Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology

James F. Osborne is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

• IllustrationsTables1. Monuments and MonumentalityJames F. Osborne Part I. Monumental Architecture and Social Transformation 2. Elamite Monumentality and Architectural Scale: Lessons from Susa and Choga ZanbilDaniel T. Potts3. Patronage and Reception in the Monumental Architecture of Early Christian GreeceWilliam R. Caraher4. The Monumentality of TextEdmund Thomas5. Building Monuments, Creating Communities: Early monumental Architecture and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli TepeJens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich, and Klaus SchmidtPart II. Monumentality and Landscape 6. Monuments and Landscape: Exploring Issues of Place, Distance, and Scale in Early Political ContestClaudia Glatz7. Roman Soliloquies: Monumental interventions in the vacant Landscape in the Late Republic and Early EmpireÄlvaro Ibarra8. Monumentality among the Mediterranean IslesMichael J. Kolb 9. 4100–2700 B.C.: Monuments and Ideologies in the Neolithic LandscapeJohannes MüllerPart III. Monuments and Memory Work10. Planning for the Past in Neolithic Central EuropePeter Bogucki11. Death and the City: Asiatic Columnar Sarcophagi in ContextAnnetta Alexandridis12. Function and Impact of Monumental Grave Vases in the Eighth Century B.C.Dietrich Boschung13. Mobile Monumentality: The Case of ObelisksGrant ParkerPart IV. Monuments, Settlements, and Cities 14. Citadels in Spectacle-scapes in Bronze Age AnatoliaChristoph Bachhuber15. The Phenomenon of Residential Cities and City Foundations in the Ancient Near East: Common Idea or Individual CasesMirko Novák16. Modern Monumentality: European ExperiencesGöran TherbornPart V. The Experience of Monuments 17. The Creation and Experience of Monumentality on the Protohistoric CyprusKevin D. Fisher18. Performance and Monumentality in the "Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta"Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper19. Visualizing the Dynamics of MoneumentalityWilleke Wendrich20. From Memorials to Imaginaries in the Monumentality of Ancient North AmericaTimothy R. PauketatContributorsIndex