Local identities : landscape and community in the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region / / Fokke Gerritsen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143542303321
• Autore: Gerritsen Fokke Albert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2003; Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-280-95883-9; 9786610958832; 90-485-0514-3; 0-585-49816-4
• Edizione: [Rev. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Amsterdam archaeological studies ; ; 9
• Disciplina: 936
• Soggetti: Prehistoric peoples - Europe, Western; Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - Europe, Western; Human settlements - Europe, Western; Europe, Western Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This book is a slightly revised version of the doctoral dissertation the author completed in June 2001 and defended at the Faculty of Arts of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2001.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-285) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Archaeology in a sandy 'essen' landscape -- 3. The house and its inhabitants -- 4. Local communities and the organisation of the landscape -- 5. Micro-regional and regional patterns of habitation, demography and land use -- 6. Landscape, identity and community in the first millennium BC -- Abbreviations / References -- Appendix 1. Meuse - Demer - Scheldt Region. Distribution of Urnfields -- Appendix 2. Catalogue Of Urn Fields -- Index Of Geographical Names
• Sommario/riassunto: Gerritsen's study investigates how small groups of people 'households, or local communities' constitute and represent their social identity by shaping the landscape around them. Examining things like house building and habitation, cremation and burial, and farming and ritual ; practice, Gerritsen develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective on the practices that create collective senses of identity and belonging. An explicitly diachronic approach reveals processes of cultural and social change that have previously gone unnoticed, providing a basis for a much more dynamic history of the late prehistoric inhabitants of this region.