Beyond Barrows: Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments

Beyond Barrows: Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments Illustrated Edition book cover

Beyond Barrows: Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments Illustrated Edition

Author(s): David R. Fontijn (Editor), Arjan J. Louwen (Editor), Sasja van der Vaart (Editor), Karsten Wentink (Editor)

  • Publisher: Sidestone Press
  • Publication Date: 30 April 2013
  • Edition: Illustrated
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 280 pages
  • ISBN-10: 9789088901089
  • ISBN-13: 9088901082

Book Description

Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session. The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of“ritual landscapes”. The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory. This publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University of Leiden.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Dr. Karsten Wentink started his studies in 2001 at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. He did a combined bachelors in both archaeological sciences (focus on functional analysis at the Laboratory for Artefact studies) and prehistoric archaeology (with a focus on the Neolithic of North-West Europe). He finished his Masters thesis in 2006 on Neolithic flint axe depositions. He started his PhD research in 2008 focussing on the role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices.

From the Back Cover

Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session.

The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of “ritual landscapes”.

The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory.

This book is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project.

Nederlandse beschrijving:
Verspreid door Europa liggen tienduizenden prehistorische grafheuvels. Ondanks hun alomtegenwoordigheid is er weinig bekend over de rol die zij speelden in de pre- en protohistorische landschappen. In 2010 kwam daarom een groep internationale archeologen bij elkaar tijdens een sessie op het EAA congres in Den Haag. Dit boek is een resultaat van die sessie.

Dit boek focust vooral op de prehistorie van Scandinavië en de Lage Landen, maar bevat ook een bijdrage over grote prehistorische heuvels in het zuidwesten van de verenigde Staten. In één van de bijdrages wordt nieuw bewijs gepresenteerd van een indrukwekkende ordening van het landschap ten tijde van de hunebedbouwers (Trechterbekercultuur) in Denemarken. Een andere bijdrage behandelt vergelijkbare resultaten van lange palenrijen rondom grafheuvels uit de Brons- en IJzertijd in Nederland. Enkele artikelen behandelen de rol van grafheuvels in het wijdere landschap, het belang van door mensen beheerde heidevelden en de ruimtelijke ordening van grafheuvels in het landschap. Andere auteurs gaan in op het belang van “persistent places” zowel in het vroege Neolithicum als de Late Bronstijd en beargumenteren dat we niet alleen naar het monumentale karakter van sites moeten kijken maar moeten proberen te begrijpen hoe deze op de lange termijn deel uit maken van “rituele landschappen”.

Het boek bevat ook een bijdrage van de bekende Zweedse archeoloog Tore Artelius over het hergebruik van Bronstijd grafheuvels door de Vikingen. Dit is het laatste artikel dat hij schreef voor zijn dood. Het boek is aan hem opgedragen.

About the Author

Dr. Karsten Wentink started his studies in 2001 at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. He did a combined bachelors in both archaeological sciences (focus on functional analysis at the Laboratory for Artefact studies) and prehistoric archaeology (with a focus on the Neolithic of North-West Europe). He finished his Masters thesis in 2006 on Neolithic flint axe depositions. He started his PhD research in 2008 focussing on the role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices.

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