Middle Bronze Age societies and barrow line chronology. A case study from the Bukivna ‘necropolis’, Upper Dniester Basin, Ukraine

2018 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 40-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Makarowicz ◽  
Tomasz Goslar ◽  
Jakub Niebieszczański ◽  
Mateusz Cwaliński ◽  
Igor T. Kochkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

scholarly journals How Rocks Die: Changing Patterns of Discard and Re-Use of Ground Stone Tools in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8869
Author(s):  
Andrew McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

Cultural objects are thought to have a lifespan. From selection, through construction, use, destruction, and discard, materials do not normally last forever, transforming through stages of life, eventually leading to their death. The materiality of stone objects, however, can defy the inevitable demise of an object, especially durable ground stone tools that can outlive generations of human lifespans. How groups of people deal with the relative permanence of stone tools depends on their own relationship with the past, and whether they venerate it or reject its influence on the present. A case study from the long-lived site of Prasteio-Mesorotsos in Cyprus demonstrates a shifting attitude toward ground stone objects, from the socially conservative habit of ritually killing of objects and burying them, to one of more casual re-use and reinterpretation of ground stone. This shift in attitude coincides with a socio-political change that eventually led to the ultimate rejection of the past: complete abandonment of the settlement.

Settlement, space organization and land-use of a small Middle Bronze Age community of central Italy. The case study of Gorgo del Ciliegio (Arezzo-Tuscany)

2020 ◽  
Vol 539 ◽  
pp. 122-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Moroni ◽  
Vincenzo Spagnolo ◽  
Jacopo Crezzini ◽  
Francesco Boschin ◽  
Marco Benvenuti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Space Organization ◽  
Middle Bronze Age

scholarly journals The Role of Sun Symbols in the Burial Rite of the Middle Bronze Age Vatya Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Emília Pásztor
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Concise Review ◽  
Burial Customs ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Rite

The case study investigates the burial customs of the Middle Bronze Age Vatya culture in the Carpathian Basin. It aims to deliver a comparative analysis of the archaeological finds and characteristics of several cemeteries where communities cremated and buried their dead in urns. It also examines the ways grave artefacts are placed, and the shape and ornamentation of ceramics. It also gives a concise review on beliefs related to cremation. The case study aims at presenting just how much information the seemingly monotone burial customs of the Vatya culture can offer on their belief system by analysing the shapes, arrangements and ornamentations of buried artefacts.The decoration of grave ceramics often includes solar – light symbols, therefore, the author argues that the regular use of light symbols has a significant role in their belief system, especially in the deceased’s journey to the Otherworld.

Middle Bronze Age Enclosures in the Norfolk Broads: a Case Study at Ormesby St Michael, England

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Gilmour ◽  
Sarah Horlock ◽  
Richard Mortimer ◽  
Sophie Tremlett
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Norfolk Broads ◽  
Field Systems ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

Remnant field systems and enclosures are key indicators of social change during the 2nd millennium bc – their study has considerable significance in terms of interpreting the Bronze Age in the eastern region. Despite widespread current interest in the topic, little if any evidence for Middle Bronze Age settlement and land division had been found in Norfolk prior to the investigations at Ormesby St Michael which form the focus of this paper. Here, archaeological excavations uncovered evidence for strip field systems, succeeded by a large and well dated enclosure containing at least two structures. These results are supplemented by cropmark evidence for other elements of the enclosure produced by the National Mapping Programme. When combined, the findings are of great significance since they indicate a Middle Bronze Age date for numerous comparable cropmarks recorded across the region as part of the National Mapping Programme, emphasising the crucial value of such work. It can now be suggested that the apparent dearth of Bronze Age field systems in Norfolk is not 'real', but the combined effect of limited excavation of such sites and misinterpretation of those that have been investigated.

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