Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine
Author: The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author: Edward Hungerford GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author: Edward Hungerford GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author: THE WILTSHIRE Archeological and Natural History MAGAZINE,
Author: The Avebury Landscape
Author: Graham BrownPublisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
It is over one hundred years since the publication of the wide ranging archaeological field investigation undertaken on the Marlborough Downs by the Rev A C Smith. His work Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs in a Hundred Square Miles round Abury was originally published in two volumes in 1884 by the Marlborough College Natural History Society, then reprinted and bound into a single volume and published in 1885 by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society after half the original print run was destroyed in a fire. As in most works of inventory the volume has certainly stood the test of time and is still one of the basic reference texts for students of the area. Since then, apart from a few notable exceptions, archaeological literature about the area has been largely site-based and there has been little concerning the Marlborough Downs as a whole. In order to try and redress this imbalance, a day conference was organised in April 2002 at the University of Bath, Swindon, where it was possible to acknowledge and mark the ongoing validity of Smith's work and where a number of papers on various aspects of recent research on the Marlborough Downs were presented. The results of the conference are presented in this volume, together with a number of other commissioned contributions from individuals who have undertaken research in the area during the last decade or so. Each essay stands alone, but they are connected by a common theme, that of the land and how it has changed over millennia.
Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods
Author: John HunterPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782976973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ‘Wessex Culture’ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alternative theories have sought to explain the how display of such objects was related to religious and ritual activity rather than to economic status, and that groups of artefacts found in certain graves may have belonged to religious specialists. This volume is the result of a major research that aimed to investigate Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age grave goods in relation to their possible use as special dress accessories or as equipment employed within ritual activities and ceremonies. Many items of adornment can be shown to have formed elements of elaborate costumes, probably worn by individuals, both male and female, who held important ritual roles within society. Furthermore, the analysis has shown that various categories of object long interpreted as mundane types of tool were in fact items of bodily adornment or implements used in ritual contexts, or in the special embellishment of the human body. Although never intended to form a complete catalogue of all the relevant artefacts from England the volume provides an extensive, and intensively illustrated, overview of a large proportion of the grave goods from English burial sites.
The Romano-British Villa at Castle Copse, Great Bedwyn
Author: E. P. AllisonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253328021
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
These efforts have shed light not only on the history of the villa itself, but also on the shifting focus of power over the course of a millennium at the sites associated with Castle Copse in the immediate region - the Iron Age hillfort of Chisbury, a post-Roman settlement, and a Saxon village destined to become an urban center.
Models in Archaeology
Author: David L. ClarkePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317606175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their fields of study. The twenty-six original contributions represent the carefully selected work of progressive archaeologists around the world, covering the use of models on archaeological material of all kinds and from all periods from Palaeolithic to Medieval. Their common theme is archaeological generalisation by means of explicit model building, testing, modification and reapplication. The contributors seek to show that it is the use of certain models in particular ways that defines archaeology as the practice of one discipline, with a set of general tenets that are as applicable in Peru as in Persia, Australia as Alaska, Sweden as Scotland, on material from the second millennium B.C. to the second millennium A.D. They assert that careful model formulation within archaeology and the cautious exchange and testing of models within and beyond the discipline provides the only route to the formation of the common, internationally valid body of theory which defines a vigorous and coherent discipline and distinguishes it from being a collection of merely regionally applicable special cases.