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Materialitas: Working Stone, Carving Identity
Stone monuments and objects are highly accessible today and formed a focus for engagement, transformation and re-use in the past. Stone is inextricably linked to ideas of monumentality and remembrance. It formed an active medium in the creation of identities and memory in a range of social contexts and practices, including the embodied, performative and incorporated practices of daily activities and traditions. It can be argued that the material presence and physical character of stone objects and monuments were not only actively harnessed in these encounters, but were also the very stuff from which social relations were derived, perceived and thought through.
This volume explores the power and effect of stone through the meanings that emerged out of peoples engagement and encounters with its physical properties. Focused primarily on the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Atlantic Europe it brings together authors working on the materiality (materialitas) of stone via stone objects, rock art, monuments and quarrying activity. This highlights the connections that cross-cut what are traditionally seen as disparate research areas within the archaeological discipline.
This volume explores the power and effect of stone through the meanings that emerged out of peoples engagement and encounters with its physical properties. Focused primarily on the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Atlantic Europe it brings together authors working on the materiality (materialitas) of stone via stone objects, rock art, monuments and quarrying activity. This highlights the connections that cross-cut what are traditionally seen as disparate research areas within the archaeological discipline.
Book Details
- Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2010
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9781842173770
- Categories: • Archaeology• Ancient - General
Praise for this book
It is good to see the historical potential of stone at last being tapped so imaginatively.'--Mike Pitts "British Archaeology, 112, April 2010"
Overall, the volume offers many promising lines of enquiry and demonstrates just how much information can be extracted from a seemingly intractable material, if one approaches it with a wide range of questions. There is a refreshing willingness to take a critical view of theories of materiality, and an honesty about the purely speculative aspects of wringing meaning out of stone... This well-produced book - with its useful index and its initial overall abstracts in English, French and German - contains much valuable information and many fruitful approaches, and will be of lasting value to researchers.'--Alison Sheridan "Archaeological Journal, No. 166, 2010"
[Many] papers in this anthology deserve to be mentioned, all supporting the conclusion that 'stone rocks'. I found myself absorbed by reading this well composed anthology. If you are interested in exploring what a good interpretative archaeology could or ought to look like, some two decades after its inception, I suggest that you put Materialitas on your 'must-read' list.'--Joakim Goldhahn "European Journal of Archaeology, 14.1-2, 2011"