LEADER 03334nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910810808003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79418-5 024 7 $a10.7560/718227 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720640 035 $a(OCoLC)311064517 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10273660 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000170378 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170378 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10223943 035 $a(PQKB)11770068 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443348 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2219 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443348 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273660 035 $a(DE-B1597)588531 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808806 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794184 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720640 100 $a20080415d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeraldry for the dead $ememory, identity, and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic Iberia /$fKatina T. Lillios 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71822-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-199) and index. 327 $aThemes -- Variations -- Biographies -- Agency and ambiguity -- An Iberian writing system -- Memory and identity in neolithic Iberia. 330 $aIn the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southern Portugal and Spain. About the size of one's palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques have mystified generations of researchers. What do their symbols signify? How were the plaques produced? Were they worn during an individual's lifetime, or only made at the time of their death? Why, indeed, were the plaques made at all? Employing an eclectic range of theoretical and methodological lenses, Katina Lillios surveys all that is currently known about the Iberian engraved stone plaques and advances her own carefully considered hypotheses about their manufacture and meanings. After analyzing data on the plaques' workmanship and distribution, she builds a convincing case that the majority of the Iberian plaques were genealogical records of the dead that served as durable markers of regional and local group identities. Such records, she argues, would have contributed toward legitimating and perpetuating an ideology of inherited social difference in the Iberian Late Neolithic. 606 $aNeolithic period$zIberian Peninsula 606 $aPlaques, plaquettes$zIberian Peninsula 606 $aBurial$zIberian Peninsula 606 $aAntiquities, Prehistoric$zIberian Peninsula 607 $aIberian Peninsula$xAntiquities 615 0$aNeolithic period 615 0$aPlaques, plaquettes 615 0$aBurial 615 0$aAntiquities, Prehistoric 676 $a936.6 700 $aLillios$b Katina T.$f1960-$01651579 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810808003321 996 $aHeraldry for the dead$94051335 997 $aUNINA