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Later Iron Age mortuary rites in southern Britain :

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TLets770969

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Later Iron Age mortuary rites in southern Britain :

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Lamb, Andrew William

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socio-political significance and insular and continental context

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Haselgrove, Colin ; James, Simon

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University of Leicester

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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University of Leicester

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2018

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This thesis examines the parts played by human remains in communities during the Later Iron Age, and how these roles changed over time. Through careful consideration of the available evidence, and by employing a new, composite theoretical model, this thesis will reframe Iron Age burial practises, by relating changes in mortuary rites to developments in the social and political organisation of societies in Britain and on the continent. To achieve this, it examines mortuary data from communities living in Later Iron Age southern Britain (c.500BC-c.AD70): the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Sussex and Kent. Within this region, the dead were treated in a variety of ways in different locations and at different periods. Noted temporal changes to mortuary rites coinside with observable changes in the wider archaeological record, indicating that changes in such rites were part of wider sociopolitical developments. Besides marked developments over time and intra-regional heterogeneity, this data, at times, displays clear parallels to contemporary practices elsewhere in Britain and the near continent. This study considers the social and political role played by human remains during times of change. In doing so, it contextualises these rites within the broader British and near continental world. Taken together it suggests that mortuary practices were an integral part of Iron Age living, an important resource for structural cohesion, and one which was in part affected by changes elsewhere.

Lamb, Andrew William

James, Simon

Haselgrove, Colin

University of Leicester

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