{"product_id":"beyond-barrows-current-research-on-the-structuration-and-perception-of-the-prehistoric-landscape-through-monuments-9789088901089","title":"Beyond Barrows: Current research on the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEurope is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age\/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of “ritual landscapes”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University of Leiden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Barrows – an introduction\u003cbr\u003eBy David Fontijn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Inventions of Memory and Meaning – Examples of Late Iron Age Reuse of Bronze Age Monuments in South-Western Sweden-\u003cbr\u003eBy Tore Artelius†\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I (Beyond monumentality)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemorious Monuments. Place persistency, mortuary practice and memory in the Lower Rhine Area wetlands (5500-2500 cal BC)\u003cbr\u003eBy Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe centrality of urnfields. Second thoughts on structure and stability of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cultural landscapes in the Low Countries.\u003cbr\u003eBy Roy van Beek and Arjan Louwen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II Orderings of funerary landscapes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDöserygg and Skegrie. Megalithic centres in south-west Scania, southern Sweden\u003cbr\u003eBy Magnus Andersson and Björn Wallebom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost alignments in the barrow cemeteries of Oss-Vorstengraf and Oss-Zevenbergen\u003cbr\u003eBy Harry Fokkens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III Zooming out: barrows in a landscape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBronze Age barrow research in Sandy Flanders (NW Belgium): an overview\u003cbr\u003eBy Jeroen De Reu and Jean Bourgeois\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehistory of open space. Barrow landscapes and the significance of heaths – the case of the Echoput barrows\u003cbr\u003eBy Marieke Doorenbosch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWays of Wandering – In the Late Bronze Age Barrow Landscape of the Himmerland-area, Denmark\u003cbr\u003eBy Mette Løvschal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV monument-building – an evolutionary approach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bet-Hedging Model as an Explanatory Framework for the Evolution of Mound Building in the Southeastern United States\u003cbr\u003eBy Evan Peacock and Janet Rafferty","brand":"Sidestone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047071777111,"sku":"9789088901089","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789088901089.jpg?v=1750970157","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-barrows-current-research-on-the-structuration-and-perception-of-the-prehistoric-landscape-through-monuments-9789088901089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}