Exploring prehistoric identity in Europe : our construct or theirs? /

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Imprint:Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books and the David Brown Book Company, [2014]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11210606
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Other authors / contributors:Ginn, Victoria (Victoria R.)
ISBN:9781842177471
1842177478
9781842177488
1842177486
9781842177495
1842177494
9781842178133
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:Identity is relational and a construct, and is expressed in a myriad of ways. For example, material culture and its pluralist meanings have been readily manipulated by humans in a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artefacts were often from or reminiscent of far-flung places and were used to demonstrate membership of an (imagined) regional, or European community. Earthworks frequently archive maximum visual impact through elaborate ramparts and entrances with the minimum amount of effort, indicating that the construction of identities were as much in the e.
Other form:Print version: Exploring prehistoric identity in Europe. Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books and the David Brown Book Company, [2014] 9781842178133