Gardening time: Monuments and landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the very long Iron Age

Edited by Simon Stoddart, Ethan D. Aines & Caroline Malone

Gardening may seem worlds away from Nuraghi and brochs, but tending a garden is a long process involving patience, accretion and memory. Scholars argue that memories are also cultured, developed and regained. The monuments in Scotland and Sardinia are testament to the importance of memory and its role in maintaining social relations.

This collection of twenty-one papers addresses the theme of memory anchored to the enduring presence of monuments, mainly from Scotland and Sardinia, but also from Central Europe and the Balkans.

Complete volume - Gardening time: Monuments and landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the very long Iron Age
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Memory in practice and the practice of memory in Caithness, northeast Scotland, and in Sardinia
Chapter 3 - Monuments and memory in the Iron Age of Caithness
Chapter 4 - Materializing memories: inheritance, performance and practice at Broxmouth hillfort, southeast Scotland
Chapter 5 - Memories, monumentality and materiality in Iron Age Scotland
Chapter 6 - Rooted in water: the Scottish island-dwelling tradition
Chapter 7 - Remembering Nuraghi: memory and domestication of the past in nuragic Sardinia
Chapter 8 - Revisiting Glenelg a century after Alexander O Curle: reconstructing brochs in treeless landscapes
Chapter 9 - Beyond the Nuraghe: perception and reuse in Punic and Roman Sardinia
Chapter 10 - The Nuraghe’s life in the Iron Age
Chapter 11 - Monumentality and commemoration at a Late Neolithic henge site in Scotland
Chapter 12 - Walking across the land of the Nuraghi: politics of memory and movement in central-western Sardinia during the Bronze Age
Chapter 13 - Memory as a social force: transformation, innovation and refoundation in protohistoric Sardinia
Chapter 14 - Burial locations, memory and power in Bronze Age Sardinia
Chapter 15 - Memory and movement in the Bronze Age and Iron Age landscape of central and southeastern Slovenia
Chapter 16 - The reuse of monuments in Atlantic Scotland: variation between practices in the Hebrides and Orkney
Chapter 17 - The nuragic adventure: monuments, settlements and landscapes
Chapter 18 - Changing media in shaping memories: monuments, landscapes and ritual performance in Iron Age Europe
Chapter 19 - Cultivated and constructed memory at the nineteenth-century cemetery of Cagliari
Chapter 20 - morentur in Domino libere et in pace: cultural identity and the remembered past in the medieval Outer Hebrides
Chapter 21 - Memory and material representation in the Lismore landscape
Chapter 22 - Nuragic memories: a deep-seated pervasive attitude
Chapter 23 - Endnote: gardening time in broader perspective
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