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dc.contributor.editorFontijn, David
dc.contributor.editorLouwen, Arjan
dc.contributor.editorvan der Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja
dc.contributor.editorWentink, Karsten
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-16T08:59:42Z
dc.date.available2020-06-16T08:59:42Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39593
dc.description.abstractEurope 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. The 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”. The 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.otherbarrowsen_US
dc.subject.otherprehistoryen_US
dc.subject.otherEuropeen_US
dc.titleBeyond barrowsen_US
dc.title.alternativeCurrent research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monumentsen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy471fd6d5-f295-4fd0-a13a-e60a6420f603en_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByda087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025en_US
oapen.collectionDutch Research Council (NWO)
oapen.pages284en_US
oapen.remark.public21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9789088901089


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