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

A study of the archaeologies of landscape and community in the Northwest European Plain.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerritsen, Fokke Albert
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2003.
Edición:Rev. ed.
Colección:Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9.
Temas:
Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Epoche)
Prehistoric peoples > Europe.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric > Europe.
Human settlements > Europe.
Colonisation intérieure > Types préhistoriques > Europe.
Établissements humains > Europe.
Humanities.
Archaeology.
Landscape archaeology.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Antiquities
Human settlements
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Prehistoric peoples
Nederzettingen.
Prehistorie.
Geschichte.
Siedlung.
Europe > Antiquities.
Europe > Antiquités.
Europe
Maas-Demer-Schelde-Gebiet.
Multi-User.
Academic Dissertation
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • General theme and aims of research
  • Continuity and change in the archaeology of first millennium BC temperate Europe
  • Recent trends in landscape and settlement archaeology
  • A long-term perspective and its implications
  • Geographical and chronological framework
  • 2. ARCHAEOLOGY IN A SANDY 'ESSEN' LANDSCAPE
  • Aspects of geology and geomorphology
  • The premodern landscape and its implications for archaeological research
  • A brief overview of investigations into the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region
  • The period of heathland archaeology
  • The period of 'essen' archaeology
  • The Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region as a research area
  • 3. THE HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS
  • An anthropological perspective on houses and households
  • Houses and the socio-cosmological order
  • The house as a social category
  • The temporality of domestic architecture
  • The cultural biography of houses
  • House, farmyard, farmstead
  • Constructing house and household
  • Building the house: an overview of house construction types
  • Social considerations in the choice of farmstead location
  • Ritualised aspects of house construction
  • Inhabiting the house
  • The use and ordering of space inside houses
  • The farmyard
  • Farmstead and household dynamics
  • Depositional practices associated with the phase of habitation
  • Abandoning the house
  • Abandonment practices
  • Farmstead abandonment and farmstead continuity in a diachronic perspective
  • Houses and households: concluding remarks
  • 4. LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE LANDSCAPE
  • Settlement territories and local communities
  • The symbolic construction of communities
  • Community and landscape
  • Approaches to territoriality and land tenure in archaeology
  • Cemeteries and burial practices
  • Burial practices from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Roman period
  • Burial in cemeteries and alternative ways of treating the dead
  • Urnfield cemeteries and older burial monuments
  • Changing relationships between local communities and ancestors
  • Enclosed and open cult places and other enclosures
  • Rectangular enclosures with funerary connotations
  • Enclosures without apparent funerary connotations
  • Other types of cult places
  • Cult places and cult communities
  • Arable lands, celtic fields and agricultural systems
  • Celtic fields in the Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region and the Northwest European Plain
  • Arable lands, farmsteads and barrows
  • Celtic field agricultural systems and the dynamic use of arable lands
  • The development of a new agricultural regime in the later part of the Iron Age and the Roman period
  • Local communities and arable lands
  • Settlement nucleation
  • Early examples of settlement nucleation
  • Settlement enclosures
  • The local community and its settlement in the Late Iron Age and the Early Roman period
  • Local communities and settlement territories in time: discussion and synthesis
  • The Middle Bronze Age
  • The Urnfield period
  • The Middle and early Late Iron Age
  • The Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman period
  • 5. MICRO-REGIONAL AND REGIONAL PATTERNS OF HABITATION, DEMOGRAPHY AND LAND USE
  • Research questions
  • Methodological issues
  • The habitation histories of four micro-regions
  • The Bladel-Hoogeloon region
  • The Weert-Nederweert region
  • The Someren region
  • The Oss region
  • The four micro-regions compared
  • Regional settlement patterns and demographic trends
  • The Middle Bronze Age
  • The Urnfield period
  • The Middle Iron Age and early Late Iron Age
  • The Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman period
  • Summary
  • Changing settlement patterns and environmental degradation
  • Population densities and soil degradation, an environmental model
  • Changing agricultural regimes in the later part of the Iron Age
  • 6. LANDSCAPE, IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC
  • Flexible patterns of social identity and land tenure in a Middle Bronze Age barrow landscape
  • The Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age transition and the genesis of urnfields
  • Local communities, land and collective identity in the Urnfield period
  • Changing habitation patterns and social fragmentation at the end of the Urnfield period
  • New forms of social identity and land tenure in the Middle and early Late Iron Age
  • Diversified social foundations in the Late Iron Age and the beginning of the Roman era
  • The 'longue durée' and conjectural history
  • Social relationships and land tenure in a changing world
  • APPENDIX 1: MEUSE-DEMER-SCHELDT REGION. DISTRIBUTION OF URNFIELDS
  • APPENDIX 2: CATALOGUE OF URNFIELDS.

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