Research Catalog

Title

Approaching monumentality in archaeology / edited by James F. Osborne.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Osborne, James F.

Description

xix, 453 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm.

Series Statement

• IEMA proceedings ; v. 3
• The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology distinguished monograph series
• University of Buffalo. Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology. Conference. IEMA proceedings ; v. 3.

Uniform Title

Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology distinguished monograph series.

Subjects

• Archaeology
• Monuments
• Symbolism in architecture
• Urban anthropology
• Architecture and society
• Kunst
• Sachkultur
• History
• Mittelmeerraum
• Monumentalität
• Archaeology > History
• Monuments > History
• Naher Osten
• Europa
• Denkmal

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Monuments and monumentality / James F. Osborne -- Elamite monumentality and architectural scale : lessons from Susa and Choga Zanbil / Daniel T. Potts -- Patronage and reception in the monumental architecture of early Christian Greece / William R. Caraher -- The monumentality of text / Edmund Thomas -- Building monuments, creating communities : early monumental architecture at pre-pottery neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich, and Klaus Schmidt -- Monuments and landscape : exploring issues of place, distance and scale in early political contest / Claudia Glatz -- Roman soliloquies : monumental interventions in the vacant landscape in the late republic and early empire / Álvaro Ibarra -- Monumentality among the Mediterranean Isles / Michael J. Kolb -- 4100-2700 B.C. : monuments and ideologies in the neolithic landscape / Johannes Müller -- Planning for the past in neolithic Central Europe / Peter Bogucki -- Death and the city : Asiatic columnar sarcophagi in context / Annetta Alexandridis -- Function and impact of monumental grave vases in the eighth century B.C. / Dietrich Boschung -- Mobile monumentality : the case of obelisks / Grant Parker -- Settlement mounds in spectacle-scapes in bronze age Turkey / Christoph Bachhuber -- The phenomenon of residential cities and city foundations in the ancient Near Rast : common idea or individual cases? / Mirko Novák -- Modern monumentality : European experiences / Göran Therborn -- The creation and experience of monumentality on protohistoric Cyprus / Kevin D. Fisher -- Performance and monumentality in the "Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta" / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper -- Visualizing the dynamics of monumentality / Willeke Wendrich -- From memorials to imaginaries in the monumentality of ancient North America / Timothy R. Pauketat.

ISBN

• 9781438453255
• 1438453256

LCCN

• 2013046282
• 99961260082

OCLC

• ocn867024504
• 867024504
• SCSB-5782433

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries