By Katina T. Lillios, Vasileios Tsamis

How did historical Europeans materialize reminiscence? fabric Mnemonics: daily Practices in Prehistoric Europe presents a clean method of the archaeological research of reminiscence. Drawing on case reviews from the British Isles, Scandinavia, imperative Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic during the Iron Age, the books authors discover the implications of our knowing of the previous whilst reminiscence and mnemonic practices are put within the heart of cultural analyses. They speak about monument development, own adornment, relic-making, mortuary rituals, the burning of our bodies and homes, and the upkeep of family areas and constructions over lengthy sessions of time. fabric Mnemonics engages with modern debates at the intersection of reminiscence, identification, embodiment, and tool, and demanding situations archaeologists to contemplate how materiality either provokes and constrains the mnemonic strategies in daily life.

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Hence, natural places, rock art, death, and time past were articulated together in a complex set of beliefs whereby special places became prominent in cultural memory. In the Neolithic of southern England, the visibility of existing monuments also seems to have been one factor (possibly among many) in the choice of where to build new megalithic monuments, perhaps because the visibility of abandoned-but-symbolically-laden places would have conveyed greater authority 34 Leonardo García Sanjuán and David W.

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