Alternative icons: rethinking symbols of power in ‘The World of Stonehenge’
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Journal article
Date published
2024
Abstract
Current debates surrounding decolonisation and the democratisation of display are a critical issue for prehistoric collections as well as more recent material. The objects most likely to symbolise prehistory in museum displays, and thus in the popular imagination—those made of precious, skilfully worked materials—are a restricted group of iconic things, often interpreted as reflective of social status rather than anything more personal or spiritual. To contextualise this debate, the authors outline public reaction to the display of alternative objects with more representative messages within The World of Stonehenge exhibition, which was held at the British Museum in 2022.
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Icons in Context: Rethinking Symbols of Power at the Time of Stonehenge
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Arts and Humanities Research Council | AH/T007265/1 |
Journal title
Antiquity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
ISSN
0003-598X
eISSN
1745-1744
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