PREHISTORIC AESTHETICS C

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-955642-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Humans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing. Yet in the twentieth century archaeologists studying British prehistory have overlooked this fact in their search for past systems of order and pattern. Artefacts and monuments were treated as inert materials which were the outcomes of social ideas and processes. As a result materials were variously characterized as stable entities such as artefact categories, styles or symbols in an attempt to
comprehend them. In this book Jones argues that, on the contrary, materials are vital, mutable, and creative, and archaeologists need to attend to the changing character of materials if they are to understand how past people and materials intersected to produce prehistoric societies. Rather than considering
materials and societies as given, he argues that we need to understand how these entities are performed.

Jones analyses the various aspects of materials, including their scale, colour, fragmentation, and assembly, in a wide-ranging discussion that covers the pottery, metalwork, rock art, passage tombs, barrows, causewayed enclosures, and settlements of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland.

Zielgruppe

For students and academics interested in archaeology, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age history, and material culture studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones

Jones, Andrew Meirion

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1: An Archaeological Order
2: Archaeology in Flux
3: Materials and Scale
4: Materials, Colour and Light
5: Materials and Categories
6: Materials and Assemblages
7: Materials and Performances
8: Presenting Three Artefacts
9: Mutable Archaeologies
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jones, Andrew Meirion
Andrew Jones is a Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice (2002), Memory and Material Culture (2007), editor of Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice (2008), and co-editor ,with G. Macgregor, of Colouring the Past (2002).