Fiskerton
Fiskerton, located in the Witham valley of Lincoln, is one of only a handful of excavated sites in Europe to reveal the Iron Age practice of ritually destroying special and elite objects by placing them in a body of water.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Oakville, CT :
Oxbow Books
2003.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009666933706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations; Preface (N Field and M Parker Pearson); Summary - Resume - Zusammenfassung; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; The timber causeway; The environmental setting of the causeway; The wooden remains; The Iron Age weaponry and tools; The other Iron Age artefacts; The Roman and Medieval artefacts; The human and animal bones; The Fiskerton causeway; Fiskerton in its local and regional setting; The Fiskerton votive assemblage and its context; The British and European context of Fiskerton; Regional social dynamics in later Prehistoric eastern England; Appendix: other archaeological excavations at Fiskerton; References; Colour plates; Index.
