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Record Nr.

UNISA996208534103316

Autore

Gerritsen Fokke Albert

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2003

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 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

Human settlements - Europe, Western

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - Europe, Western

Europe, Western Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

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.