Past in the Past: the Re-use of Ancient Monuments

Just as modern societies interpret ancient monuments and incorporate them in their political and cultural life, so people in the past often re-used their own monuments and places. The Past in the Past is unique in its thematic treatment of this topic. Highly illustrated with plates and photographs and including articles by internationally renowned specialists, this book will appeal to graduates, academics and anyone curious about the re-use of ancient monuments right up to the present day. Chapters include : Prehistoric histories; Ruined buildings, ruined stones: enclosures, tombs and natural places in the Neolithic of south-west England; The life-histories of megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany); Changing pasts and socio-political cognition in Late Bronze Age Cyprus; Sardinias nuraghi: four millennia of becoming; A tale of three sites: the monumentalization of Celtic oppida and the politics of collective memory and identity; Monuments and the past in early Anglo-Saxon England; A fear of the past: the place of the prehistoric burial mound in the ideology of Middle and Later Anglo-Saxon England; Reflections on the making of a royal site in early Ireland; Picts and prehistory: cultural resource management in early medieval Scotland; Rewriting landscape: incorporating sacred landscapes into cultural traditions