Archaeologies Of Remembrance: Death And Memory In Past Societies Death And Memory In Past Societies

How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory. Introduction / Howard Williams -- Building From Memory / Vicki Cummings -- Rates Of (ex)change / Chris Fowler -- Technologies Of Rememberance / Andrew Jones -- Tales From The Dead / Mike Williams -- Remembering Rome / Valerie M. Hope -- Objects Without A Past? / Hella Eckardt And Howard Williams -- Iconoclasm, Belief And Memory In Early Medieval Wales / Gareth Longden -- Memories In Stone / David Petts -- Memory, Salvation And Ambiguity / Victoria Thompson -- Remembering And Forgetting The Medieval Dead / Howard Williams -- Memories Of The Early Medieval Past / Donnie Effros -- Dyster Star Dosen / Cornelius Holtorf. Edited By Howard Williams. Papers From A Conference Session Of The Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference Held In December 2000 At St. Catherine's College, Oxford. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. As an introduction to the volume, this chapter aims to address three areas.