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Prehistoric Materialities: Becoming Material in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland

Jones, Andrew Meirion·2012·Oxford University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199556427.001.0001
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Abstract Humans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing. Yet in the twentieth century, archaeologists studying British prehistory have overlooked this fact in their search for past systems of order and pattern. Artefacts and monuments were treated as inert materials which were the outcomes of social ideas and processes. As a result materials were variously characterized as stable entities, such as artefact categories, styles, or symbols in an attempt to comprehend them. This book argues that, on the contrary, materials are vital, mutable, and creative; and archaeologists need to attend to the changing character of materials if they are to understand how past people and materials intersected to produce prehistoric societies. Rather than considering materials and societies as given, the book argues that we need to understand how these entities are performed. The book analyses the various aspects of materials, including their scale, colour, fragmentation, and assembly, in a wide-ranging discussion that covers the pottery, metalwork, rock art, passage tombs, barrows, causewayed enclosures, and settlements of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland.

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Authors
Jones, A. M.
Corresponding author
Jones, Andrew Meirion
ORCID
Jones, Andrew Meirion
Venue
Oxford University Press eBooks
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2012-07-05
DOI
10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199556427.001.0001
OpenAlex
W4248076679
Cited by
97
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Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3
FWCI
11.87
Type
book
Language
en
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closed
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Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Keywords
material change, prehistoric Britain, Neolithic, Early Bronze Age, pottery, metalwork, rock art, passage tombs, barrows, causewayed enclosures, prehistoric settlement, material performance, fragmentation, assembly

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