The Emergent Past: A Relational Realist Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices

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Chris Fowler (Lecturer in Later Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University)

The Emergent Past

A Relational Realist Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices

Chris Fowler (Lecturer in Later Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University)

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Oxford University Press
31 October 2013

Prehistoric archaeology; Archaeological methodology & techniques; Material culture

The Emergent Past approaches archaeological research as an engagement within an assemblage - a particular configuration of materials, things, places, humans, animals, plants, techniques, technologies, forces, and ideas. Fowler develops a new interpretative method for that engagement, exploring how archaeological research can, and does, reconfigure each assemblage. Recognising the successive relationships that give rise to and reshaped assemblages over time, he proposes a relational realist understanding of archaeological evidence based on a reading of relational and non-representational theories, such as those presented by Karen Barad, Tim Ingold, and Bruno Latour. The volume explores this new approach through the first ever synthesis of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in Northeast England (c.2500-1500 BC), taking into account how different concepts and practices have changed the assemblage of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in the past 200 years. Fowler argues that it is vital to retain the most valuable archaeological tools, such as typology, while developing an approach that focuses on the contingent, specific, and historical emergence of past phenomena. His study moves from analyses of changing types of mortuary practices and associated things and places, to a vivid discussion of how past relationships unfolded over time and gave rise to specific patterns in the material remains we have today.

By: Chris Fowler (Lecturer in Later Prehistoric Archaeology Newcastle University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199656370
ISBN 10: 0199656371
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 31 October 2013
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chris Fowler is a Lecturer in Later Prehistoric Archaeology in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Newcastle University. He specializes in British Neolithic and Early Bronze Age archaeology.