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By Katina T. Lillios, Vasileios Tsamis

How did historical Europeans materialize reminiscence? fabric Mnemonics: daily Practices in Prehistoric Europe presents a clean method of the archaeological learn of reminiscence. Drawing on case reviews from the British Isles, Scandinavia, crucial Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula that date from the Neolithic throughout the Iron Age, the books authors discover the implications of our figuring out of the earlier while reminiscence and mnemonic practices are put within the heart of cultural analyses. They speak about monument construction, own adornment, relic-making, mortuary rituals, the burning of our bodies and homes, and the upkeep of family areas and buildings over lengthy classes of time. fabric Mnemonics engages with modern debates at the intersection of reminiscence, id, embodiment, and tool, and demanding situations archaeologists to think about how materiality either provokes and constrains the mnemonic strategies in daily life.

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Another finding made recently at the Upper Viar Basin may be of relevance. 5km as the crow flies from Dolmen de Palacio III, two new “warrior stelae” were discovered. These are stone monuments loosely dated to the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; that is to say, they date to between c. 1300 and 550 cal BC. Approximately 114 examples of these stelae are currently known from Southwest Iberia (see Celestino Pérez 2001; Harrison 2004 for recent syntheses of this topic). The original context of these stones is unclear; both were found on a clearance cairn made by local farmers for arable agriculture.

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