Iron Age Echoes

Author : David R. Fontijn,Quentin Bourgeois,Arjen Louwen
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789088900730

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Iron Age Echoes by David R. Fontijn,Quentin Bourgeois,Arjen Louwen Pdf

Groups of burial mounds may be among the most tangible and visible remains of Europe's prehistoric past. Yet, not much is known on how "barrow landscapes" came into being . This book deals with that topic, by presenting the results of archaeological research carried out on a group of just two barrows that crown a small hilltop near the Echoput ("echo-well") in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. In 2007, archaeologists of the Ancestral Mounds project of Leiden University carried out an excavation of parts of these mounds and their immediate environment. They discovered that these mounds are rare examples of monumental barrows from the later part of the Iron Age. They were probably built at the same time, and their similarities are so conspicuous that one might speak of "twin barrows". The research team was able to reconstruct the long-term history of this hilltop. We can follow how the hilltop that is now deep in the forests of the natural reserve of the Kroondomein Het Loo, once was an open place in the landscape. With pragmatism not unlike our own, we see how our prehistoric predecessors carefully managed and maintained the open area for a long time, before it was transformed into a funerary site. The excavation yielded many details on how people built the barrows by cutting and arranging heather sods, and how the mounds were used for burial rituals in the Iron Age.

Author : David R. Fontijn,Arjen Lowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929798089

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Iron Age Echoes by David R. Fontijn,Arjen Lowen Pdf

Author : Bruce Routledge
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 081223801X

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Moab in the Iron Age by Bruce Routledge Pdf

Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology uses Moab as the centerpiece of an extended reflection on the nature and meaning of state formation.

Author : Nasser S. Al-Jahwari,Paul A. Yule,Khaled A. Douglas,Bernhard Pracejus,Mohammed Ali K. Al-Belushi,Ali Tigani ElMahi
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803270838

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The Early Iron Age Metal Hoard from the Al Khawd Area (Sultan Qaboos University), Sultanate of Oman by Nasser S. Al-Jahwari,Paul A. Yule,Khaled A. Douglas,Bernhard Pracejus,Mohammed Ali K. Al-Belushi,Ali Tigani ElMahi Pdf

Numerous metallic artefacts, deposited in a hoard in ancient times, came to light by chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Khawd, Sultanate of Oman. Mostly fashioned from copper, these objects compare well with numerous documented artefact classes from south-eastern Arabia assigned to the Early Iron Age (1200–300 BCE).

Author : Ian Mathieson Stead,Janet Lang
Publisher : British Museum Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015064737896

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British Iron Age Swords and Scabbards by Ian Mathieson Stead,Janet Lang Pdf

British Iron Age swords and scabbards are here catalogued in detail for the first time. They are grouped on the basis of typologies of components and are discussed with special reference to their decoration, context and chronology. Artefact studies have been neglected for many years, and this subject was last tackled in a paper published in 1950. Since then, the material available for study has tripled, from 93 to 274 items, and new archaeological discoveries include several elaborately decorated scabbards. Illustrations include 71 full pages of line drawings, while additional contributions examine the technology of some of the swords and provide a discussion of their enamelled decoration. Contents: Introduction; Typology and terminology; Group A: Swords of medium length and scabbards with open chape ends; Group B: Swords of medium length and scabbards with closed chape ends; Group C: Long swords and scabbards with campanulate mouths; Group D: Long swords and scabbards with straight mouths; Group E: Earlier swords and scabbards in the north; Group F: Later swords and scabbards in the north; Group G: Short swords in the south and the north; Group H: Swords and scabbards of mixed traditions; Discussion; Appendices; The technology of some of the swords; Weapons and fittings with enamelled decoration; The Isleworth sword: a note on the brass foils; A technical report on the Orton Meadows scabbard; The scientific examination of the Asby Scar sword and scabbard; The extraction of swords from their scabbards; Catalogue; Bibliography.

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134277247

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Iron Age Communities in Britain by Barry Cunliffe Pdf

This fully revised fourth edition maintains the qualities of the earlier editions whilst taking into account the significant developments that have moulded the discipline in recent years.

Author : D.W. Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317602859

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The Iron Age in Lowland Britain by D.W. Harding Pdf

This book was written at a time when the older conventional diffusionist view of prehistory, largely associated with the work of V. Gordon Childe, was under rigorous scrutiny from British prehistorians, who still nevertheless regarded the ‘Arras’ culture of eastern Yorkshire and the ‘Belgic’ cemeteries of south-eastern Britain as the product of immigrants from continental Europe. Sympathetic to the idea of population mobility as one mechanism for cultural innovation, as widely recognized historically, it nevertheless attempted a critical re-appraisal of the southern British Iron Age in its continental context. Subsequent fashion in later prehistoric studies has favoured economic, social and cognitive approaches, and the cultural-historical framework has largely been superseded. Routine use of radiocarbon dating and other science-based applications, and new field data resulting from developer-led archaeology have revolutionized understanding of the British Iron Age, and once again raised issues of its relationship to continental Europe.

