Booth, T., Chamberlain, A. T. and Parker Pearson, M. (2015). The mummies of bronze age Britain. British Archaeology 145. Vol 145, pp. 18-22.
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The mummies of bronze age Britain | |||||||||||||
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British Archaeology 145 | |||||||||||||
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British Archaeology | |||||||||||||
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145 | |||||||||||||
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66 | |||||||||||||
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18 - 22 | |||||||||||||
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In 2000, archaeologists excavated a row of exceptionally well preserved late Bronze Age roundhouses at Cladh Hallan on South Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland. Among four burials beneath the house floors were two that were each found to be made up from parts of three different people. This article explains how the conclusion was reached that the bodies had been mummified prior to their reassembly and eventual burial. Subsequent research by Tom Booth for a masters degree at the University of Sheffield sought further evidence for mummification in prehistoric Britain, but concluded that of the criteria used, only the examination of bone microstructures might consistently identify skeletonised mummies in the archaeological record. Funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council enabled him to further investigate the relationship between bacterial bioerosion and funerary treatment as a PhD project. The results suggest that mummification was a widespread and long-lived practice during the British Bronze Age, although not during other prehistoric periods. The final section of this article considers how mummification was achieved and reasons why it might have been done. LD | |||||||||||||
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2015 | |||||||||||||
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26 Dec 2015 |
