Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC : Proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2006
by Davis, Oliver; Sharples, Niall; Waddington, KateFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-08-30
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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Summary
These fifteen papers came out of the eighth annual meeting of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar (IARSS) and are loosely grouped into three topics: settlement studies, deposition and material culture, and experimental archaeology. Most of the studies are re-examinings of well known data sets, such as hillforts, small enclosures and bone assemblages, both human and animal. They are mainly focused on the British Iron Age - one of the most heterogeneous and regionally distinctive periods in British prehistory. Material culture is highly variable, as are settlement patterns, and even chronology is of an entirely local character, being reliant on typological sequences from each region's specific archaeological record. The book ends with the recounting of a trip to the Iron Age village at St. Fagan's, Cardiff - a practical foray into the Iron Age day-to-day.
Table of Contents
| New perspectives in later prehistory | p. 1 |
| Settlement studies | |
| Black earth, bone and bits of old pot: the Pewsey middens. Recent work by the University of Sheffield | p. 11 |
| The pairing of hillforts: conflict, complementary, coincidence or complex? | p. 21 |
| Twin freaks? Paired enclosures in the Early Iron Age of Wessex | p. 31 |
| Exploring 'everyday' places in the Iron Age landscapes of the Outer Hebrides | p. 43 |
| Enclosure boundaries and settlement individuality in the Iron Age | p. 61 |
| Deposition and material culture | |
| Associated bone groups; one archaeologist's rubbish is another's ritual deposition | p. 83 |
| Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in the Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate | p. 99 |
| Bodies of difference in Iron Age southern England | p. 119 |
| A bioarchaeological analysis of violence in Iron Age females: a perspective from Dorset, England (fourth century BC to the first century AD) | p. 139 |
| Topographies of accumulation at Late Bronze Age Potterne | p. 161 |
| Reclaiming the Early Iron Age in eastern England | p. 185 |
| The Channel Islands: an archipelago of the Atlantic Later Bronze Age | p. 199 |
| Some exotic evidence amidst Irish late prehistorical burials | p. 215 |
| Experimental archaeology | |
| A Celtic Village? Practice and changing interpretations at an Iron Age village reconstruction | p. 235 |
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