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Rev. ed. |
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1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9
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Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 9.
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| Note |
This book is a slightly revised version of the doctoral dissertation the author completed in June 2001 and defended at the Faculty of Arts of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in October 2001. |
| Thesis |
doctoral Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-285) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- Premodern landscape and its implications for archaeological research -- A brief overview of investigations into the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region -- Period of heathland archaeology -- Period of 'essen' archaeology -- Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region as a research area -- 3. HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS -- An anthropological perspective on houses and households -- Houses and the socio-cosmological order -- House as a social category -- Temporality of domestic architecture -- 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 -- Use and ordering of space inside houses -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Middle Bronze Age -- Urnfield period -- Middle and early Late Iron Age -- 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 -- Habitation histories of four micro-regions -- Bladel-Hoogeloon region -- Weert-Nederweert region -- Someren region -- Oss region -- Four micro-regions compared -- Regional settlement patterns and demographic trends -- Middle Bronze Age -- Urnfield period -- Middle Iron Age and early Late Iron Age -- 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 -- 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Europe.
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Prehistoric peoples. |
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Europe. |
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Europe.
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric. |
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Human settlements -- Europe.
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Human settlements. |
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Europe -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
| Chronological Term |
Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Epoche) |
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Electronic books.
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Academic theses.
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Academic theses.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gerritsen, Fokke Albert. Local identities. Rev. ed. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2003 9053565884 (DLC) 2003488378 (OCoLC)51952232 |
| ISBN |
0585498164 (electronic book) |
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9780585498164 (electronic book) |
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9053565884 |
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9789053565889 |
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