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Ritual in early Bronze Age grave goods : an examination of ritual and dress equipment from Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age graves in England /
The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the Wessex Culture in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alternative theories have s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY
- The resource and investigative programme
- Site database
- Object identification
- Examination process
- Scientific analysis
- Burial and age criteria
- CHAPTER 3: ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT I: DAGGERS, POMMELS AND BELT FITTINGS
- 3.1: Daggers and knives
- 3.2: Pommels
- 3.3: Belt hooks
- 3.4: Belt and pulley rings
- CHAPTER 4: ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT II: STONE, BONE, COPPER ALLOY AND MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS
- 4.1: Sponge finger stones
- 4.2: Grooved stones
- 4.3: Perforated stones
- 4.4: Worked stones without perforations
- 4.5: Bone and antler spatulae
- 4.6: Copper alloy awls
- 4.7: Bone points
- 4.8: Bone tweezers
- 4.9: Bone tubes
- 4.10: Bone plates
- 4.11: Bone toggles
- 4.12: Miscellaneous objects of bone and antler
- 4.13: Miscellaneous objects of copper alloy
- 4.14: Miscellaneous objects made from jet and jet-like materials
- CHAPTER 5: ITEMS OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT I: JET AND JET-LIKE MATERIALS, AMBER, BONE AND COPPER ALLOY
- 5.1: Tusks and teeth
- 5.2: V-perforated buttons
- 5.3: Button sets of jet and jet-like materials (with Alison Sheridan)
- 5.4: Earrings and tress rings
- 5.5: Dress pins
- 5.6: Studs (with Alison Sheridan)
- 5.7: Beads
- 5.8: Spacer plates
- 5.9: Pendants and individual necklace fasteners
- 5.10: Decorated ornaments of copper alloy
- CHAPTER 6: ITEMS OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT II: GOLD AND THE REGALIA FROM BUSH BARROW
- 6.1: Gold Objects
- 6.1.1 Mere G6a, Wiltshire
- 6.1.2 Wilsford-cum-Lake G47, 49 or 50, Duke's barrow 20, Wiltshire
- 6.1.3 Little Cressingham, Norfolk
- 6.1.4 Upton Lovell G2e, Wiltshire
- 6.1.5 Wilsford G8, Wiltshire
- 6.1.6 Manton barrow, Preshute G1a, Wiltshire.
- 6.1.7 Clandon barrow, Winterborne St Martin G31, Clandon, Dorset
- 6.2: The Regalia from Wilsford G5, Wiltshire (Bush Barrow)
- 6.3: Discussion: Reappraising 'Wessex' Goldwork
- Background
- Early developments
- Sheet-gold covers
- Wessex and the goldwork repertoire of the early second millennium
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 7: NECKLACES I: DISC BEADS AND SPACER PLATE NECKLACES
- 7.1 Disc bead necklaces
- 7.1.1 East Yorkshire
- 7.1.2 Wessex
- 7.1.3 Other regions
- 7.2 Spacer plate necklaces of jet and jet-like materials
- 7.2.1 East Yorkshire
- 7.2.2 Peak District
- 7.2.3 Other regions
- 7.3 Discussion of disc bead and spacer plate necklaces of jet and jet-like materials
- Introduction
- Origins and development of the two traditions
- Contexts and associations
- Raw materials
- Manufacture and the nature of production
- Life histories of the necklaces
- 7.4 Amber necklaces
- 7.4.1 Wessex
- 7.4.2 Other regions
- 7.4.3 General discussion
- Contexts, dating and associations
- Composition variation
- Raw material and manufacture
- Life histories
- CHAPTER 8: NECKLACES II: SIMPLE AND COMPOSITE NECKLACES
- 8.1 Simple necklaces with components of variable shape
- 8.1.1 Jet and jet-like materials
- 8.1.2 Amber
- 8.1.3 Bone
- 8.1.4 Fossil
- 8.1.5 Stone
- 8.2 Composite necklaces with two materials
- 8.2.1 Jet and jet-like disc beads and amber
- 8.2.2 Jet and jet-like beads, buttons and disc beads, and bone
- 8.2.3 Fossil and fired clay disc beads
- 8.2.4 Jet and jet-like materials and amber
- 8.2.5 Jet and jet-like materials and faience
- 8.2.6 Jet and jet-like materials and stone
- 8.2.7 Jet and jet-like materials and bone
- 8.2.8 Amber and bone
- 8.2.9 Bone and fossil
- 8.3 Composite necklaces with three materials
- 8.3.1 Jet and jet-like materials, amber and shell.
- 8.3.2 Gold, amber, and jet and jet-like materials
- 8.3.3 Jet and jet-like materials, amber and faience
- 8.3.4 Amber, faience and stone
- 8.3.5 Red glass, stone and fossil
- 8.3.6 Stone, fossil and bone
- 8.4 Composite necklaces with four materials
- 8.4.1 Gold, jet and jet-like materials, amber and fossil
- 8.4.2 Jet and jet-like materials, faience, stone and shell
- 8.4.3 Jet and jet-like materials, amber, faience and bone
- 8.4.4 Jet and jet-like materials, bone, fossil and shell
- 8.5 Composite necklaces with five materials
- 8.5.1 Gold, jet and jet-like materials, amber, stone and fossil
- 8.5.2 Gold, jet and jet-like materials, bronze, amber and bone
- 8.5.3 Jet and jet-like materials, amber, faience, stone and fossil
- 8.6 Discussion
- Material
- Morphology
- Recycling and heirlooms
- Dating and associations
- Analysis.
- CHAPTER 9: CHRONOLOGY
- Introduction
- Chronological divisions
- Chalcolithic grave goods
- Early Bronze Age grave goods
- Grave goods found in both the Beaker and Early Bronze Age periods
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 10: OBJECT LIFE STORIES
- Introduction
- Variation in condition between similar objects
- Variation in condition within an assemblage
- Objects in child or adolescent burials
- Fragmented objects
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER 11: OBJECT FUNCTION
- Morphology, material and manufacture
- Use wear
- Placement of objects with the body
- Age and sex
- Associations
- CHAPTER 12: REGIONAL VARIATION
- Introduction
- Graves and bodies
- Object distributions
- Conclusions
- Appendix 12.1
- CHAPTER 13: CONCLUSIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.