Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice

Download or read book Life Biography of Artefacts and Ritual Practice written by Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a session held at the EAA conference in Vilnius in 2016, this book focuses on creating biographies from material culture as a means of understanding the relationship between the life of an artefact, the temporality of ritual practices and an object's final deposition. The temporal and geographic scope of these chapters range from Mesolithic Scandinavia, Neolithic practices found across Eastern, Central, Northern and Western Europe and stretches into the Eneolithic, Copper Age and early Bronze Age of central Europe.