LEADER 03379nam 22004453a 450 001 9910633942703321 005 20230124202110.0 010 $a1-78925-750-6 024 8 $ahttps://doi. org/10.5284/1052206 035 $a(CKB)4950000000289883 035 $a(ScCtBLL)3ba3996a-a229-48e4-b569-a04bf50ba6f0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000289883 100 $a20211214i20222021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGrave Goods : $eObjects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain /$fAnwen Cooper, Duncan Garrow, Catriona Gibson, Melanie Giles 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cOxbow Books,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 330 $aBritain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they also speak of the care shown to the dead by the living, and of people's relationships with 'things'. Objects matter. This book's title is an intentional play on words. These are objects in burials; but they are also goods, material culture, that must be taken seriously. Within it, we outline the results of the first long-term, large-scale investigation into grave goods during this period, which enables a new level of understanding of mortuary practice and material culture throughout this major period of technological innovation and social transformation. Analysis is structured at a series of different scales, ranging from macro-scale patterning across Britain, to regional explorations of continuity and change, to site-specific histories of practice, to micro-scale analysis of specific graves and the individual objects (and people) within them. We bring these different scales of analysis together in the first ever book focusing specifically on objects and death in later prehistoric Britain. Focusing on six key case study regions, the book innovatively synthesises antiquarian reports, research projects and developer funded excavations. At the same time, it also engages with, and develops, a number of recent theoretical trends within archaeology, including personhood, object biography and materiality, ensuring that it will be of relevance right across the discipline. Its subject matter will also resonate with those working in anthropology, sociology, museology and other areas where death, burial and the role of material culture in people's lives are key contemporary issues. 606 $aSocial Science / Archaeology$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Europe / Great Britain$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Ancient$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aSocial Science / Archaeology 615 7$aHistory / Europe / Great Britain 615 7$aHistory / Ancient 615 0$aSocial sciences 700 $aCooper$b Anwen$01271528 702 $aGarrow$b Duncan 702 $aGibson$b Catriona 702 $aGiles$b Melanie 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910633942703321 996 $aGrave Goods$92995285 997 $aUNINA