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Beaker Phenomenon?

Name: Beaker Phenomenon?
Brand: Sidestone Press
SKU: 9789088904639
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Understanding the character and context of social practices in Ireland 2500-2000 BC

Autor: Neil Carlin

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During the mid-third millennium BC, people across Europe started using an international suite of nov...

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Autor

Neil Carlin

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2018

Pagini

500

EAN

9789088904639

ISBN

9088904634

Enbook ID

16228140

Editura

Sidestone Press

Greutate

662

Dimensiuni

219 x 283 x 12

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During the mid-third millennium BC, people across Europe started using an international suite of novel material culture including early metalwork and distinctive ceramics known as Beakers. The nature and social significance of this phenomenon, as well as the reasons for its rapid and widespread transmission have been much debated. The adoption of these new ideas and objects in Ireland, Europe's westernmost island, provides a highly suitable case study in which to investigate these issues. While many Beaker-related stone and metal artefacts were previously known from Ireland, a decade of intensive developer-led excavations (1997-2007) resulted in an exponential increase in discoveries of Beaker pottery within apparent settlement contexts across the island. This scenario is radically different from Europe where these objects are found with Beakers in funerary settings, stereotypically with single burials.Using an innovative approach, this book interlinks the study of the pottery and various object types (that have traditionally been studied in isolation) with their context of discovery and depositional treatment to characterise social practices within settlements, funerary monuments, ceremonial settings and natural places. These characterisations deliver rich new understandings of this period which reveal a much more nuanced narrative for this international phenomenon.Significantly, this integrated regional study reveals that the various Beaker-related objects found in Ireland were all deposited during a series of highly structured and rule-bound activities which were strongly influenced by pre-existing Irish traditions. This is a departure from previous interpretations which incorrectly attributed the adoption of Beakers to large-scale immigration or a prestige goods economy. Instead, these new international ideas, objects and practices played an important role in enabling people in Ireland to perform and negotiate their personal and group identities by using this new suite of object to frame and maintain their social relations with other groups across Europe.ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface1. Introduction: querying the Beaker Phenomenon?2. New versions of old stories3. A settled past4. Remembering everyday life5. Fragments of the Dead?6. Commemorations of Ceremonies Past?7. Transformational acts in transitional spaces8. A time for Beakers?9. Everything in its right place?10. The Beaker phenomenon in Ireland and Beyond?Bibliography