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Oxford J Archaeol 25 (4)
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Oxford J Archaeol 25 (4)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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25 (4)
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Journal
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Editor:
Barry Cunliffe
Chris Gosden
Helena Hamerow
Nicholas Purcell
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Blackwell Publishing
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Year of Publication:
2006
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/25/4
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22 Jan 2007
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The date and sequence of use of Neolithic funerary monuments: new AMS dating evidence from the Cotswold--Severn ...
Martin Smith
Megan B Brickley
335 - 355
The paper discusses twenty-six new Neolithic AMS dates obtained from human and animal bone from four previously undated funerary monuments in the Cotswold--Severn region. By strategically targeting particular portions of these skeletal assemblages, a number of valuable inferences are made concerning the extent of variation in apparently co-existing burial practices both within and between monuments. Of particular interest is the observation that variations in the extent to which interments have become disarticulated cannot necessarily be equated with chronological relationships regarding their deposition. The project has also obtained dates from cremated bone, which establish that the range of funerary treatments in practice during the earlier Neolithic also included cremation. Additionally it is observed that whilst some, apparently primary, deposits may in fact be later insertions, other material in apparently secondary contexts may actually return earlier Neolithic dates.
Offshore finds from the Bronze Age in north-western Europe: the shipwreck scenario revisited
Alice V M Samson
371 - 388
The article challenges received thinking relating to the interpretation of Bronze Age finds from the seabed in the waters of northwestern Europe, especially the North Sea and Channel areas. Metal objects recovered from the sea are traditionally presumed to be the result of shipwrecks. As such, their interpretation as casual, if unfortunate loss is unquestioned. However, abandoning the shipwreck scenario as a remnant of the `sacred vs profane' heuristic, it is suggested that offshore finds could provide insight into deliberate Bronze Age maritime practice, rather than misadventure. Certain patterning in the data of offshore finds, including affinities with hoards on terra firma, urges another interpretive framework -- that of considering the sea as a place for deposition. This appeared to be the case particularly in regions which experienced an intensity of maritime interaction, such as the Channel area during the Later Bronze Age. From this it is hypothesized that rather than being considered outside the Bronze Age social realm, the sea, especially in the Middle Bronze Age to earlier Late Bronze Age in the Channel area, was incorporated into Bronze Age cosmology in similar ways to other zones in the landscape.
Late Bronze and Iron Age lake settlement in Scotland and Ireland: the development of the `crannog' in the North and ...
M Graeme Cavers
389 - 412
The paper considers the evidence for the origins and development of the lake settlement tradition of Scotland and Ireland in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Considering a crannog `event horizon' around the mid-first millennium BC, dating and structural evidence are compared and contrasted, and the evidence for non-domestic activity including ritual and votive deposition is contextualised. It is argued that the concurrent appearance of crannogs with the flourish of domestic monumentality in Scotland and Ireland can be seen as a consequence of the fusion of ritual and domestic spheres of life in the later first millennium BC, integrating the themes of architectural monumentality and the Iron Age reverence of water.