LEADER 04790nam 2200625 450 001 9910792660703321 005 20230126214951.0 010 $a1-78570-192-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985397 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4772968 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11320171 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL980144 035 $a(OCoLC)939245137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4772968 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985397 100 $a20170110h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe archaeology of darkness /$fedited by Marion Dowd and Robert Hensey 210 1$aOxford, [England] ;$aPhiladelphia, [Pennsylvania] :$cOxbow Books,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (169 pages, 15 unnumbererd pages of plates) $cillustrations, tables 311 $a1-78570-191-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aPast dark : a short introduction to the human relationship with darkness over time / Robert Hensey -- Darkness visible : shadows, art, and the ritual experience of caves in Upper Palaeolithic Europe / Paul B. Pettitt -- Between symbol and senses : the role of darkness in ritual in prehistoric Italy / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- Experiencing darkness and light in caves : later prehistoric examples from Seulo in central Sardinia / Robin Skeates -- The dark side of the sky : the orientations of earlier prehistoric monuments in Ireland and Britain / Richard Bradley -- In search of darkness : cave use in Late Bronze Age Ireland / Marion Dowd -- Digging into the darkness : the experience of copper mining in the Great Orme, North Wales / Sian James -- Between realms : entering the darkness of the Hare Paenga in ancient Rapa Nui (Easter Island) / Sue Hamilton and Colin Richards -- Dark places and supernatural light in early Ireland / John Carey -- Enfolded by the long winter's night / Charlotte Damm -- "The outer darkness of madness" : the Edwardian Winter Garden at Purdysburn Public Asylum for the insane / Gillian Allmond -- Descent into darkness / Tim O'Connell -- Coming in and out of the dark / Gabriel Cooney. 330 2 $a"Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore the Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. They examine how the senses are affected in caves and monuments that were used for ritual activities, from Bronze Age miners in Wales working in dangerous subterranean settings, to initiands in Italian caves, to a modern caver's experience of spending time in the one of the world's deepest caves in Russia. We see how darkness was and is viewed at northern latitudes where parts of the year are spent in eternal night, and in Easter Island where darkness provided communal refuge from the pervasive sun. We know that spending extended periods in darkness and silence can affect one physically, emotionally and spiritually. How did interactions between people and darkness affect individuals in the past and how were regarded by their communities? And how did this interaction transform places in the landscape? As the ever-increasing electrification of the planet steadily minimises the amount of darkness in our lives, curiously, darkness is coming more into focus. This first collection of papers on the subject begins a conversation about the role of darkness in human experience through time"--From publisher's website. 606 $aSocial archaeology$vCongresses 606 $aEthnoarchaeology$vCongresses 606 $aLandscape archaeology$vCongresses 606 $aNight$xSocial aspects$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aCaves$xSocial aspects$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aLight and darkness$xSocial aspects$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aPassage Graves culture$vCongresses 606 $aHuman ecology$xHistory$vCongresses 615 0$aSocial archaeology 615 0$aEthnoarchaeology 615 0$aLandscape archaeology 615 0$aNight$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aCaves$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aLight and darkness$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPassage Graves culture 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory 676 $a304.209 702 $aDowd$b Marion 702 $aHensey$b Robert 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792660703321 996 $aThe archaeology of darkness$93748367 997 $aUNINA