Research Catalog

Title

• Ritual and domestic life in prehistoric Europe / Richard Bradley.

Author

Bradley, Richard, 1946-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description

xiv, 234 p. : ill., maps, plans; 24 cm.

Summary

This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. With extensive illustrated case studies, the text examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, all of which were ritualized in prehistoric Europe.

Subject

• Agriculture, Prehistoric > Europe
• Architecture, Prehistoric > Europe
• Europe > Antiquities
• Prehistoric peoples > Europe
• Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric > Europe
• Tools, Prehistoric > Europe
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-230) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Death and the harvest : how archaeologists have distinguished between ritual and domestic life -- The consecration of the house : how domestic buildings took on special qualities -- A duty of care : how everyday activities assumed a special significance -- A house with a pool : rituals and the materials of farming -- Multiplication and division : the problem of utilitarian bronze hoards -- The rites of separation : domestic rituals and public ritual in the Iron Age -- What remains to be seen : some implications of the argument.

ISBN

• 0415345502 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415345510 (pbk.)
• 0203567048 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
• 0415235510 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2004019540

OCLC

56413839

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library