Local identities: landscape and community in the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region
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1. Verfasser: Gerritsen, Fokke Albert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press c2003
Ausgabe:Rev. ed
Schriftenreihe:Amsterdam archaeological studies 9
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Beschreibung:This book is a slightly revised version of the doctoral dissertation the author completed in June 2001 and defended at the Faculty of Arts of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2001. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index
1 - INTRODUCTION -- - General theme and aims of research -- - Continuity and change in the archaeology of first millennium BC temperate Europe -- - Recent trends in landscape and settlement archaeology -- - A long-term perspective and its implications -- - Geographical and chronological framework -- - 2 - ARCHAEOLOGY IN A SANDY 'ESSEN' LANDSCAPE -- - Aspects of geology and geomorphology -- - The premodern landscape and its implications for archaeological research -- - A brief overview of investigations into the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region -- - The period of heathland archaeology -- - The period of 'essen' archaeology -- - The Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region as a research area -- - 3 - THE HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS -- - An anthropological perspective on houses and households -- - Houses and the socio-cosmological order -- - The house as a social category -- - The temporality of domestic architecture -- - The cultural biography of houses --
- House, farmyard, farmstead -- - Constructing house and household -- - Building the house: an overview of house construction types -- - Social considerations in the choice of farmstead location -- - Ritualised aspects of house construction -- - Inhabiting the house -- - The use and ordering of space inside houses -- - The farmyard -- - Farmstead and household dynamics -- - Depositional practices associated with the phase of habitation -- - Abandoning the house -- - Abandonment practices -- - Farmstead abandonment and farmstead continuity in a diachronic perspective -- - Houses and households: concluding remarks -- - 4 - LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE LANDSCAPE -- - Settlement territories and local communities -- - The symbolic construction of communities -- - Community and landscape -- - Approaches to territoriality and land tenure in archaeology -- - Cemeteries and burial practices -- - Burial practices from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Roman period --
- Burial in cemeteries and alternative ways of treating the dead -- - Urnfield cemeteries and older burial monuments -- - Changing relationships between local communities and ancestors -- - Enclosed and open cult places and other enclosures -- - Rectangular enclosures with funerary connotations -- - Enclosures without apparent funerary connotations -- - Other types of cult places -- - Cult places and cult communities -- - Arable lands, celtic fields and agricultural systems -- - Celtic fields in the Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region and the Northwest European Plain -- - Arable lands, farmsteads and barrows -- - Celtic field agricultural systems and the dynamic use of arable lands -- - The development of a new agricultural regime in the later part of the Iron Age and the Roman period -- - Local communities and arable lands -- - Settlement nucleation -- - Early examples of settlement nucleation -- - Settlement enclosures --
- The local community and its settlement in the Late Iron Age and the Early Roman period -- - Local communities and settlement territories in time: discussion and synthesis -- - The Middle Bronze Age -- - The Urnfield period -- - The Middle and early Late Iron Age -- - The Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman period -- - 5 - MICRO-REGIONAL AND REGIONAL PATTERNS OF HABITATION, DEMOGRAPHY AND LAND USE -- - Research questions -- - Methodological issues -- - The habitation histories of four micro-regions -- - The Bladel-Hoogeloon region -- - The Weert-Nederweert region -- - The Someren region -- - The Oss region -- - The four micro-regions compared -- - Regional settlement patterns and demographic trends -- - The Middle Bronze Age -- - The Urnfield period -- - The Middle Iron Age and early Late Iron Age -- - The Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman period -- - Summary -- - Changing settlement patterns and environmental degradation --
- Population densities and soil degradation, an environmental model -- - Changing agricultural regimes in the later part of the Iron Age -- - 6 - LANDSCAPE, IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC -- - Flexible patterns of social identity and land tenure in a Middle Bronze Age barrow landscape -- - The Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age transition and the genesis of urnfields -- - Local communities, land and collective identity in the Urnfield period -- - Changing habitation patterns and social fragmentation at the end of the Urnfield period -- - New forms of social identity and land tenure in the Middle and early Late Iron Age -- - Diversified social foundations in the Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman era -- - The 'longue durée' and conjectural history -- - Social relationships and land tenure in a changing world -- - APPENDIX 1 - MEUSE-DEMER-SCHELDT REGION. DISTRIBUTION OF URNFIELDS -- - APPENDIX 2 - CATALOGUE OF URNFIELDS.
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