Of Rocks and Water : An Archaeology of Place.
People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices....
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| Imprint: | Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2014. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Contributor Addresses -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards an Archaeology of Place -- Chapter 2: A Place for Pilgrimage: The Ancient Maya Sacred Landscape of Cara Blanca, Belize -- Chapter 3: On Ancient Placemaking -- Chapter 4: Origins and Fertility: Mesoamerican Caves in Deep Time -- Chapter 5: Topographies of Power: Theorizing the Visual, Spatial and Ritual Contexts of Rock Reliefs in Ancient Iran -- Chapter 6: Other Monumental Lessons -- Chapter 7: Rock-Reliefs of Ancient Iran: Notes and Remarks -- Chapter 8: The Significance of Place: Rethinking Hittite Rock Reliefs in Relation to the Topography of the Land of Hatti -- Chapter 9: Places in the Political Landscape of Late Bronze Age Anatolia -- Chapter 10: Living Rock and Transformed Space -- Chapter 11: Event, Place, Performance: Rock Reliefs and Spring Monuments in Anatolia -- Chapter 12: Ruins within Ruins: Site Environmental History and Landscape Biography -- Chapter 13: Archaeological Landscapes, Pushed Towards Ruination -- Chapter 14: (Dis)Continuous Domains: A Case of "Multi-Sited Archaeology" from the Peloponnesus, Greece -- Chapter 15: Moving On: A Conversation with Chris Witmore -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Contributors all have a deep interest in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox places of human interaction with the mineral world, specifically the landscapes of rocks and water. Working with rock reliefs, sacred springs and lakes, caves, cairns, ruins and other meaningful places, they draw attention to the need for a rigorous field methodology and theoretical framework for working with such special places. At a time when network models, urban-centered and macro-scale perspectives dominate discussions of ancient landscapes, this unusual volume takes us to remote, unmappable places of cultural practice, social imagination and political appropriation. It offers not only a diverse set of case studies approaching small meaningful places in their special geological grounding, but also suggests new methodologies and interpretive approaches to understand places and the processes of place-making. | ||
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