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Living Monuments - Continuity and Transformation in Burial Landscapes

Burial monuments are often perceived as result of a single action in time/space continuum. While monuments are used by the community that initially raised them, in the same way or for the same purpose that they were constructed for, all interventions of on such structures are interpreted and recorded as “adjustments” or “modifications”. On the other hand, all latter interventions are disregarded as “destruction”, “devastation”, or in the mildest version, “disturbance”. In misdirected quest for “the original” archaeological context, complex dynamics of change of those monuments, from the moment of creation to the present, remains marginal, or in worst cases is ignored in their interpretation. However, if we treat burial monuments as dynamic archaeological features, we will see that these monuments are not passive objects, but active agents in history of relation between different communities and their landscape. Based on several case studies this paper will show how changes in physical appearance or structure of those monuments can relate to conceptual transformation or continuity of the monuments themselves.

burial mounds; reuse; Hallstatt; burial landscape

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