Theme:
1. Artefacts, Buildings & Ecofacts
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED Monuments in Landscape and Monumental Landscapes: The Archaeology of Neolithic Long Barrows in Europe II
Content:
Neolithic long barrows of 5th and 4th millennia BC are found in many regions of western and central Europe, and southern Scandinavia. Despite their formal and constructional similarities, their symbolic meaning was perhaps more regionally variable. In some regions they served mainly as funerary monuments and elements of monumental landscapes. Other communities were using long barrows as ancestral sanctuaries structuring ceremonial landscapes and community areas. In this session we want to address a wide range of issues connected to the spatial and chronological distribution of long barrows in their landscape context. Based on reconstructions of the spatial context of Neolithic monuments in their landscape is it possible to model the social relationships within the hypothetical framework of ritual landscapes? To what extent are long barrows and ditched enclosures connected as part of regional and superregional patterns of identity, community, and the place of individuals? How do long barrows contribute to the structuring of prehistoric landscapes?
Keywords:
Long Barrows, Neolithic, Northwest and Central Europe, Ritual landscape, Ancestral monuments
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Jan Turek (Czech Republic) 1
Co-organisers:
Petr Krištuf (Czech Republic) 2
Agnieszka Przybyl (Poland) 3
Affiliations:
1. Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague
2. Department of Archaeology, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
3. Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw
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