Preserved in the Peat

Preserved in the Peat

An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context

Jones, Andy M

Oxbow Books

08/2022

304

Mole

Inglês

9781789258783

15 a 20 dias

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Section 1: Background

Chapter 1: Introduction





Andy M Jones







Section 2: Deconstructing and reconstructing the cist

Chapter 2: Results from the 2011 fieldwork





Andy M Jones





Chapter 3: The micro-excavation and conservation of the artefacts





Helen Williams





Chapter 4: The wooden stakes from the Whitehorse Hill cist





Richard Brunning





Chapter 5: The samples of peat and possible soil from the cist at Whitehorse Hill





M.G. Canti







Section 3: Assembling the burial

Chapter 6: The human remains





Simon Mays





Chapter 7: The wood charcoal





Zoe Hazell





Chapter 8: The charred textiles from the cremation deposit





Susanna Harris





Chapter 9: The matted plant material from the base of the cist





Julie Jones





Chapter 10: The pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from the cist samples





Ralph Fyfe and Marta Perez







Section 4: Items with the young adult

Chapter 11: The animal pelt





Esther Cameron and Quita Mould





Chapter 12: The copper-alloy pin





Alison Sheridan, Esther Cameron and Henrietta Quinnell





Chapter 13: The basketry container





Caroline Cartwright, Maggie Cooper, Sherry Doyal, Dinah Eastop, Linda Lemieux and Ruth Stungo





Chapter 14: The composite braided hair armband or bracelet





Alison Sheridan, Esther Cameron, Caroline Cartwright, Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Susanna Harris, Linda Hurcombe, Jamie Inglis, Quita Mould, Caroline Solazzo and Helen Williams





Chapter 15: The composite necklace





Alison Sheridan, with contributions by Mary Davis, Joanna Dunster, Jamie Inglis, Henrietta Quinnell, Hal Redvers-Jones, Roger Taylor, Kate Verkooijen, Helen Williams and Lore Troalen





Chapter 16: The wooden studs





Alison Sheridan, Richard Brunning, Vanessa Straker, Gill Campbell, Caroline Cartwright, Stuart King and Henrietta Quinnell





Chapter 17: The flint





Anna Lawson-Jones





Chapter 18: The textile and animal-skin object





Esther Cameron, Susanna Harris and Quita Mould







Section 5: The cist and the moor: the environmental setting of the site and its wider landscape context

Chapter 19: The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cist





Ralph M. Fyfe, Jeffrey J. Blackford, Mark Hardiman, Zoe Hazell, Alison MacLeod, Marta Perez and Sarah Littlewood







Section 6: The radiocarbon dating

Chapter 20: Interpreting the chronology of the cist





Peter Marshall, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nicola Russell, Fiona Brock and Paula Reimer







Section 7: Discussion, interpretation and conclusions

Chapter 21: The results from the project





Andy M Jones







Appendices





Appendix A: Chemical analysis of beads from the Whitehorse Hill cist

Joanna Dunster

Appendix B: Report on the scanning electron microscope (SEM) examination of the basketry container and other organic artefacts from Whitehorse Hill cist

Caroline Cartwright

Appendix C: Report on the proteomic analysis of hairs from the basketry container, the braided band and the pelt from the Whitehorse Hill cist





Caroline Solazzo
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European Prehistory/Britain & Ireland