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Monumentality in Later Prehistory Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort
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Monumentality in Later Prehistory [electronic resource] : Building and Rebuilding Castell Henllys Hillfort / by Harold Mytum.
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9781461480273
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New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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XIV, 336 p. 141 illus., 87 illus. in color. online resource.
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This volume provides the results of a 30-year excavation, reconstruction, and public interpretation campaign at the late prehistoric inland promontory settlement of Castell Henllys, here focusing on the defensive sequence and the role of monumentality in later prehistory. The site has international significance because of the extensive excavations of the Iron Age palisaded settlement and later earthen ramparts, complex gateway, and chevaux-de-frise of upright stones. It is now widely recognised that the Iron Age consisted of many regional cultural traditions, and the excavations at Castell Henllys provide a vital contrast to the well-known large hillfort communities in other parts of England and Wales as well as across Europe. As such, it is a unique window into a widespread but largely ignored site category and form of social and economic organisation. The publication will provide a case study for the construction and use of the earthworks of a major European late prehistoric settlement type – the Iron Age hillfort; the monumental construction is compared with other communal investments such as the Mississippian mounds. It will also offer an innovative form of site reporting, including alternative interpretations of the earthworks as either military defences or the community-binding symbols. Along with Excavation, Experiment, and Heritage Interpretation: Castell Henllys Hillfort Then and Now, these books will be required reading by those studying the late prehistoric archaeology of Britain and Europe at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level, and by those in North America studying complex societies, monumentality, and ways of writing archaeology.
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Language
English
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October 07, 2013
Contents
Chapter 1- Enclosure and Monumentality: Hillforts in British and European Late Prehistory
Chapter 2- Castell Henllys in its Temporal, Cultural and Intellectual Contexts
Chapter 3 – The Palisade and Entrance
Chapter 4- The Interior: Roundhouses, Scoops and Activity Areas
Chapter 5- A Boundary In Stones: The Chevaux-De-Frise
Chapter 6- The Palisaded Settlement: Its Size, Character and Environmental Impact
Chapter 7- Previous Research on Hillfort Ramparts and Ditches
Chapter 8- Ramparts and Ditches on the Western Side of the Fort
Chapter 9- The Building of a Rampart: Stratigraphy and Action Unpicked
Chapter 10- Encircling the Promontory
Chapter 11-Ramparts and Ditches: Evidence and Inference
Chapter 12- Crossing Thresholds: Entrances in Stone
Chapter 13- Crossing Thresholds: From Monumental to Non-Monumental
Chapter14- An Epilogue: The Late Roman or post-Roman refurbishment
Chapter 15- Context, Function, Meaning.
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