ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Göbekli Tepe, Great Zimbabwe, Mount Nemrut

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: Christina Giovas

Document Summary

Monumentality -> something that reminds something that is huge and permanent, that commemorates or memorializes. Create places that focus on social activity. Carry meanings which may be lost or shift over time. Propaganda from anti octus (?) to symbolize the diversity of ppl, his fam"s pwr. We can"t separate monuments from their social context. Meaning and memory and how its maintained and transformed in mon. Understand the relationship b/w experience and perception. Conspicuous consumption -> the bigger the monument is the more energy. Costly signalling -> by building expensive monuments, the building group is is needed to build it showing other rival groups that they are powerful. Aspects of the landscape that were altered by humans. Aspects of the landscape that have not been altered by humans. Polysemic -> holding the capacity for multiple meanings. Multivocal -> the fact that both monuments and landscapes can hold many diff meanings and functions for diff people.