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AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 155-172Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2013.789224
Keywords
monumentality; scale; phenomenology; cultural memory; megaliths
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- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1124419] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Archaeological investigations in Africa have revealed numerous structures and other architectural features whose purposes transcended daily domestic activities. Compared to prototypical instances of monumental architecture (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes), many public structures in Africa appear in unusual economic circumstances (herding without farming) or amidst less extreme social differentiation. Although often smaller in scale and employing different structural elements, African constructions combine open and restricted spaces to shape human experience. Examining these public structures and spaces is leading Africanist archaeologists, like those on other continents, to reconsider definitions of monumentality, the causes for its inception and the purposes that it served.
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