The Emergent Past - A Relational Realist Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices (Hardcover)

The Emergent Past approaches archaeological research as an engagement within an assemblage - a particular configuration of materials, things, places, humans, animals, plants, techniques, technologies, forces, and ideas. Fowler develops a new interpretative method for that engagement, exploring how archaeological research can, and does, reconfigure each assemblage. Recognising the successive relationships that give rise to and reshaped assemblages over time, he proposes a relational realist understanding of archaeological evidence based on a reading of relational and non-representational theories, such as those presented by Karen Barad, Tim Ingold, and Bruno Latour. The volume explores this new approach through the first ever synthesis of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in Northeast England (c.2500-1500 BC), taking into account how different concepts and practices have changed the assemblage of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in the past 200 years. Fowler argues that it is vital to retain the most valuable archaeological tools, such as typology, while developing an approach that focuses on the contingent, specific, and historical emergence of past phenomena. His study moves from analyses of changing types of mortuary practices and associated things and places, to a vivid discussion of how past relationships unfolded over time and gave rise to specific patterns in the material remains we have today.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2013
Authors:	Chris Fowler
Dimensions:	236 x 163 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-965637-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological methodology & techniques Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology
LSN:	0-19-965637-1
Barcode:	9780199656370

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