Funerary and Related Cups of the British Bronze Age - Softcover

Copper, Claire; Gibson, Alex; Hallam, Deborah

 
9781803271668: Funerary and Related Cups of the British Bronze Age
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1803271663 ISBN 13: 9781803271668
Verlag: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Funerary and related cups of the British Bronze Age presents the first national corpus and study of these often highly decorated items. Cups are the least studied of all Bronze Age funerary ceramics and their interpretations are still based on antiquarian speculation. They are clearly 'Urnes of no small Variety' and previous attempts at classification have largely failed due to this variation. Their potential uses, technologies and associations are examined and many myths, such as their association with children and their role in accompanying other ceramics such as Collared Urns and Food Vessels are examined and questioned. Cups appear to have been grave goods in their own right and the term 'accessory vessel' is rejected. The book contains a fully referenced and illustrated national corpus that will form the basis for future studies.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Claire Copper, an experienced field archaeologist and established member of the supervisory team at the Ness of Brodgar excavations in Orkney, completed her MPhil on the Bronze Age funerary cups of southern England in 2017 at the University of Bradford. Her current doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh is funded by the Margaret Stewart Bequest and builds upon her MScRes study of the Beaker pottery of northern Britain and the Netherlands. Alex Gibson has worked in the field of Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology for the last 40 years with the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, English Heritage and the University of Bradford. He has published extensively on Neolithic/BA pottery, ritual monuments and sepulchral practices and has written over 150 specialist reports on Neolithic and BA ceramics. Deborah Hallam, following a career in industry, entered the University of Bradford as a mature student to study for a BA in Archaeology. She went on to complete an MPhil by research and is currently researching for a PhD on the Neolithic of the Yorkshire Dales.

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Verlag
Archaeopress Archaeology
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1803271663
ISBN 13 
9781803271668
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
329
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