Interpretative ArchaeologyChristopher Tilley This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists. |
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Frameworks for an Archaeology of the Body | 31 |
The Hermeneutics of Megalithic Space | 73 |
Interpreting Causewayed Enclosures in the Past | 99 |
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alignments ancestors angled passage graves archaeology architecture artefacts associated axes Barnenez body Bohuslän bones Bradley Britain Brittany Bronze Age burial cairn Cambridge University Press Carnac Carnac mounds carvings causewayed enclosures central chamber changes Christopher Tilley cists construction contemporary context cromlech decorated depicted deposits discourse Earlier Neolithic enclosures evidence excavation female Figure Finistère Foucault gallery graves Gavrinis gender Hambledon Hill Hodder Hoëdic human identity interpretation Kinnes knowledge landscape London long mound Maes Maiden Castle male Mané Manio material culture meaning megalithic megalithic art megalithic tombs menhirs ments Mesolithic metaphor monuments Morbihan motifs narrative non-phallic novel orthostats Oxford particular past phallic pottery practices Prehistory present produced reference ribs Richard ritual sexual Shee Twohig 1981 Sheffield significance social relations society space spatial stone rows Stones of Stenness structure suggest symbolic tertre tumulaire Tilley tion tombs torso tradition transformation