| Material, Virtual and Temporal Compositions: On the Relationships between Objects Contributor(s): Gheorghiu, Dragos (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1841712442 ISBN-13: 9781841712444 Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd OUR PRICE: $45.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 930.1 |
| LCCN: 2001430082 |
| Series: British Archaeological Reports |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (0.78 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ten papers, plus an introduction, from a session at the European Association of Archaeologists Fifth Annual Meeting in Bournemouth in 1999. Contents: Les objets et le sens (Marcel Otte); Things moving around a landscape: The symbolism of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art (George Nash); Fertility rituals: The Kangjiashimenzi petroglyphs and the Cucuteni dancers (Jeannine Davis-Kimball); Beer and beakers: A tentative analysis (Marc M Vander Linden); Stone axes as tools, valuable and symbols (3300-1900BC) (Jan Turek); Houses, bodies, pots, quernstones: Meaning and metaphor in the English Later Bronze Age (Joanna Brueck); Food as a ritual object in ancient Italy (Marina Ciaraldi); Late Viking period pagan burial in Gotland: The symbolic code (Martin Rundkvist); Scandinavian warrior on the Volga river: Version of reconstruction of destiny |
Contributor Bio(s): Gheorghiu, Dragos: - 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. |