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Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 240x170 mm, B/w and colour
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Dec-2021
  • Leidėjas: Oxbow Books
  • ISBN-10: 1789257476
  • ISBN-13: 9781789257472
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 320 pages, aukštis x plotis: 240x170 mm, B/w and colour
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Dec-2021
  • Leidėjas: Oxbow Books
  • ISBN-10: 1789257476
  • ISBN-13: 9781789257472
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Raktažodžiai:
Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they also speak of the care shown to the dead by the living, and of people’s relationships with 'things'. Objects matter.

This book's title is an intentional play on words. These are objects in burials; but they are also goods, material culture, that must be taken seriously. Within it, we outline the results of the first long-term, large-scale investigation into grave goods during this period, which enables a new level of understanding of mortuary practice and material culture throughout this major period of technological innovation and social transformation. Analysis is structured at a series of different scales, ranging from macro-scale patterning across Britain, to regional explorations of continuity and change, to site-specific histories of practice, to micro-scale analysis of specific graves and the individual objects (and people) within them. We bring these different scales of analysis together in the first ever book focusing specifically on objects and death in later prehistoric Britain.

Focusing on six key case study regions, the book innovatively synthesises antiquarian reports, research projects and developer funded excavations. At the same time, it also engages with, and develops, a number of recent theoretical trends within archaeology, including personhood, object biography and materiality, ensuring that it will be of relevance right across the discipline. Its subject matter will also resonate with those working in anthropology, sociology, museology and other areas where death, burial and the role of material culture in people’s lives are key contemporary issues.

A large-scale investigation into grave goods (c. 4000 BC–AD 43), enabling a new level of understanding of mortuary practice, material culture, technological innovation and social transformation.

Recenzijos

[ T]his is a well-researched and presented book and discussions of the whys and wherefores of grave goods throughout later prehistory are discussed in a generally open-minded way. * Archaeologia Cambrensis - Cambrian Archaeological Association *

List of figures
vi
List of tables
x
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction
1(10)
1.1 The rationale and scope of the Grave Goods project
1(2)
1.2 Grave matters: three preconceptions
3(3)
1.3 Research questions and methods: between large-scale datasets and `object biography'
6(2)
1.4 Results and outcomes
8(3)
2 From `appurtenances of affectionate superstition' to `vibrant assemblages': an historiography of grave goods
11(34)
2.1 Introduction
11(2)
2.2 Early explorations: `lasting reliques'
13(2)
2.3 Antiquarian excavations: `All the treasures I could obtain'
15(4)
2.4 Typologies of things and people: social evolutionary approaches
19(2)
2.5 `Devoted to the dead': the concept of material affection
21(3)
2.6 Pots as people? Grave goods and culture history
24(1)
2.7 Funerals and folklore
25(4)
2.8 Rank, status and power
29(4)
2.9 `Where only the heart is competent': the impact of ethnography and mortuary sociology
33(4)
2.10 Relational, vibrant assemblages and kinwork
37(5)
2.11 Osteobiographies and object histories
42(2)
2.12 Discussion
44(1)
3 Grave goods: the big picture
45(30)
3.1 The foundations of the project
45(11)
3.2 Grave goods in later prehistoric Britain: broad-scale patterning
56(17)
3.3 Discussion
73(2)
4 What goes in a grave? Situating prehistoric grave goods in relation to the wider materials of life
75(36)
4.1 Introduction
75(3)
4.2 Previous approaches to material relationships between archaeological contexts
78(10)
4.3 Accessing the `living material repertoire'?
88(4)
4.4 Charting the ebb and flow of objects deposited in burials, hoards and settlements, 4000 BC--AD 43
92(3)
4.5 Relating burials, hoards and settlements: detailed case studies from Dorset and Kent
95(14)
4.6 Discussion
109(2)
5 Small things, strong gestures: understated objects in prehistoric graves
111(34)
5.1 Introduction
111(1)
5.2 A context for understated grave goods
112(6)
5.3 Animal remain grave goods
118(13)
5.4 What is in a pebble? Another thing that only people who collect pebbles will understand
131(4)
5.5 Less is more: burials with just one thing
135(2)
5.6 Small sets and bundles
137(6)
5.7 Discussion
143(2)
6 Performing pots: the most common grave good of all
145(40)
6.1 Introduction
145(2)
6.2 Pots in the Grave Goods database
147(2)
6.3 A potted summary: pots in graves from the Early Neolithic to the Late Iron Age
149(12)
6.4 New pots, old pots, fresh pots, used pots: vessels made for the moment and vessels with a biography
161(4)
6.5 Size matters
165(9)
6.6 The aesthetics of pots
174(4)
6.7 Positions, grouping and arrangement of pots in the grave
178(5)
6.8 Discussion
183(2)
7 Material mobility: grave goods, place and geographical meaning
185(34)
7.1 Introduction
185(2)
7.2 `Exotic' materials and mobility in prehistoric Europe
187(3)
7.3 Material mobility from the Neolithic to the Iron Age: a brief outline
190(7)
7.4 Grave goods and material mobility
197(3)
7.5 `Exotic' materials
200(5)
7.6 Local materials
205(10)
7.7 Discussion
215(4)
8 Time's arrows: the complex temporalities of burial objects
219(44)
8.1 Introduction: time and burial
219(2)
8.2 `Multi-temporal' mortuary material culture in the Neolithic
221(21)
8.3 Pyre goods, cremation and the temporalities of funerary process
242(8)
8.4 Living in the moment: cremation burials of the Late Iron Age
250(11)
8.5 Discussion
261(2)
9 Discussion: grave choices in a material world
263(4)
9.1 Representing people and ideas
263(1)
9.2 Democratising grave goods and exploring conceptual boundaries
263(2)
9.3 Grave goods and the wider picture
265(2)
Appendix: objects recorded within the Grave Goods database 267(6)
Bibliography 273(28)
Index 301
Anwen Cooper has worked extensively in both commercial and academic archaeology sectors. She is interested in the later Bronze and Iron Ages of north-west Europe, interpretative approaches to material culture and landscape, critical approaches to archaeological practice and prehistoric pottery. Duncan Garrow teaches later European prehistory and archaeological theory at the University of Reading. His research interests include long-term histories of deposition, burial practices, island archaeologies and interdisciplinary approaches to material culture. Catriona Gibson has worked extensively in both commercial and academic archaeology. Her research interests include exploring evidence for connectivity and mobility during later prehistory, the Beaker/EBA periods in western Europe, and forging stronger bridges between developer-led and academic archaeology. Melanie Giles teaches archaeology at the University of Manchester, specialising in the Iron Age, particularly Celtic art, as well as the bog bodies of north-western Europe. She works not just on the analysis and interpretation of burials but on aspects of visualisation and display. Neil Wilkin is curator of Early Europe (Neolithic and Bronze Age collections) at the British Museum. His research focuses on grave goods, hoards, and the relationships between different strands of archaeological knowledge.