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Mesolithic Miscellany 23 (2)
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Mesolithic Miscellany 23 (2)
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Mesolithic Miscellany
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23 (2)
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65
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Editor:
Nicky Milner
Mary Jackes
David Lubell
Christopher Meiklejohn
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Year of Publication:
2015
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28 Sep 2015
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A Mesolithic cremation-related deposit from Langford, Essex, England; a first for the British Mesolithic
Nick Gilmour
Louise Loe
55 - 57
In 2014 excavations were undertaken by Oxford Archaeology East in advance of a pipeline in Essex, revealing archaeology dating from most periods between the Mesolithic and modern. This short article is concerned with the discovery of a Mesolithic pit containing cremated remains, within an area of mainly Early Saxon archaeology close to the village of Langford. Bone and charcoal samples from the pit were radiocarbon dated to the mid-6th millennium BC, and three struck flints recovered from the pit were also compatible with a Mesolithic date. The material appears to represent redeposited pyre debris -- material remaining at the end of a cremation that was not collected with the rest of the bone for formal 'burial' -- and constitutes the first positively identified cremated human remains from the Mesolithic in Britain. LD
Lydia Zapata Pena (1965--2015)
Nicky Milner
Andrew Fairburn
63
Obituary for Lydia Zapata Pena, a Professor of Prehistory at the University of the Basque Country who specialised in palaeobotany, especially in anthracology and ethnobotany. Comprises personal reminiscences from two friends and colleagues, one of whom studied with Lydia at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, in the early 1990s. LD