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In Praise of Small Things: Death and Life at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Burial of Bolores, Portugal
Katina T. Lillios, Anna J. Waterman, Jennifer Mack, Joe Alan Artz and Liv Nilsson-Stutz
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This volume presents the results of archaeological research conducted at the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age burial site of Bolores between 2007 and 2012, which built on work carried out in 1986. Bolores is a small site (5 x 3 m), yet the analysis of its structure and associated materials have yielded a rich and nuanced picture of a small population of people who lived, and died, in the third and second millennia BC in the Portuguese Estremadura. Although our research focused on the small-scale, it also attempted to bridge this perspective with the larger social and cultural dynamics at play during the time. It advocates, in its own way, for greater attention to the micro-scale: small sites, small objects, bone fragments, and details in ritual practice. In a time when Big Data, Big History, and global phenomena loom large in public and scholarly imagination, we think it is also important to understand the variegated texture of local, small-scale social practices, which, after all, are linked to broader sociocultural phenomena and hold the key to understanding resistance and social change.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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List of Figures and Tables
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Figure and Table Credits
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Authors and Contributors
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Preface
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1. The People of Bolores and their World
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2. The Excavation of Bolores
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3. Bolores as Place and Space
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4. The Dead of Bolores
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5. Materializing the Dead
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6. Interacting with the Dead
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7. A população de Bolores e o seu mundo
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Published: 2015
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407313696 (paperback)
- 9781407343310 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2716