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Archaeology of Touchstones : an introduction based on finds from Birka, Sweden.
Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
SIdestone Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Did ancient Europeans truly believe in an active after-life, as modern Europeans would like to think they did? What purpose did grave-goods actually serve? Are archaeology and the historical sciences in general able to shed, once and for all, a curse placed upon them at their inception as research disciplines in the early nineteenth century? Searching for answers to these questions is the aim of this book which has been written on the basis of widely spread, typical components of grave-goods. For the last two centuries, they have been interpreted incorrectly, because of being aligned with arch. |
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| Notas: | Lege paginaLege pagina. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789088905193 9088905193 |