Research Catalog

Title

Soils, stones and symbols : cultural perceptions of the mineral world / edited by Nicole Boivin & Mary Ann Owoc.

Author

Boivin, Nicole, 1970-

Publication

London : UCL, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Owoc, Mary Ann.
• European Association of Archaeologists.

Description

xiv, 235 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Subjects

• Soils > Religious aspects > Congresses
• Minerals > History > Congresses
• Mineral industries, Prehistoric > Congresses
• Stone > Religious aspects > Congresses
• Minerals > Social aspects > Congresses
• Minerals > Religious aspects > Congresses
• Archaeology > Congresses
• Folklore > Congresses
• Symbolic anthropology > Congresses

Note

• Held as a conference session entitled 'Soils, stones and symbols: cultural perceptions of the mineral world' at the European Association of Archaeologists meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

From veneration to exploitation: human engagement with the mineral world / Nicole Boivin -- Ochre, clay, stone and art: the symbolic importance of minerals as life-force among aboriginal peoples of northern and central Australia / Paul SC Taçon -- From the earth: minerals and meaning in the Hopewellian world / Douglas K. Charles ... [et al.] -- The mirror of the sun: surface, mineral applications and interface in California rock-art / David Robinson -- A phenomenology of the buried landscape: soil as material culture in the bronze age of south-west Britain / Mary Ann Owoc -- The cosmic earth: materiality and mineralogy in the Americas / Nicholas J. Saunders -- An axe to grind: symbolic considerations of stone axe use in ancient Australia / Adam Brumm -- Geoarchaeology and the goddess Laksmi: Rajasthani insights into geoarchaeological methods and prehistoric soil use / Nicole Boivin -- Choosing stones, remembering places: geology and intention in the megalithic monuments of Western Europe / Chris Scarre -- Reading the earth: philosophy in/of the field / Robert Frodeman -- Epilogue: Humans in a mineral world / Mary Ann Owoc.

Call Number

JFE 05-10001

ISBN

184472039X (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2005298209
• 9781844720392

OCLC

56911728

Author

Boivin, Nicole, 1970-

Title

Soils, stones and symbols : cultural perceptions of the mineral world / edited by Nicole Boivin & Mary Ann Owoc.

Imprint

London : UCL, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Owoc, Mary Ann.

European Association of Archaeologists.

Other Standard Identifier

9781844720392

Research Call Number

JFE 05-10001