Stone Worlds
Narrative and Reflexive in Landscape Archaeology
Published on 30. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-84472-118-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of Bronze Age and present day worlds and landscapes on North West Bodmin Moor. It is the outcome of a highly innovative project which focused on the multivocality of method and interpretation associated with interpreting the past in the present. In terms of the archaeological past it provides a major synthesis of the Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor and specifically that at Leskernick. These Bronze Ages are contextualised against other Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain. Excavation, field survey, geomorphological analysis, environmental studies, anthropology and sociology all contribute to this analysis. The format of the book is highly experimental in its combination of different types of text (including dialogue, story telling and poetry) and visual imagery (including photo narratives).
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84472-118-4 (9781844721184)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Dr Sue Hamilton, Professor Barbara Bender Professor Christopher Tilley are at University College London.
Content
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; Stone Worlds; Alternative Narratives; Nested Landscapes; Bodmin Moor; the Living Bedrock; Methodologies; PART TWO: THE PRESENT PAST; Poem: Leskernick; The Old Sacred Places;The Houses and Enclosures of Leskernick: Arriving and Settling in. One - the Southern Side of the Hill; The Houses and Enclosures of Leskernick: Arriving and Settling in. One - the Western Side of the Hill; The Houses and Enclosures of Leskernick: Time Goes On; The Shrine Stone; Bewitched and Bewildered: Nature, Culture, Clitter; Photo Essay: Moving in Procession across Brown Willy; PART THREE: THE PRESENT PAST; 'A More Vivid fiction': An Introduction to the Sociological Study of the Leskernick Project; The Book and the Trowel: Archaeological Practice and Authority at the Leskernick Project; Poem - The Dig; Where Worlds Collide: the Past in the Present at Leskernick; Art and Re-presentation of the Past; PART FOUR: BEYOND THE HILL; Other ways of Telling: The 'Stoneworld' Exhibition; Letting Go: A Dialogue; Beyond the Hill: Place and Movement across the Moor; Between Moor and Plain: Trethevy Quoit; Beyond the Moor; Solution Basins: Libations to the Ancestors; Bibliography.