Prehistoric materialities : becoming material in prehistoric Britain and Ireland /
Jones, Andrew, 1967-
Prehistoric materialities : becoming material in prehistoric Britain and Ireland / Andrew Meirion Jones. - 1st ed - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An Archaeological Order -- Archaeology in Flux -- Materials and Scale -- Materials, Colour and Light -- Materials and Categories -- Materials and Assemblages -- Materials and Performances -- Presenting Three Artefacts -- Mutable Archaeologies 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. Inthis 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 andsocieties 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.
9780191626289 9780199556427 9781280881626 9780191804380
9786613722935
Archaeology--Great Britain.
Archaeology--Ireland.
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Great Britain.
HISTORY--Ancient--General
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Archaeology
Ireland
Great Britain
Great Britain--Great Britain.
Ireland
Prehistoric materialities : becoming material in prehistoric Britain and Ireland / Andrew Meirion Jones. - 1st ed - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An Archaeological Order -- Archaeology in Flux -- Materials and Scale -- Materials, Colour and Light -- Materials and Categories -- Materials and Assemblages -- Materials and Performances -- Presenting Three Artefacts -- Mutable Archaeologies 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. Inthis 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 andsocieties 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.
9780191626289 9780199556427 9781280881626 9780191804380
9786613722935
Archaeology--Great Britain.
Archaeology--Ireland.
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Great Britain.
HISTORY--Ancient--General
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Archaeology
Ireland
Great Britain
Great Britain--Great Britain.
Ireland