Author : Marian H. Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226164427

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Communities of Style by Marian H. Feldman Pdf

Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200–600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how societies in flux came together around the material effects of art and style, and their role in collective memory. Marian H. Feldman brings her dual training as an art historian and an archaeologist to bear on the networks that were essential to the movement and trade of luxury goods—particularly ivories and metal works—and how they were also central to community formation. The interest in, and relationships to, these art objects, Feldman shows, led to wide-ranging interactions and transformations both within and between communities. Ultimately, she argues, the production and movement of luxury goods in the period demands a rethinking of our very geo-cultural conception of the Levant, as well as its influence beyond what have traditionally been thought of as its borders.

Author : Marieke Doorenbosch
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789088901928

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Ancestral Heaths by Marieke Doorenbosch Pdf

Barrows, i.e. burial mounds, are amongst the most important of Europe’s prehistoric monuments. Across the continent, barrows still figure as prominent elements in the landscape. Many of these mounds have been excavated, revealing much about what was buried inside these intriguing monuments. Surprisingly, little is known about the landscape in which the barrows were situated and what role they played in their environment. Palynological data, carrying important clues on the barrow environment, are available for hundreds of excavated mounds in the Netherlands. However, while local vegetation reconstructions from these barrows exist, a reconstruction of the broader landscape around the barrows has yet to be made. This makes it difficult to understand their role in the prehistoric cultural landscape. In this book a detailed vegetation history of the landscape around burial mounds is presented. Newly obtained and extant data derived from palynological analyses taken from barrow sites are (re-)analysed. Methods in barrow palynology are discussed and further developed when necessary. Newly developed techniques are applied in order to get a better impression of the role barrows played in their environment. It is argued in this book that barrows were built on existing heaths, which had been and continued to be maintained for many generations by so-called heath communities. These heaths, therefore, can be considered as ‘ancestral heaths’. The barrow landscape was part of the economic zone of farming communities, while the heath areas were used as grazing grounds. The ancestral heaths were very stable elements in the landscape and were kept in existence for thousands of years. In fact, it is argued that these ancestral heaths were the most important factor in structuring the barrow landscape.

Author : John Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134687619

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Fragmentation in Archaeology by John Chapman Pdf

Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition, lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation within a broad anthropological context.

Author : David R. Fontijn,Arjan Louwen,Sasja van der Vaart,Karsten Wentink
Publisher : Sidestone Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9789088901089

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Beyond Barrows by David R. Fontijn,Arjan Louwen,Sasja van der Vaart,Karsten Wentink Pdf

Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session. The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of "ritual landscapes". The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory. This publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University of Leiden.

Author : Lotte Hedeager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136817267

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Iron Age Myth and Materiality by Lotte Hedeager Pdf

Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the documentation of an oral past relates to its material embodiment. While the material evidence is from the Iron Age, most Old Norse texts were written down in the thirteenth century or even later. With a time lag of 300 to 900 years from the archaeological evidence, the textual material has until recently been ruled out as a usable source for any study of the pagan past. However, Hedeager argues that this is true regarding any study of a society’s short-term history, but it should not be the crucial requirement for defining the sources relevant for studying long-term structures of the longue durée, or their potential contributions to a theoretical understanding of cultural changes and transformation. In Iron Age Scandinavia we are dealing with persistent and slow-changing structures of worldviews and ideologies over a wavelength of nearly a millennium. Furthermore, iconography can often date the arrival of new mythical themes anchoring written narratives in a much older archaeological context. Old Norse myths are explored with particular attention to one of the central mythical narratives of the Old Norse canon, the mythic cycle of Odin, king of the Norse pantheon. In addition, contemporaneous historical sources from late Antiquity and the early European Middle Age - the narratives of Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, and Paul the Deacon in particular - will be explored. No other study provides such a broad ranging and authoritative study of the relationship of myth to the archaeology of Scandinavia.

Author : Lotte Hedeager
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0631171061

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Iron-age Societies by Lotte Hedeager Pdf

Skandinavien - Eisenzeit - Sozialgeschichte/Alltag - Religionsgeschichte.

Author : Andy M. Jones,Michael J. Allen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259247

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The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape by Andy M. Jones,Michael J. Allen Pdf

Between 2018 and 2019, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook two projects at Mount’s Bay, Penwith. The first involved the excavation of a Bronze Age barrow and the second, environmental augur core sampling in Marazion Marsh. Both sites lie within an area of coastal hinterland, which has been subject to incursions by rising sea levels. Since the Mesolithic, an area of approximately 1 kilometer in extent between the current shoreline and St Michael’s Mount has been lost to gradually rising sea levels. With current climate change, this process is likely to occur at an increasing rate. Given their proximity, the opportunity was taken to draw the results from the two projects together along with all available existing environmental data from the area. For the first time, the results from all previous palaeoenvironmental projects in the Mount’s Bay area have been brought together. Evidence for coastal change and sea level rise is discussed and a model for the drowning landscape presented. In addition to modeling the loss of land and describing the environment over time, social responses including the wider context of the Bronze Age barrow and later Bronze Age metalwork deposition in the Mount’s Bay environs are considered. The effects of the gradual loss of land are discussed in terms of how change is perceived, its effects on community resilience, and the construction of social memory and narratives of place. The volume presents the potential for nationally significant environmental data to survive, which demonstrates the long-term effects of climate change and rising sea levels, and peoples’ responses to these over time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Hardware
ISBN : UOM:39015082627038

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Iron Age and Hardware, Iron and Industrial Reporter by Anonim Pdf