and the significance of stone Part 1: Stone Quarries and Monuments 1. Dead Stone and Living Rock 2. Stones with Character: animism, agency and megalithic monuments 3. Preserved in Stone: material and ideology in the Neolithic 4. The World of the Grey Wethers 5. Megalithic Technology: a new approach to the earliest stone architecture of the west of France. Issues, methodology and results 6. Building the Great Stone Circles of Northern Britain: questions of materiality, identity and social practices7. Mundane Stone and its Meaning in the Neolithic 8. Carneddau: Stone Part 2: Worked and Carved Stones 9. Help, I'm a Rock! The Materiality of Stone in the Mesolithic of Britain and Ireland 10. Black is the Colour ... Chert, Concave Scrapers and Passage Tombs 11. Neolithic Fibrolite Working in the West of France 12. The Ideological Significance of Flint for Neolithic and Bronze Age Communities in the Rhine/Meuse Delta of the Netherlands 13. Speaking of Stone, Speaking through Stone: an exegesis of an engraved slate plaque from Late Neolithic Iberia14. Re-collected Objects: carved, worked and unworked stone in Bronze Age funerary monuments 15. Breaking Down and Cracking Up: rock art and the materiality of stone in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland 16. Signs on a Rock Veil: work on rocks, 'prehistoric art' and identity in north-west Iberia Afterword |
| Series |
Prehistoric Society research papers Number 3 |
| Extent |
1 online resource (526 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2009 |
| National Library system number |
997010714686805171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Megalithic monuments Europe Congresses.
- Sculpture, Prehistoric Europe Congresses.
- Stone implements Europe Congresses.
- Neolithic period Europe Congresses.
- Bronze age Europe Congresses.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric Europe Congresses.
- Prehistoric antiquities
- Prehistoric archaeology
- Prehistory
- New Stone age
- Flint implements
- Lithic implements
- Prehistoric sculpture
- nne Sculpture, Primitive
- Cyclopean remains
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