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Oxford J Archaeol 24 (3)
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Oxford J Archaeol 24 (3)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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24 (3)
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Journal
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Barry Cunliffe
Helena Hamerow
Nicholas Purcell
Andrew Sherratt
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Blackwell Publishing
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2005
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/24/3
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21 Apr 2006
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Master and apprentice, knight and squire: education in the `Celtic' Iron Age
Raimund Karl
255 - 271
The role of education and agency of children as factors in the formation of Iron Age culture is addressed. Historical sources on education from Iron Age Gaul are compared with later `medieval Celtic' practices. The author suggests that fosterage may have been the evolutionary precursor of apprenticeships and knight--squire relationships, as developed in the feudal states of medieval Europe. It is argued that fosterage establishes artificial kinship, strengthens kinship alliances by providing hostages, helps to forge strong emotional bonds between foster parents, children and siblings, and helps to confirm social hierarchies, while providing specialized education; that professional specialists gain increased security outside their own group; and that it gives children a role in the tradition of culture, and allows them to blend artistic styles and create unique adaptations combining `local' traditions with `external' innovations. Fosterage can thus be established as an important method of peer polity interaction in Iron Age and medieval `Celtic' societies.
Woad, tattooing and identity in Later Iron Age and early Roman Britain
Gillian Carr
273 - 292
The paper explores the archaeological evidence for the practice of facial and corporeal dyeing, painting and tattooing in the Later Iron Age and early Roman period. The aim is to construct a hypothesis which explains how, why, when and by whom such pigments were worn. Although this hypothesis discusses woad-derived indigo, this is used mainly, although not exclusively, as an experimental tool, as no conclusive archaeological evidence exists which reveals the identity of the `real' pigment(s). Woad has also long held a place in the popular imagination as the source of the dye which the ancient Britons used to paint themselves. The paper explores the possibility that the cosmetic grinder was the focal artefact used in body painting or tattooing, and was used for grinding and mixing body and face paint. It is suggested that, rather than being a Roman-style tool for cosmetic application from the start, it may have begun life as an artefact first used by the Later Iron Age Britons for body painting and expressing indigenous identities. Includes
Appendix
288 - 289
table of quotations by Roman authors concerning face and body painting, dyeing or tattooing by ancient Britons
Roman Cirencester and Gloucester compared
Henry Hurst
293 - 305
The author argues that Roman Cirencester and Roman Gloucester have in the past been seen as examples of success and (relative) failure in the urbanization of Roman Britain, but that they seem better understood as expressions of different urban ideas. Cirencester actively remoulded itself as a model Roman city, although there may be allusions to its earlier past in its layout. Gloucester, perhaps deliberately, did not, with the result that its earlier history is expressed physically within the Roman city plan. The two communities may also have presented their collective identities differently. Other aspects of their urban expression are also explored.
Baths or baptisteries?; Holcombe, Lufton and their analogues
Malcolm Todd
307 - 311
Prominent octagonal buildings in the fourth-century villas at Holcombe (Devon) and Lufton (Somerset) have usually been interpreted as bath-suites. The paper questions this view and suggests that they were linked with early Christian ritual, probably baptism. The exceptional character of these structures in the context of bathing is underlined. Their analogues are most evident in early Christian baptisteries of fourth- and fifth-century date in Gaul and Italy, offering support for linkage between Christian communities in late Roman Britain and those in the adjacent western provinces. Other possible sites of baptisteries in Britain are noted.