Heraldry for the Dead (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
2008-08-01
Förlag
University of Texas Press
Illustrationer
b&w illus.
Dimensioner
254 x 178 x 12 mm
Vikt
413 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780292718234

Heraldry for the Dead

Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia

Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-08-01
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In the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southern Portugal and Spain. About the size of one's palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques have mystified generations of researchers. What do their symbols signify? How were the plaques produced? Were they worn during an individual's lifetime, or only made at the time of their death? Why, indeed, were the plaques made at all? Employing an eclectic range of theoretical and methodological lenses, Katina Lillios surveys all that is currently known about the Iberian engraved stone plaques and advances her own carefully considered hypotheses about their manufacture and meanings. After analyzing data on the plaques' workmanship and distribution, she builds a convincing case that the majority of the Iberian plaques were genealogical records of the dead that served as durable markers of regional and local group identities. Such records, she argues, would have contributed toward legitimating and perpetuating an ideology of inherited social difference in the Iberian Late Neolithic.
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Katina T. Lillios is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Themes Chapter 2. Variations Chapter 3. Biographies Chapter 4. Agency and Ambiguity Chapter 5. An Iberian Writing System Chapter 6. Memory and Identity in Neolithic Iberia Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index