Researching monumental spaces in late prehistoric societies: New perspectives for landscape research in the Russian Altai
| Autor: | Wouter Gheyle, Jean Bourgeois, Ruben Vergauwe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology History 060102 archaeology Anthropology Interpretation (philosophy) 06 humanities and the arts engineering.material Space (commercial competition) 01 natural sciences Prehistory Social dynamics Social space Bronze Age Iron Age engineering 0601 history and archaeology Bronze 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Archaeological Research in Asia. 15:34-44 |
| ISSN: | 2352-2267 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ara.2017.09.001 |
| Popis: | In this article we present a preliminary study discussing new perspectives for future research and interpretation of the Bronze and Iron Age monuments and monumental landscapes in terms of their social dynamic in these early complex societies. Archaeological landscape research in the last decades is characterized by a significant paradigmatic separation, resulting in often one-dimensional treatments of landscapes. Using certain concepts developed by Henri Lefebvre and Martina Low, we address social landscape as a three-dimensional social space , which enabled us to integrate multiple approaches. This triadic framework is discussed using a case study which focuses on data of the Karakol and Yustyd valley in the Russian Altai. Our study shows that the general transitions in the use and structure of monuments during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age can be variously interpreted. These interpretations are not necessarily exclusive but may each reflect a partial rendition of the triadic model of social space, or monumental space . |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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