As Time Goes By? " Monumentality, Landscapes And The Temporal Perspective. Proceedings Of The International Workshop "Socio-Environmental Dynamics Over The Last 12,000 Years: The Creation Of Landscapes Ii (14 Th –18 Th March 2011)" In Kiel. Volume 2 (original) (raw)
In March 2011 the Graduate School "Human Development in Landscapes" of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel held their second open workshop, "Socio-environmental Dynamics Over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes II". This internationally acknowledged event with participants from 22 countries gathered expertise in Kiel by offering a forum through which to advance research on landscape archaeology and social space. This volume is concerned with one session of the<br> workshop. The session title "As time goes by" refers to the temporal perspective of monuments. The main idea was to change focus from the notion of durability that is commonly emphasised when discussing monuments in the historical and archaeological disciplines towards a perspective highlighting biographies and histories of monuments, their changing shapes, associations and forms of uses within the dynamic social landscapes they are part of.
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Furholt, F., Hinz, M. Mischka, D.,, “As time goes by ? ” Monumentality, Landscapes and the Temporal Perspective. Proceedings of the International Workshop “Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes II (14 th –18 th March 2011)” in Kiel. Volume 2, 2012