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Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region
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ISBN/EAN: 9781793619327
Umbreit-Nr.: 5549210
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 122 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 14.01.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
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- Zusatztext
- <p><span>For the prehistoric people of the Middle Atlantic region, copper held a fascination higher than rank, achievement, or status. Native copper artifacts, along with other exotic objects, were seen as a conduit or connection between the living and the dead and were used in burial. Other studies have viewed the use of such artifacts in burials as indicative of an individuals status and rank, providing evidence for complex society. In</span><span>Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity</span><span>, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that such economic explanations should be rethought, arguing that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual.</span></p>
- Kurztext
- <p><span>In</span><span>Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity</span><span>, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets in prehistoric burials in the Middle Atlantic region could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual.</span></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><span>Gregory Denis Lattanzi is curator of the bureau of archaeology& ethnography at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton and a New Jersey state archaeologist.</span></p>