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Working with the Past: Towards an Archaeology of Recycling

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Recycling is a basic anthropological process of humankind. The reutilization of materials or of ideas from the Past is a process determined by various natural or cultural causes. Recycling can be motivated by a crisis or by a complex symbolic cause like the incorporation of the Past into the Present. What archaeology has not insisted upon is the dimensional scale of the process, which operates from the micro-scale of the recycling of the ancestors’ material, up to the macro-scale of the landscape. It is well known that there are direct relations between artefacts and landscapes in what concerns the materiality and mobility of objects. An additional relation between artefact and landscape may be the process of recycling. In many ways artefact and landscape can be considered as one aspect of material culture, perceived at a different scale, since both have the same materiality and suffer the same process of reutilisation. This book invites archaeologists to approach the significant process of recycling within the archaeological record at two different levels: of artefacts and of landscape.

Author Biography:

DRAGOS GHEORGHIU is an historical anthropologist/archaeologist (PhD) and professional visual artist (BA Arch. and BA/MA Design) whose studies focus on the process of cognition, material culture and art. He began to produce works of art-and-archaeology starting in 1980, a concept he developed into artchaeology, and worked as a land-artist to reveal prehistoric monuments in Romania, Wales, Portugal and Sardinia. His recent research deals with the problem of immersion in reconstructed contexts in Augmented and Mixed Reality. Professor Gheorghiu is on the board of the UISPP Neolithic Commission, and a member of the European Association of Archaeologists. He is a Paul Mellon Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Release date NZ
July 24th, 2017
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Dragos Gheorghiu
  • Edited by Paul Mason
Illustrations
Illustrated throughout with 21 plates in colour
Pages
144
Dimensions
205x290x10
ISBN-13
9781784916299
Product ID
26877791

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