The Past in Prehistoric Societies

Bradley, Richard

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“…When the phenomenon 'the past in the past' is discussed, it normally concerns the use of clearly observable monuments such as graves and settlements that were well preserved and easily identified at the time, several centuries after erection, when they become incorporated into a new function (Bradley 2002;Jones 2007). In this case, we have quite another situation, but still a case where there is evidence of how prehistoric people intentionally used remains left by previous generations.…”

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The past in the past in the mortuary practice of hunter-gatherers: an example from a settlement and cemetery site in northern Latvia

Larsson

2017

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The past in the past in the mortuary practice of hunter-gatherers: an example from a settlement and cemetery site in northern Latvia

Larsson

2017

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“…MEMORY AND EMBODIED EXPERIENCE These are questions which have received detailed consideration within archaeology over the last twenty years (for example : Borić, 2010;Bradley, 2002;Jones, 2007;Whittle et al, 2007a). This paper will review parts of that debate with reference to the particular problems of memory and natural places.…”

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Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football

Peterson

Robinson

2012

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Rick Peterson is senior lecturer and course leader for archaeology in the School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, University of Central Lancashire. His current fieldwork focusses on the landscape setting and prehistoric occupation of caves and rock-shelters in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire. His broader research interests include the British Neolithic, particularly pottery, small scale societies in prehistory and the Holocene archaeology of caves. Social Memory and Ritual PerformanceABSTRACT This paper is concerned with archaeological evidence for the mechanisms by which group memory is transmitted. Specifically, how do natural places such as caves and rock shelters retain their status as foci for ritual activity? It draws upon recent social and archaeological theory around embodied memory: in particular Connerton's (1989) division of memory claims into three kinds. These are: personal memory claims; cognitive memory claims; and habit-memory.

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“…Moreover, they employed archaeology as a mechanism for social remembrance. As a result, Neville grew up in a veritable 'garden of time' (Bradley, 2002; see also Holtorf and Williams, 2006;Mytum, 2007). Amongst this Arcadian conflation of the natural and ancient worlds that incorporated both the house and its designed landscape, in Neville's day Audley End included real and striking archaeological remains within its grounds, i.e.…”

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Saxon Obsequies: the Early Medieval Archaeology of Richard Cornwallis Neville

Williams

2013

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This paper investigates the origins of British Anglo-Saxon archaeology by focusing on the work of one early Victorian archaeologist: Richard Cornwallis Neville. The seemingly descriptive and parochial nature of Neville’s archaeological pursuits, together with the attention he afforded to Romano-British remains, has impeded due recognition, and critical scrutiny, of his contributions to the development of early Medieval burial archaeology. Using his archaeological publications as source material, I will show how Neville’s interpretations of Saxon graves were a form of memory work, defining his personal, familial and martial identity in relation to the landscape and locality of his aristocratic home at Audley End, near Saffron Walden, Essex. Subsequently, I argue that Neville’s prehistoric and Romano-British discoveries reveal his repeated concern with the end of Roman Britain and its barbarian successors. Finally, embodied within Neville’s descriptions of early Medieval graves and their location we can identify a pervasive Anglo-Saxonism. Together these strands of argument combine to reveal how, for Neville, Saxon graves constituted a hitherto unwritten first chapter of English history that could be elucidated through material culture and landscape

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The Past in Prehistoric Societies

Cited by 111 publications

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The past in the past in the mortuary practice of hunter-gatherers: an example from a settlement and cemetery site in northern Latvia

The past in the past in the mortuary practice of hunter-gatherers: an example from a settlement and cemetery site in northern Latvia

Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football

Saxon Obsequies: the Early Medieval Archaeology of Richard Cornwallis Neville

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