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Petrification processes in matter and society [electronic resource] / Hüglin, Alexander Gramsch, Liisa Seppänen, editors.

Hüglin, Sophie, editor.; Gramsch, Alexander, editor.; Seppänen, Liisa, editor.
2021
QE721.2.F6
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Title
Petrification processes in matter and society [electronic resource] / Hüglin, Alexander Gramsch, Liisa Seppänen, editors.
ISBN
9783030693886 (electronic bk.)
3030693880 (electronic bk.)
3030693872
9783030693879
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69388-6
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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
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English
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1 online resource.
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10.1007/978-3-030-69388-6 doi
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QE721.2.F6
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560/.41
Summary
Petrification is a process, but it also can be understood as a concept. This volume takes the first steps to manifest, materialize or petrify the concept of petrification and turn it into a tool for analyzing material and social processes. The wide array of approaches to petrification as a process assembled here is more of a collection of possibilities than an attempt to establish a firm, law-generating theory. Divided into three parts, this volume's twenty-plus authors explore petrification both as a theoretical concept and as a contextualized material and social process across geological, prehistoric and historic periods. Topics connecting the various papers are properties of materials, preferences and choices of actors, the temporality of matter, being and becoming, the relationality between actors, matter, things and space (landscape, urban space, built space), and perceptions of the following generations dealing with the petrified matter, practices, and social relations. Contributors to this volume study specifically whether particular processes of petrification are confined to the material world or can be seen as mirroring, following, triggering, or contradicting changes in social life and general world views. Each of the authors explores : for a period or a specific feature : practices and changes that led to increased conformity and regularity. Some authors additionally focus on the methods and scrutinize them and their applications for their potential to create objects of investigation: things, people, periods, in order to raise awareness for these or to shape or invent categories. This volume is of interest to archaeologists, geologists, architectural historians, conservationists, and historians.
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Hüglin, Sophie, editor.
Gramsch, Alexander, editor.
Seppänen, Liisa, editor.
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Themes in contemporary archaeology (Springer (Firm))
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Introduction: Solid to fluid : petrification as an interpretive concept for social and material change; Sophie Hüglin & Alexander Gramsch
Part. I CONCEPTS/APPROACHES
Chapter 1. Petrification : a concrete concept for past process comparison; Sophie Hüglin
Chapter 2. Solid Change. Aspects of petrification and transformation of matter and society; Alexander Gramsch.-Chapter 3. Petrification as Research Approach: its terminological potential for material culture studies; Melanie Wasmuth
Part II GEOLOGY/PREHISTORY. Chapter 4. Petrification in the Devonian : peering into the past 400 million years ago; Geoffrey Abbott
Chapter 5. How the Landscape Got its Bones: petrification processes in Karst prehistory; Dimitrij Mlekǔz
Chapter 6. The Hardness and the Eternal : petrification processes of prehistoric human figurines; Marina Gallinaro & Alessandro Vanzetti
Chapter 7. Petrification in the Neolithic? Comparing the use of wood and stone in the architecture of Neolithic Britain and Ireland;Chris Fowler
Chapter 8. The Temporality of Stone: Late Prehistoric Sculpture in Iberia; Marta Díaz-Guardamino
Chapter 9. Peaks, Pastures and Possession : prehistoric dry-stone structures in the Alps; Thomas Reitmaier, Francesco Carrer & Kevin Walsh
Chapter 10. Petrification Processes in Prehistoric Architectures. A view from the North;Tanja Romankiewicz
Part III CLASSICAL/HISTORICAL.-Chapter 11. Set in Stone? Exploring multiple dimensions of petrification in ancient Greek cities; Dominik Maschek
Chapter 12. A Sparrow in the Temple? The ephemeral and the eternal in Bede's Northumbria; Max Adams & Colm O'Brien
Chapter 13. Divine harmony on earth. Musical concepts in the architecture of early churches; Gianluca Foschi
Chapter 14. Medieval Monumentalization in Sardinia : petro-physical investigation and digital documentation; Stefano Columbu & Giorgio Verdiani
Chapter 15. Buildings, Networks and Institutionalization : petrification of medieval urban environments and society in the Baltic Rim region; Liisa Seppänen & Anna
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