Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities: Petersfield Heath Excavations 2014-18 in their Regional Context

Needham, Stuart; Anelay, George

ISBN 10: 9464260440 / ISBN 13: 9789464260441

Verlag: Sidestone Press, 2022

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Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities argues exactly that. Round barrows do not just represent the death side of Early Bronze Age communities placed in set-a-side ritual landscapes, but were instead central to existence in many ways. This study of the Rother Region, where the Weald meets the Wessex massif, reports the results of the People of the Heath project, 2014-18. It integrates a wealth of data from comprehensive field study of all relevant sites in the region with that from excavations into one of its major cemeteries - Petersfield Heath, Hampshire. Fourteen of 21 surviving barrows were sampled by excavation, one of the fullest records for such a cemetery in modern times. In addition to diverse burial rites, the site yielded a range of 'other significant deposits' and totally novel insights into the organic artefact repertoire thanks to mineral replacement. There are substantial repercussions for the conventional classification of barrows and in this region the key difference between mound barrows and enclosure barrows is seen to have a socio-cultural background. This and other differences of approach to the siting and aggregation of barrows contribute to the reconstruction of 16 settled communities across the region. These emerge from a strong Mesolithic to Neolithic presence, the latter documented for the first time, and evidence including solstitial alignments suggests direct continuity to the Middle Bronze Age fieldscapes of the region. This book is supported by a separate volume containing an extensive body of supplementary information and evaluation. Together they contain much new for those researching the period, early burial practices and the prehistoric occupation of the western Weald. They will also galvanise debates about variations in the character of barrowscapes across Britain and the place of the Wessex barrow foci. In addition to this main volume, there is also a second volume with: Supplementary Material In addition to the two printed volumes, an online dataset comprising spreadsheets is available at www.peopleoftheheath.com/publications/ Contents Forword (by Richard Bradley) Acknowledgements Section¿1: The History and Archaeology of Petersfield Heath Chapter 1: People of the Heath Project Chapter 2: The Archaeology of Petersfield Heath: the State of Knowledge Chapter 3: The Heath in Documented History Section¿2: Petersfield Heath Excavations Chapter 4: In Situ Mesolithic Sites Chapter 5: Early Bronze Age Enclosure Barrows Chapter 6: Early Bronze Age Mound Barrows Chapter 7: Modern and Natural Sites Section¿3: Burials and Other Significant Deposits Chapter 8: Burials in Graves and Coffins Chapter 9: Urn Burials (by Jane King and Stuart Needham) Chapter 10: Other Significant Deposits Section¿4: Excavated Finds, Environmental Evidence and Dating Chapter 11: Bone Studies Chapter 12: Prehistoric Flintwork and a Review of the Regional Mesolithic Chapter 13: Artefact Studies Chapter 14: Environmental Studies Chapter 15: Specialist Dating Evidence and Site Phasing (by Stuart Needham, Peter Marshall and George Anelay) Section¿5: Barrows in the Rother Region Chapter 16: The Regional Barrow Survey Chapter 17: Barrows in the Landscape: Density, Topographic Settings, Formations and Alignments (by Stuart Needham and Sabine Stevenson) Chapter 18: Patterns of Destruction and Survival in the Barrowscape (by Stuart Needham and Sabine Stevenson) Section¿6: Synthesis Chapter 19: Bronze Age Funerary Deposits and Structures in the Rother Region Chapter 20: Neolithic and Bronze Age Occupation of the Rother Region (by Stuart Needham and Sabine Stevenson) Chapter 21: Identifying Early Bronze Age Communities Chapter 22: Petersfield Heath, Enclosure Barrows and Cultural Differentiation References

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dr Stuart Needham, formerly curator of the European Bronze Age at The British Museum, is now an independent researcher and Honorary Research Fellow of Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales. Amongst his recent publications are Encompassing the sea: 'Maritories' and Bronze Age maritime interactions (in Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe, Oxbow), Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay and other marine finds of the Bronze Age (Council for British Archaeology, Research Report 173), The lost cultures of the halberd-bearers (in Celtic from the West 3, Oxbow).

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Titel: Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age ...
Verlag: Sidestone Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Poor