Prehistoric Materialities

Becoming Material in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland

Andrew Meirion Jones (Reader in Archaeology, University of Southampton)

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Oxford University Press
19 July 2012

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Archaeological theory; Prehistoric archaeology; Archaeological methodology & techniques

Humans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing. Yet in the twentieth century archaeologists studying British prehistory have overlooked this fact in their search for past systems of order and pattern. Artefacts and monuments were treated as inert materials which were the outcomes of social ideas and processes. As a result materials were variously characterized as stable entities such as artefact categories, styles or symbols in an attempt to comprehend them. In this book Jones argues that, on the contrary, materials are vital, mutable, and creative, and archaeologists need to attend to the changing character of materials if they are to understand how past people and materials intersected to produce prehistoric societies. Rather than considering materials and societies as given, he argues that we need to understand how these entities are performed.

Jones analyses the various aspects of materials, including their scale, colour, fragmentation, and assembly, in a wide-ranging discussion that covers the pottery, metalwork, rock art, passage tombs, barrows, causewayed enclosures, and settlements of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland.

By: Andrew Meirion Jones (Reader in Archaeology University of Southampton)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 221mm, Width: 149mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199556427
ISBN 10: 0199556423
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 July 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Jones is a Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice (2002), Memory and Material Culture (2007), editor of Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice (2008), and co-editor ,with G. Macgregor, of Colouring the Past (2002).

Reviews for Prehistoric Materialities: Becoming Material in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland

a scholarly and thorough work, building in part on the author's previous research into archaeology and colour - as such, the text is vividly descriptive, showing a keen eye for detail. * Current Archaeology * Valuable material * Carl Knappett, University of Toronto, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *