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Approaching monumentality in archaeology / edited by James F. Osborne.

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: IEMA proceedings ; Volume 3 | The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology distinguished monograph seriesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.Description: xix, 453 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781438453262
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA9335, A67 2014
Contents:
Monuments and monumentality / James F. Osborne -- PART I. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION. Elamite monumentality and architectural scale : lessons from Susa and Choga Zanbil / Daniel T. Potts -- Patronage and reception in the monumental architecture of early Christian Greece / William R. Caraher -- The monumentality of text / Edmund Thomas -- Building monuments, creating communities : early monumental architecture at pre-pottery neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich, and Klaus Schmidt -- PART II. MONUMENTS AND LANDSCAPE. Monuments and landscape : exploring issues of place, distance and scale in early political contest / Claudia Glatz -- Roman soliloquies : monumental interventions in the vacant landscape in the late republic and early empire / Álvaro Ibarra -- Monumentality among the Mediterranean Isles / Michael J. Kolb -- 4100-2700 B.C. : monuments and ideologies in the neolithic landscape / Johannes Müller -- PART III. MONUMENTS AND MEMORY WORK. Planning for the past in neolithic Central Europe / Peter Bogucki -- Death and the city : Asiatic columnar sarcophagi in context / Annetta Alexandridis -- Function and impact of monumental grave vases in the eighth century B.C. / Dietrich Boschung -- Mobile monumentality : the case of obelisks / Grant Parker -- PART IV. MONUMENTS, SETTLEMENTS, AND CITIES. Citadels in spectacle-scapes in Bronze Age Turkey / Christoph Bachhuber -- The phenomenon of residential cities and city foundations in the ancient Near Rast : common idea or individual cases? / Mirko Novák -- Modern monumentality : European experiences / Göran Therborn -- PART V. THE EXPERIENCE OF MONUMENTS. The creation and experience of monumentality on protohistoric Cyprus / Kevin D. Fisher -- Performance and monumentality in the "Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta" / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper -- Visualizing the dynamics of monumentality / Willeke Wendrich -- From memorials to imaginaries in the monumentality of ancient North America / Timothy R. Pauketat.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Monuments and monumentality / James F. Osborne -- PART I. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION. Elamite monumentality and architectural scale : lessons from Susa and Choga Zanbil / Daniel T. Potts -- Patronage and reception in the monumental architecture of early Christian Greece / William R. Caraher -- The monumentality of text / Edmund Thomas -- Building monuments, creating communities : early monumental architecture at pre-pottery neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich, and Klaus Schmidt -- PART II. MONUMENTS AND LANDSCAPE. Monuments and landscape : exploring issues of place, distance and scale in early political contest / Claudia Glatz -- Roman soliloquies : monumental interventions in the vacant landscape in the late republic and early empire / Álvaro Ibarra -- Monumentality among the Mediterranean Isles / Michael J. Kolb -- 4100-2700 B.C. : monuments and ideologies in the neolithic landscape / Johannes Müller -- PART III. MONUMENTS AND MEMORY WORK. Planning for the past in neolithic Central Europe / Peter Bogucki -- Death and the city : Asiatic columnar sarcophagi in context / Annetta Alexandridis -- Function and impact of monumental grave vases in the eighth century B.C. / Dietrich Boschung -- Mobile monumentality : the case of obelisks / Grant Parker -- PART IV. MONUMENTS, SETTLEMENTS, AND CITIES. Citadels in spectacle-scapes in Bronze Age Turkey / Christoph Bachhuber -- The phenomenon of residential cities and city foundations in the ancient Near Rast : common idea or individual cases? / Mirko Novák -- Modern monumentality : European experiences / Göran Therborn -- PART V. THE EXPERIENCE OF MONUMENTS. The creation and experience of monumentality on protohistoric Cyprus / Kevin D. Fisher -- Performance and monumentality in the "Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta" / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper -- Visualizing the dynamics of monumentality / Willeke Wendrich -- From memorials to imaginaries in the monumentality of ancient North America / Timothy R. Pauketat.

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