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J Eur Archaeol 1
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J Eur Archaeol 1
Series
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Series:
Journal of European Archaeology
Volume
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Volume:
1
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Publication Type:
Journal
Year of Publication
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Year of Publication:
1993
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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Created Date:
20 Jan 2002
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`The strength of the past and its great might'; an essay on the use of the past
Kristian Kristiansen
3 - 32
This essay is part of a critical analysis of the use of the past in present-day society. Different types of past (eg. heroic or domesticated pasts) are created in different contexts such as books and films, and in the landscape and in urban settings. History has become the dominant ideology of the present, in the interest of nationalist and other social groupings. The changing way in which the past is constructed through time is illustrated with the case of Denmark.
Can we recognise a different European past? A contrastive archaeology of later prehistoric settlements in southern England
J D Hill
57 - 75
Argues that archaeologists should become more critical of their assumptions when studying prehistoric settlements in Europe, stressing that they must learn to recognise the difference of the past. Traditional studies of later prehistoric settlements ask a limited range of questions of the data and portray past worlds which are immediately familiar to our own lived experience. The paper argues that such visions risk being modernist fantasies in prehistory, and suggests that we can avoid writing the past as if it were the same as the present. Offering a contrastive archaeology of Iron Age settlement in southern England, it illustrates a very different past to that of our expectations through considerations of how material entered the archaeological record, of the symbolic aspects of settlement layout, and of the nature of past subjectivities.