Preserved in the peat : an extraordinary Bronze Age burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its wider context /

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"Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a baske...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Andy M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
Temas:
To 1500
Bronze age > England > Dartmoor.
Prehistoric peoples > England > Dartmoor.
Burial > England > Dartmoor > History > To 1500.
Grave goods > England > Dartmoor > History > To 1500.
Material culture > England > Dartmoor > History > To 1500.
Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Dartmoor.
Peat > England > Dartmoor.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Angleterre > Dartmoor.
Tourbe > Angleterre > Dartmoor.
Antiquities
Bronze age
Burial
Excavations (Archaeology)
Grave goods
Material culture
Peat
Prehistoric peoples
Bronzezeit
Funde
Grab
Whitehorse Hill (Devon, England)
Dartmoor (England) > Antiquities.
England > Whitehorse Hill (Devon)
England > Dartmoor
Dartmoor
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Background
  • 1. Introduction / Andy M. Jones
  • Section 2 Deconstructing and reconstructing the cist
  • 2. Results from the 2011 fieldwork / Andy M. Jones
  • 3. The micro-excavation and conservation of the artefacts / Helen Williams
  • 4. The wooden stakes from the Whitehorse Hill cist / Richard Brunning
  • 5. The samples of peat and possible soil from the cist at Whitehorse Hill / Matt Canti
  • Section 3 Assembling the burial
  • 6. The human remains / Simon Mays
  • 7. The wood charcoal / Zoe Hazell
  • 8. The charred textiles from the cremation deposit / Susanna Harris
  • 9. The matted plant material from the base of the cist / Julie Jones
  • 10. The pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from the cist samples / Marta Perez
  • Section 4 Items with the young adult
  • 11. The animal pelt / Quita Mould
  • 12. The copper-alloy pin / Henrietta Quinnell
  • 13. The basketry container / Ruth Stungo
  • 14. The composite braided hair armband or bracelet / Helen Williams
  • 15. The composite necklace / Helen Williams
  • 16. The wooden studs / Henrietta Quinnell
  • 17. The flint / Anna Lawson-Jones
  • 18. The textile and animal-skin object / Quita Mould
  • Section 5 The cist and the moor: the environmental setting of the site and its wider landscape context
  • 19. The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cist / Sarah Littlewood
  • Section 6 The radiocarbon dating
  • 20. Interpreting the chronology of the cist / Paula Reimer
  • Section 7 Discussion, interpretation and conclusions
  • 21. The results from the project / Andy M. Jones.

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