In Praise of Small Things Death and Life at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Burial of Bolores, Portugal (BAR International)

Lillios, Katina T.; Mack, Jennifer; Waterman, Anna J.; Artz, Joe Alan; Nilsson-Stutz, Liv

ISBN 10: 140731369X / ISBN 13: 9781407313696

Published by British Archaeological Reports, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Praise of Small Things Death and Life at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Burial of Bolores, Portugal (BAR International)
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140731369X
• ISBN 13: 9781407313696
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume presents the results of archaeological research conducted at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age burial site of Bolores between 2007 and 2012, which built on work carried out in 1986. Bolores is a small site (5 x 3 m), yet the analysis of its structure and associated materials have yielded a rich and nuanced picture of a small population of people who lived, and died, in the third and second millennia BC in the Portuguese Estremadura. Although our research focused on the small-scale, it also attempted to bridge this perspective with the larger social and cultural dynamics at play during the time. It advocates, in its own way, for greater attention to the micro-scale: small sites, small objects, bone fragments, and details in ritual practice. In a time when Big Data, Big History, and global phenomena loom large in public and scholarly imagination, we think it is also important to understand the variegated texture of local, small-scale social practices, which, after all, are linked to broader sociocultural phenomena and hold the key to understanding resistance and social change.

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Katina T. Lillios, Anna J. Waterman, Jennifer Mack, Joe Alan Artz and Liv Nilsson-Stutz