SHoW · SHARED WORLDS: revealing prehistoric shared worlds along Europe´s Atlantic Façade
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2019-05-01 → 2021-04-30
- EU contribution
- €158,122
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-CAR
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Results in brief
SHARED WORLDS: revealing prehistoric shared worlds along Europe´s Atlantic Façade
This project’s (ShoW’s) archaeological and interpretive goals investigated the notions of a shared world and shared values found in European policy today and connects with concepts of shared cultural understanding. These policies consider how to increase understandings between people for the benefit of society and societal resilience. The ultimate goal of this project, then, was to ascertain which understandings and values were shared along the Europe’s Atlantic Façade in prehistory. Applying uniquely combined cultural indicators of monuments, landscapes, skylines, and astronomy, this project reviewed the time-transcending phenomenon of the hundreds of thousands of prehistoric stone monuments erected across Europe, where new constructions continued for more than 2000 years. It was found that people acted in some kind of concert, creating a shared understanding and reconfirmation of their World by using shared knowledge and beliefs about Heavenly Astronomical Cycles and notions linked to life and death. Shared affirmations such as these could be seen as the hope for a stable community in the future. For beautiful photographs of megalithic landscapes & updates about entangled ideologies, things & Worlds connected to megaliths along the Atlantic Façade from the project SHoW – Shared Worlds, see https://gailhigginbottom.wixsite.com/mysite.#MSCActions #MSCA #HorizonEU #SHoW
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Project objective
The proposed project (SHoW) investigates the roles that landscapes, skylines and astronomy played in past peoples' lives in order to determine the cultural relatedness between people along Europe´s Atlantic Façade. Specifically, it investigates the types of visual-scapes people chose for the erection of their megalithic monuments within and across regions, that clearly seem to have some kind of related megalithic tradition, but which is not yet understood. Focusing on the periods of intensive monument building in prehistoric Iberia (c. 4500-2500 B.C.) and Britain (3100-900 B.C.), innovative 3D technology, along with interdisciplinary approaches already brought to bear on past projects by the candidate, will assist in the reconstruction of past visual worlds of the megalith builders of western Galicia and Scotland. These, plus the development and use of new approaches in geospatial techniques, 3D technology, statistical approaches and database management are key for the determination of the roles that landscapes, skylines and astronomy played in past peoples' lives. By investigating the role of the natural world, this project upholds and extends UNESCO’s Astronomy and World Heritage Thematic Initiative, for the project recognises that the way people observed the land and the sky in the past is a repository for people’s perception of their world. Understanding these things opens the way for a new consideration of shared tangible and intangible values in the past. In this way, this MSCA candidate will produce insights into some of the most iconic representations of cultural remembrance in Europe, revealing whether the reasons behind erecting megaliths were the same for people in different regions of Europe´s Atlantic Façade, and if not, what the differences might have been, and why. Ultimately, SHoW will reveal the degree to which the people in these regions possessed shared worlds.
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Participants
- AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridCoordinatorSpain
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