The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms.
Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social
differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the
intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the
precursor and origin-point for significant aspects of the modern
world. This book presents a very different image of Bronze Age
Britain and Ireland. Drawing on the wealth of material from recent
excavations, as well as a long history of research, it explores the
impact of the post-Enlightenment 'othering' of the non-human on our
understanding of Bronze Age society. There is much to suggest that
the conceptual boundary between the active human subject and the
passive world of objects, so familiar from our own cultural
context, was not drawn in this categorical way in the Bronze Age;
the self was constructed in relational rather than individualistic
terms, and aspects of the non-human world such as pots, houses, and
mountains were considered animate entities with their own spirit or
soul. In a series of thematic chapters on the human body,
artefacts, settlements, and landscapes, this book considers the
character of Bronze Age personhood, the relationship between
individual and society, and ideas around agency and social power.
The treatment and deposition of things such as querns, axes, and
human remains provides insights into the meanings and values
ascribed to objects and places, and the ways in which such items
acted as social agents in the Bronze Age world.
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