Death Revisited by Arjan Louwen
This book presents a group of small and inconspicuous barrows that were recently discovered in the forest of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. They are part of an extensive barrow landscape of which little was yet known. Fieldwork carried out in and around them yielded a wealth of new data. It was discovered that even the most inconspicuous and heavily damaged mound of this group still contained many special features. This special place was anchored around a site that probably had a particular significance in the Late Neolithic, and where special rituals were carried out during the Bronze Age, resulting in the construction of an enigmatic row of pits – rituals the likes of which have not previously been attested around barrows in the Netherlands, but which are known elsewhere in Europe. The dead were buried at locations that were probably only later covered by monuments. During the Bronze Age (between the 18th and 15th centuries BC) the mounds of this small barrow group were used as collective graves for what was probably perceived as one specific ‘community of ancestors’. The burial practices in the mounds show strong similarities and it is argued that these barrows were each other’s successors, representing the funeral history of people who wished to unite their forebears in death as one unproblematic whole without distinctions. The fieldwork showed that even small-scale, partial excavations of a seemingly minor barrow group can inform us on the significance of the extensive barrow landscapes they are part of – a knowledge that can help us to understand the prehistoric legacy of the Netherlands and to protect it for the future as heritage.
Arjan Louwen (1986) studied 'Prehistory of Northwest Europe' at Leiden University. Already as a student he developed a keen interest in funerary archaeology and took part in several key-excavations of prehistoric barrows and urnfields. After graduation in 2010, Arjan has worked alternatingly in commercial archaeology (Archol bv. Leiden) and for Leiden University as a field archaeologist. Since 2012 he has worked full-time at Leiden University, first as a teacher and field director, later as PhD-student. His PhD-research revolved around the funerary practices associated with the urnfields in the Lower-Rhine-Basin. Arjan is currently still working at Leiden University as a teacher and trains students in their first field skills. Key publications: Fontijn, D./ Q. Bourgeois/ A.J. Louwen 2011. Iron Age Echoes. Prehistoric land management and the creation of a funerary landscape - the twin barrows at the Echoput in Apeldoorn, Leiden, Sidestone press. Fontijn, D.R./ A.J. Louwen/ S.A. van der Vaart/ K. Wentink 2013. Beyond Barrows. Current research on the structuration and perception of the prehistoric landscape through monuments. Leiden, Sidestone press. Louwen, A.J., 2018. -1629 - Een bronstijdbegrafenis volgens Brusselse conventies? In: 't Hart, M., K. Davids, K. Fatah-Black, L. Heerma van Voss, L. Lucassen and J. Touwen (eds.). Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (Huygens instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis). Amsterdam: Ambo/Anthos, 33 - 38. Louwen, A.J./ D.R. Fontijn 2019. Death revisited. The excavation of three Bronze age barrows and surrounding landscape at Apeldoorn-Wieselseweg. Leiden, Sidestone Press. David Fontijn is professor in the Archaeology of Early Europe at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His research deals with the early agrarian societies of Europe from prehistory up until the early historical period, with special attention to the Bronze Age and (early) Iron Age, the exchange and deposition of metalwork and on the archaeology of so-called ritual landscapes. He is director of Research of the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden. He is currently leading the NWO-VICI project Economies of Destruction investigating the puzzling destruction of valuable objects in Bronze Age Europe (2015-). In his previous research project, the NWO-Open Competition project Ancestral Mounds (2008-2013), a multi-disciplinary team dealt with the archaeology of burial mounds. He is co-applicant and main supervisor of the current NWO-funded projects Powerful Identities (on Early Iron Age elite burials, carried out by S. van der Vaart, 2012-) and Breaking and Making the Ancestors (on burial practices in Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, carried out by A. Louwen, 2014-).
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| ISBN 13 | 9789088905803 |
| ISBN 10 | 9088905800 |
| Titel | Death Revisited |
| Autor | Arjan Louwen |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Sidestone Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2019-09-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 200 |
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