Memory, Myth and Long-term Landscape Inhabitation

In recent years in archaeology there has been increasing acknowledgement of the afterlife of monuments and other features in the landscape, and the role of the past in the past, along with discussions of the spatial and chronological links manifested in monument complexes and ritual landscapes. Howe [...]
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In recent years in archaeology there has been increasing acknowledgement of the afterlife of monuments and other features in the landscape, and the role of the past in the past, along with discussions of the spatial and chronological links manifested in monument complexes and ritual landscapes. However this book takes the approach that memory studies are not at an advanced stage within archaeology; to date there has been little specific theoretical discussion of how such long-term persistence of place and practice was possible; and why this was the case. Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation explicitly seeks to use the evidence from recent large-scale developer-funded commercial archaeological excavation projects in the United Kingdom to address these questions, and to connect these new discoveries, as well as those from large-scale research projects, with current theoretical approaches. The volume also showcases some excellent examples of more everyday memory practices that took place on settlements and across landscapes in the past. There is a focus on British archaeology from the Neolithic to the Roman periods, but other contributions deal with the Neolithic of Central Europe, Etruscan landscapes, prehistoric Egypt and historic Native American practices.