The Archaeology of People and Territoriality

Place and territoriality have become key archaeological concepts over the last decade or so, and in this volume sixteen essays explore the ways in which place is created and how it reflects and shapes ancient societies. Case studies are mostly prehistoric with a global scope, including the phenomenology of rock art in New South Wales, the use of fire as a ritual marker of place in prehistoric Europe and Papua New Guinea, the design of irrigation systems in Chile, sacred space and heritage in Wisconsin, the transmission of symbols from late Mesolithic material culture to the Neolithic LBK, the siting of holy wells in medieval England, the organisation of space in late Bronze Age and Iron Age Slovenia, the siting of cursus sites, as well as more theoretical papers, which seek to define terminology and are in some cases critical of the way that place and territoriality have previously been used.