Material, Virtual and Temporal Compositions: On the Relationships between Objects Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fifth Annual Meeting in Bournemouth 1999 (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International, 953)

Castro, Maria Cruz Fernandez; Cunliffe, Barry W.

ISBN 10: 1841712442 / ISBN 13: 9781841712444

Published by Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, 2001

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iv, 95 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. This volume presents ten papers given during a session of the European Association of Archaeologists in Bournemouth in 1999. The theme of the session was relationships between objects, the aim of which was to discuss relationships existing between objects in the process of creating meaning in the archaeological record. The papers range from Mesolithic portable art in Scandinavia to food as ritual objects in ancient Italy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Material, Virtual and Temporal Compositions: On the Relationships between Objects Papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fifth Annual Meeting in Bournemouth 1999 (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International, 953)
• Publisher: Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841712442
• ISBN 13: 9781841712444
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology

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Synopsis

Ten papers, plus an introduction, from a session at the European Association of Archaeologists Fifth Annual Meeting in Bournemouth in 1999. Contents: Les objets et le sens (Marcel Otte) ; Things moving around a landscape: The symbolism of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art (George Nash) ; Fertility rituals: The Kangjiashimenzi petroglyphs and the Cucuteni dancers (Jeannine Davis-Kimball) ; Beer and beakers: A tentative analysis (Marc M Vander Linden) ; Stone axes as tools, valuable and symbols (3300-1900BC) (Jan Turek) ; Houses, bodies, pots, quernstones: Meaning and metaphor in the English Later Bronze Age (Joanna Brueck) ; Food as a ritual object in ancient Italy (Marina Ciaraldi) ; Late Viking period pagan burial in Gotland: The symbolic code (Martin Rundkvist) ; Scandinavian warrior on the Volga river: Version of reconstruction of destiny

About the Author

Dragoş Gheorghiu is a cultural anthropologist and an experimental archaeologist, currently teaching at the Doctoral School of the National University of Arts in Bucharest. His approach to the European Chalcolithic uses semiotics and rhetoric to interpret the material culture and the landscapes of the past. Another main research area is the rituality of prehistoric technologies and places.