Whittle, A. W R., Barclay, A., Bayliss, A., McFadyen, L., Wysocki, M. and Schulting, R. J. (2007). Building for the dead. Histories of the dead:. Vol 17, pp. 123-147.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
Building for the dead | ||
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Subtitle The sub title of the publication or report |
events, processes and changing worldviews from the thirty-eighth to the thirty-fourth centuries cal. BC in southern Britain | ||
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Histories of the dead: | ||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
Cambridge Archaeological Journal | ||
Volume Volume number and part |
17 | ||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
123 - 147 | ||
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Journal | ||
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
the final paper reasserts the importance of sequence. Stressing that long barrows, long cairns and associated structures do not appear to have begun before the thirty-eighth century cal. BC in southern Britain, the authors give estimates for the relative order of construction and use of the five monuments analysed in the programme. The active histories of monuments appear often to be short, and the numbers in use at any one time may have been relatively low; the authors discuss time in terms of generations and individual lifespans. The dominant mortuary rite may have been the deposition of articulated remains (though there is much diversity); older or ancestral remains are rarely documented, though reference may have been made to ancestors in other ways, not least through architectural style and notions of the past. The authors relate these results not only to trajectories of monument development, but also to two models of development in the first centuries of the southern British Neolithic as a whole. In the first, monuments emerge as symptomatic of preeminent groups; in the second model, monuments are put in a more gradualist and episodic timescale and related to changing kinds of self-consciousness (involving senses of self, relations with animals and nature, perceptions of the body, awareness of mortality and attitudes to the past). Both more distant and more recent and familiar possible sources of inspiration for monumentalization are considered, and the diversity of situations in which mounds were constructed is stressed | ||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
2007 | ||
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Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
11 May 2007 |
