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Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island Ritual (Hardcover)
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Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island Ritual (Hardcover)
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What constitutes an island and the archaeology contained within? Is
it the physicality of its boundary (between shoreline and sea)?
Does this physical barrier extend further into a watery zone?
Archaeologically, can islands be defined by cultural heritage and
influence? Clearly, and based on these few probing questions,
islands are more than just lumps of rock and earth sitting in the
middle of a sea or ocean. An island is a space which, when
described in terms of topography, landscape form and resources,
becomes a place. A place can sometimes be delineated with barriers
and boundaries; it may also have a perimeter and can be
distinguished from the space that surrounds it. The 16 papers
presented here explore the physicality, and levels of insularity of
individual islands and island groups during prehistory through a
series of case studies on Neolithic island archaeology in the
Atlantic and Mediterranean regions. For the eastern Atlantic (the
Atlantic Archipelago) papers discuss the sacred geographies and
material culture of Neolithic Gotland, Orkney, and Anglesey and the
architecture of and ritual behaviour associated with megalithic
monuments in the Channel Islands and the Scilly Isles. The
Mediterranean region is represented by a different type of
Neolithic, both in terms of architecture and material culture.
Papers discuss theoretical constructs and ritual deposition, cave
sites, ritualised and religious aspects of Neolithic death and
burial; metaphysical journeys associated with the underworld in
Late Neolithic Malta and the possible role of its Temple Period art
in ritual activities; and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the
Neolithic monuments of Corsica. The cases examined illustrate the
diversity of the evidence available that affords a better
understanding of the European-Mediterranean Neolithic 'island
society', not least the effects of interaction/contact and/or
geographical insularity/isolation, all factors that are considered
to have consequences for the establishment and modification of
cultures in island settings.
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