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Landscape, Time and Memory Landscape, Time and Memory
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Chronology and Terminology Chronology and Terminology
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Sources and Methodology Sources and Methodology
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This Book: Aims and Context This Book: Aims and Context
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The Starting Point in 2004 The Starting Point in 2004
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1. Location by communication routes 1. Location by communication routes
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2. Location in relation to the administrative district 2. Location in relation to the administrative district
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3. Land suitable for assembly meetings 3. Land suitable for assembly meetings
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4. Law rocks and other ‘soap boxes’ 4. Law rocks and other ‘soap boxes’
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5. Mounds 5. Mounds
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6. Seating arrangements: square and circular structures 6. Seating arrangements: square and circular structures
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7. Vébönd (‘holy bands’) 7. Vébönd (‘holy bands’)
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8. Thing booths 8. Thing booths
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A New Interdisciplinary Approach A New Interdisciplinary Approach
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Assembly Landscapes: Complex and Layered Assembly Landscapes: Complex and Layered
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Notes Notes
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1 Assembly Research: Past and Present
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Published:August 2017
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Abstract
This chapter sets out the aims of the book and examines the three main themes of landscape, time and memory and how they relate to Norse assembly sites. The importance of the recent developments in landscape archaeology as well as earlier thing site research for the results of this study is explained. Based on this work, a new interdisciplinary research methodology, drawingon archaeological evidence, written sources and place-names, has been developed.Through this approach, the meaning and use of thingsites across the Norse world is explored. This book therefore moves beyond assembly site descriptions and analyses and also investigates the activities enacted at the assemblies, and how these were experienced by the people gathered. Other significant themes includeexplanations of chronology and the terminology used.
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