IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1003: Petrification Processes: Artefacts, Architecture, and Afterlife
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | McCord Centre for Historic & Cultural Landscape, Newcastle University |
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| Organiser: | Sophie Hueglin, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Victoria Whitworth, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands & Islands, Orkney |
| Paper 1003-a | Parcels and Possession, Petrification and Permanence (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious |
| Paper 1003-b | Materials and Methods, Movements, and Motivations (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular |
| Paper 1003-c | Graves and Go(o)ds, Generations, and Genealogy (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - General |
| Abstract | 'Petrification' can be understood as a process of change whose effect (whether intended or not) was to make something more permanent, trans-generational, or even eternal. Deliberate reforms and renewals like the change from wood to stone in early medieval architecture were literally a kind of petrification, but societies might consequently have been 'petrified' in a more profound way. The resulting material remains can be interpreted by medieval archaeologists: the papers in this session attempt to investigate and explain some examples of such transformations. |