Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19938
Title: Monumentality and the Third-millennium "Towers" of the Oman Peninsula
Contributor(s): Cable, Charlotte  (author)orcid ; Thornton, Christopher P (author)
Publication Date: 2013
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19938
Abstract: Monumentality and the meaning of monuments have long been important parts of archaeological research into prehistoric complex societies. Over the past century, archaeological perspectives on ancient monuments have ranged from descriptive (formal) to interpretive (functional) to experiential (phenomenological) (e.g. Chapman 2003; Chapman and Grant 1989; Goldstein 1995; Richards 1996; Steadman 2005; Tilley 1994; Trigger 1990). The construction of monuments within the natural and cultural landscapes of a particular region makes them contextually relevant to ancient peoples and to more recent observers (Arnold 2002; Hingley 1996; Williams 1997). For the people who built them, they provided enduring commentary on a particular worldview (see Zimansky 1995). Today, these ancient monuments are frequently employed as material manifestations of cultural heritage (e.g. Abdi 2001; Bender 2002; Creighton 2007; Dodd 2007; Jokilehto 2005).
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Connections and Complexity: New Approaches to the Archaeology of South Asia, p. 375-399
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Place of Publication: Walnut Creek, United States of America
ISBN: 9781598746884
9781611326826
9781598746860
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
430102 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology
280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/169833723
Editor: Editor(s): Shinu Anna Abraham, Praveena Gullapalli, Teresa P Raczek, Uzma Z Rizvi
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