Local Identities: Landscape and Community in the Late Prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt Region (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies) (Volume 9)

Gerritsen, Fokke

ISBN 10: 9053565884 / ISBN 13: 9789053565889

Published by Amsterdam University Press, 2003

About this Item

Volume 9. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:9053565884.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Local Identities: Landscape and Community in the Late Prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt Region (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies) (Volume 9)
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9053565884
• ISBN 13: 9789053565889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 1650 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology

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Synopsis

Investigates how small groups - households and local communities - constitute and represent their social identity by ordering the landscape in which they dwell. The author develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective that deals with many of the practices that create collective senses of identity and belonging. These include house building and habitation, structured deposition, cremation and burial, arable farming, and ritual practices. An explicitly diachronic approach charts processes of cultural and social change which have previously gone largely unnoticed, providing a stimulating basis for a more dynamic history of the late prehistoric inhabitants of the Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region.Amsterdam Archaeological Studies is a series devoted to the study of past human societies from the prehistory up into modern times, primarily based on the study of archaeological remains. The series will include excavation reports of modern fieldwork; studies of categories of material culture; and synthesising studies with broader images of past societies, thereby contributing to the theoretical and methodological debates in archaeology.

About the Author

Fokke Gerritsen is a researcher in the Department of Archaeology at the Free University of Amsterdam, focusing in his work on later prehistoric settlement and landscape archaeology. He conducts research projects in southern Netherlands and southern Turkey, and is the co-editor of the journal Archaeological Dialogues.