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Newgrange, Ireland (Contextual Method (experience (the spatial environment…
Newgrange, Ireland
Contextual Method
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experience
the spatial environment which surrounds us consists of a series of signifiers which we are constantly evaluating and interpreting. Just like written words, the hills, trees and buildings which we pass can be given meaning, 'read' and interpreted in many different ways
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In the case of the passage tombs, Sheridan discerns a sequence in which small boulder-bounded mounds and polygonal chambers approached by short passages slowly developed a more complex form. Chambers became more regular, and sometimes cruciform in plan, passages became larger and more structurally differentiated from the chamber, mounds became larger, and pecked and incised decoration emerged.
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In the passage tombs, the appreciation of the decorative art within passage and chamber had a part to play in introducing visual signification into the experience of the tomb, eliciting particular associations.
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Ideology
the intention was to influence the way in which these deposits, of symbolic importance to the reproduction of authority within a community
The way the bodies were buried displays some sort of authority.
Maybe only important people got buried in these tombs, he doesn't delve any deeper into the subject.
What if lower ranked individuals, or those defined on age or gender criteria subservient, were only able to gain access to the forecourt, or the outer part of the passage of the tomb? Their understanding of the tomb would be the consequence of a dialogue between the disclosed and the hidden
Some of the interior things are hidden from the outside. This can portray a different view to people who are only outside.
Reception
We can see this architectural complexity as an attempt to 'stage manage' or orchestrate the encounter with the ancestral remains.
The tomb was meant to be a special space. They took care in creating something "architecturally complex for the encounter with the ancestral remains"
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Arguments
It is this insight which allows us to investigate the architecture megalithic tombs, not necessarily to attempt to evoke the same specific meanings their internal spaces held for their builders and users, so much as to consider their role constraining movement and staging or framing particular ritual practices.
You don't need the exact meaning, How they used the space is the most important.
Thesis
Perhaps, then, we would do well to consider prehistoric monuments less from the dehumanized perspective of the air photograph, and more from that of the human subject moving about in space.
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