Dimapur, March 17 (EMN): During the recently concluded seminar—themed “Building Big? Global Scales of Monumentality”—and the ongoing workshop “Hierarchy and balance: the role of monumentality in European and Northeast Indian Landscapes,” archaeologists from Europe, mainland India and the Northeast discussed various issues about building traditions ‘in its varying shapes and meanings which have been a long-standing subject of prehistoric and historic archaeological research.’
The programme was organised by the Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of History and Archaeology, Nagaland University; and Graduate School ‘Human Development in Landscapes’ Kiel Collaborative Research Centre ‘Scales of Transformation’, Kiel University, Germany.
Some of the key discussions during seminar and workshop included - what does monumentality mean in different societies, how could a comparative approach be useful to answer archaeological questions on reconstructing social behaviour, how can a comparative approach be useful for studies on monumentality, where can similarities and dissimilarities found in such broad studies.
