Description
Dragos Gheorghiu, George Nash: The Archaeology of People and Territoriality / Archaeolingua 2009
Budapest, Archaeolingua, 2009
Keménykötés | Hardback
340 oldal, színes és fekete-fehér illusztrációkkal | 340 pages with colored and grayscale images
ISBN: 9639911062 / ISBN-13: 9789639911062 / 978-9639911062
Table of Contents
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.
Description:
Place and territoriality have become key archaeological concepts over the last decade or so, and in this volume sixteen essays explore the ways in which place is created and how it reflects and shapes ancient societies. Case studies are mostly prehistoric with a global scope, including the phenomenology of rock art in New South Wales, the use of fire as a ritual marker of place in prehistoric Europe and Papua New Guinea, the design of irrigation systems in Chile, sacred space and heritage in Wisconsin, the transmission of symbols from late Mesolithic material culture to the Neolithic LBK, the siting of holy wells in medieval England, the organisation of space in late Bronze Age and Iron Age Slovenia, the siting of cursus sites, as well as more theoretical papers, which seek to define terminology and are in some cases critical of the way that place and territoriality have previously been used.
