Libraries of the Dead: Early Bronze Age Charnel Houses and Social Identity at Urban Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith S. Chesson
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The Dead

scholarly journals Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age southern Caucasus

Paléorient ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 151-174
Author(s):  
Estelle Herrscher ◽  
Modwene Poulmarc’h ◽  
Giulio Palumbi ◽  
Sarit Paz ◽  
Elena Rova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
Southern Caucasus

The living and the dead in northern Scotland 3500–2000 BC

Antiquity ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (286) ◽  
pp. 786-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Phillips ◽  
Aaron Watson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The Dead

A fieldwalking project focused on the Neolithic/Early Bronze Age of northern Scotland investigates different regional traditions and changing relationships with ancestors.

Pathways for the Dead in the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Ireland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Entire Population ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Physical Treatment ◽  
Mortuary Practice ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Population Treatment ◽  
Over Time

Because of its diversity and visibility the mortuary record of the Early Bronze Age (2400–1500 cal. BC) has long dominated interpretation of that period in Ireland (e.g. Cooney and Grogan 1994; Waddell 1998; Brindley 2007) and burials from Bronze Age cemeteries represent over 70 per cent of the burial record from Irish prehistory (Murphy et al. 2010). The explosion of development-funded excavation in the period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s provided a settlement balance to that picture and also evidence for additional cemeteries (e.g. Grogan et al. 2007; McQuade et al. 2009). This suggests that Early Bronze Age cemeteries served as local foci for communities. From the evidence of the numbers interred over a number of generations the dead buried in the cemeteries represent what Mary Helms (1998) has usefully called the ‘distinguished dead’ from communities, not the entire population. Treatment of the dead within the cemeteries is complex and there are clear indications of change over time. Interpretative models had associated inhumation with males and a broader shift over time from inhumation to cremation relying on a view of cremation and inhumation as opposed, separate mortuary rites (e.g. Mount 1997). However, the evidence indicates a much more complex set of pathways in the postmortem treatment of the dead in which cremation and inhumation were employed as complementary mortuary rites with an increasing focus on cremation over time (e.g. Cahill and Sikora 2011). This new picture has important implications for the increasing significance of the the pyre and the transformation of the dead (Mizoguchi 1993: 232). In looking at the period after 1500 cal. BC we see continuity in aspects of mortuary practice and use of sites, but in other ways mortuary practice changed dramatically. Cremation is now the dominant mortuary rite. Burial in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (down to 600 cal. BC) has been widely discussed as less visible, and hence much less important as an aspect of social behaviour (e.g. Cooney and Grogan 1994: 144). But it is more useful to think in terms of shifting emphases in mortuary practice. In a recent discussion Lynch and O’Donnell (2007: 107) have described this period as being characterized by ‘an incredibly intricate and variable physical treatment of the dead’.

scholarly journals The early Bronze Age feature from Wilczyce, site 10, Sandomierz district – An interpretation of its functioning in light of multidimensional analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 77-102
Author(s):  
Paweł Jarosz ◽  
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Tomasz Boroń ◽  
Barbara Witkowska ◽  
Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Human Skull ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
The Dead

The aim of this paper is to present the multidimensional characteristics of the feature number 4 at the site in Wilczyce located on the Sandomierz Upland. During exploration of the pit rich flint material, fragments of pottery vessels and animal bones were found and just above the bottom a “deposit” involved a human skull of the young female, two cattle mandibles, a sheep/goat tibia and astragalus, a damaged cattle scapula and radius, and a polishing stone were deposited. The C14 date obtained from the tooth from the cattle jaw was 3790 ± 35 BP. Based on the shape and the size of discovered feature it is possible to classify it as a typical storage pit but presence of “deposit” enable to postulate a ritual character of assemblage that reflect some kind of burial practices of the Mierzanowice culture. Rituals in the form of interring the dead or parts of their bodies can be found also in the Unietice culture so such features may indicate the emergence of a certain supra- -regional and cross-cultural trend in the early Bronze Age.

scholarly journals Igranie z ogniem – rytuały pogrzebowe kultury strzyżowskiej na przykładzie wybranych pochowków z cmentarzyska w Rogalinie

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
Anna Hyrchała
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Supine Position ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
Burial Rites ◽  
The Dead

The text presents newly discovered graves of Strzyżów culture from the Early Bronze Age, located at a cemetery in Rogalin, Poland. The funeral rites of Strzyżów culture are multifaceted. Most of the dead were placed in graves in supine position, equipped with vessels, tools, and ornaments – and then buried. This text, however, discusses burial rites involving the use of fire both in open burial pits and after burial, as well as subsequent practices of opening and disturbing graves. Analysis was supplemented by results of radiocarbon dating.

Blades for the gods, blades for the dead: a Bronze Age rapier from Swaites Hill, South Lanarkshire

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Louise Turner
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
The Dead

The excavation in 2015 of a hilltop Bronze Age funerary cairn in South Lanarkshire resulted in the discovery of a Bronze Age rapier, found amongst displaced cairn material ( Gordon and McKinstry 2019 ). This paper discusses the wider context of the find, focussing on the differing strategies employed in rapier deposition, in contrast with those evident amongst finds of later Early Bronze Age daggers. It concludes with the observation that our assumptions regarding the deposition of Early and Middle Bronze Age daggers and rapiers cannot go unquestioned and that the strategies which underpin their deposition may be more complex than can sometimes be assumed.

Dating the Dead: a High-Resolution Radiocarbon Chronology of Burial Within an Early Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery at Over, Cambridgeshire

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 207-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Garrow ◽  
John Meadows ◽  
Christopher Evans ◽  
Jonathan Tabor
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Bayesian Modelling ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Burial Practice ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology ◽  
A Site

This paper outlines the results of a programme of radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling relating to an Early Bronze Age barrow cemetery at Over, Cambridgeshire. In total, 43 dates were obtained, enabling the first high-resolution independent chronology (relating to both burial and architectural events) to be constructed for a site of this kind. The results suggest that the three main turf-mound barrows were probably constructed and used successively rather than simultaneously, that the shift from inhumation to cremation seen on the site was not a straightforward progression, and that the four main ‘types’ of cremation burial in evidence were used throughout the life of the site. Overall, variability in terms of burial practice appears to have been a key feature of the site. The paper also considers the light that the fine-grained chronology developed can shed on recent much wider discussions of memory and time within Early Bronze Age barrows

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