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In 1864, a large metal hoard of copper, bronze and silver objects was discovered at Pile in the southern Swedish region of Scania. The hoard has been dated to the onset of the rich Nordic Bronze Age, and emerges as the earliest, finest and one of the largest of the Nordic sacrificial deposits of metalwork in or near water. The metal hoard from Pile in Scania, Sweden' provides the first detailed documentation, Scientific examination and historical interpretation of the assemblage. Around 2000 BCE the site of Pile was networked with places near and far in a manner that boosted the political economy of Southern Scandinavia, adding to an atmosphere of tensions and charge - and it made history. The chapters unfold as a 'history from beneath' beginning with place, Things and time and concluding with metals and the worlds that intersected in Pile at the threshold of the long Bronze Age.
Hoards, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Bronze age --- Metal-work, Prehistoric --- Skåne (Sweden) --- Sweden --- Antiquities.
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More than quarter of a century ago Richard Bradley published The Passage of Arms. It was conceived as An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits, but, as the author concedes, these terms were too narrrowly focused for the complex subject of deliberate deposition and the period covered too short. A Geography of Offerings has been written to provoke a reaction from archaeologists and has two main aims. The first is to move this kind of archaeology away from the minute study of ancient objects to a more ambitious analysis of ancient places and landscapes. The second is to recognise that problems of interpretation are not restricted to the pre-Roman period. Mesolithic finds have a place in this discussion, and so do those of the 1st millennium AD. Archaeologists studying individual periods confront with similar problems and the same debates are repeated within separate groups of scholars ? but they arrive at different conclusions. Here, the author presents a review that brings these discussions together and extends across the entire sequence. Rather than offer a comprehensive survey, this is an extended essay about the strengths and weaknesses of current thinking regarding specialised deposits, which encompass both sacrificial deposits characterised by large quantities of animal and human bones and other collections which are dominated by finds of stone or metal artefacts. It considers current approaches and theory, the histories of individual artefacts and the landscape and physical context of the of places where they were deposited, the character of materials, the importance of animism and the character of ancient cosmologies
Antiquities. --- Archaeological assemblages. --- Archaeology --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Hoards, Prehistoric. --- Landscape archaeology. --- Hoards, Prehistoric --- Landscape archaeology --- Archaeological assemblages --- Archéologie du paysage --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Archéologie --- Methodology. --- Méthodologie --- Europe. --- Europe --- Antiquités --- Archéologie du paysage --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Archéologie --- Méthodologie --- Antiquités --- Assemblages archéologiques --- History --- E-books --- History.
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Bronze age --- Bronze implements --- Metal-work, Prehistoric --- Hoards, Prehistoric --- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric land settlement patterns --- Prehistoric hoards --- Metallurgy, Prehistoric --- Paleometallurgy --- Prehistoric metal-work --- Prehistoric metallurgy --- Bronzes --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- Civilization --- Netherlands --- Antiquities.
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This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well as the creation of complex abandonment layers for example in wells or the destruction of immense material wealth in enclosure ditches.0This is the kind of behaviour that archaeologists generally interpret as ritual (often using the label "structured deposition"), but it is surprisingly little discussed for the Linearbandkeramik. This volume thus addresses two main goals. First, it contributes a new approach to the study of Linearbandkeramik world view by focusing on depositional practices more generally and addressing the connections between them. How do the more striking or unusual examples of deposition articulate with routine discard, and what does this tell us about how Linearbandkeramik societies saw these objects and their use? Second, given the wealth of data available for the Linearbandkeramik, there is an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding the variety of depositional phenomena across the European Neolithic and their theoretical and methodological implications.0This book thus combines chapters dealing with routine discard, as well as those concerned with burial evidence, formalised deposition of objects and feasting debris.
Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- History --- Antiquities. --- Archaeological assemblages --- Archaeological assemblages. --- Bandkeramik culture --- Bandkeramik culture. --- Hoards, Prehistoric --- Hoards, Prehistoric. --- Ritual --- Ritual. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Antiquities --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- History.
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