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Where the land ends: isolation and identity on the western edge of prehistoric Europe

2014; Servicio de Publicaciones; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1988-2327

Richard Bradley,

Archaeological and Historical Studies

espanolEl texto discute la arqueologia prehistorica de cuatro regiones de la Europa atlantica que comparten nombres similares: Cabo Finisterre en Galicia, Finistere, en Bretana, Land's End en el suroeste de Inglaterra, y el Mull of Kintyre, en el oeste de Escocia. Ello sugiere que estos lugares estuvieron separados de sus hinterlands y, posiblemente, unos de otros. Estas regiones comparten ciertas caracteristicas en la epoca medieval, pero igualmente en la prehistoria. No solo poseen caracteristicas comunes, como la importancia de la produccion artesanal, estilos de arte y tradiciones de los monumentos, sino que trabajos recientes han documentado las conexiones directas entre ellos y sobre todo entre Galicia y la Bretana y entre Bretana y Cornualles. Es posible que hayan sido considerados como lugares donde la tierra llego a su fin, pero cualquier impresion de que carecian de contactos mas amplios se debe a las asunciones de los arqueologos que no han tenido en cuenta la importancia social de la marineria EnglishThis is a discussion of the prehistoric archaeology of four regions of Atlantic Europe which share similar names: Cabo Finisterre in Galicia, Finistere in Brittany, Land's End in south-west England, and the Mull of Kintyre in the west of Scotland. They suggest that such places were cut off from their hinterland and possibly from one another. These regions shared certain features in the Medieval period, but that was equally true during prehistory. Not only did they possess common characteristics, including the importance of craft production, art styles and traditions of monuments, recent work has documented direct connections between them and particularly between Galicia and Brittany and between Brittany and Cornwall. They may have been regarded as places where the land came to an end, but any impression that they lacked wider contacts is due to the assumptions made by archaeologists who have not taken into account the social importance of seafaring