Recycling is a basic anthropological process of humankind. The reutilization of materials or of ideas from the Past is a process determined by various natural or cultural causes. Recycling can be motivated by a crisis or by a complex symbolic cause like the incorporation of the Past into the Present. What archaeology has not insisted upon is the dimensional scale of the process, which operates from the micro-scale of the recycling of the ancestors’ material, up to the macro-scale of the landscape. It is well known that there are direct relations between artifacts and landscapes in what concerns the materiality and mobility of objects. An additional relation between artifact and landscape may be the process of recycling. In many ways artifact and landscape can be considered as one aspect of material culture, perceived at a different scale, since both have the same materiality and suffer the same process of reutilization. This book invites archaeologists to approach the significant process of recycling within the archaeological record at two different levels: of artifacts and of landscape.
This book invites archaeologists to approach the significant process of recycling within the archaeological record at two different levels: of artifacts and of landscape.
This book invites archaeologists to approach the significant process of recycling within the archaeological record at two different levels: of artefacts and of landscape.
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The Never Ending Journey: Cycling and Recycling Seen through a Critical Assessment of the Taphonomic Process |
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Sustainability, Health, and Society: Prehistoric Artefacts as Sustainable Materials |
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Recycling Power and Place: The Many Lives of Traprain Law, SE Scotland |
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Tells as Recycled Places. Experimenting the Chalcolithic Ritual Technologies of Construction and Deconstruction |
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Copper and Bronzes: The Birth of Complete Recycling in The Bronze Age |
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Rock Art Recycled? On the Use of Bronze Age Rock Art Sites during the Iron Age in Southern Scandinavia |
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Recycled Memories: The Past and Present in Early Iron Age Landscapes of Southern Germany |
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Ancestral Places: The Creation and Recycling of Monumental Landscapes in South-Eastern Slovenia in The 1st Millennium BC and the 1st Millennium AD |
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Recycling Pots, Places and Practices: The Roman Cemetery at Podlipoglav |
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Secondary Use of Storage Vessels and Household Pottery During the Late Middle Ages: Pottery in Vaults as a Case Study |
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The Reuse of Materials during the Medieval and Post-Medieval Periods: A Case Study of Recycling Building Materials in Rothwell, near Leeds, England |
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Drago Gheorghiu is a historical anthropologist/archaeologist and experimentalist whose studies focus on the process of cognition, material culture, ancient technologies, and iconography. Professor Gheorghiu has edited books on anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines, fire in archaeology, fire as an instrument, early ceramic traditions, metaphorical thought, experientiality and imagination in archaeology. During the last two decades he carried out large scale experiments of art and archaeology.
