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Projet JADE 2. ‘Object-signs’ and social interpretations of Alpine jade axeheads in the European Neolithic: theory and methodology
This volume brings together a group of peer reviewed papers, most of them presented at a workshop held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The event took place on 15–17 October 2011 and was part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe...Pétrequin, Pierre ; Sheridan, J A ; Gauthier, Estelle ; Cassen, S ; Errera, Michael …
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The different histories of the Norrie's Law hoard
This paper reviews the different histories of objects within the Norrie's Law hoard and demonstrates the likelihood that at least two objects - a plaque decorated with Pictish symbols and a handpin - are nineteenth-century forgeries.Goldberg, D Martin ; Blackwell, Alice
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Appendix VII. Necklaces: additional data.
The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ‘Wessex Culture’ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alternative theories have sought to explain how display of such...Sheridan, J A ; Woodward, Ann
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Woodward, Ann ; Hunter, John ; Sheridan, J A
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The cinerary urns
This volume presents the results of fieldwork on the East Lothian coastal plain in south-east Scotland investigating the nature of later prehistoric settlement around the hillfort of Traprain Law. Following geomagnetic surveys at thirty sites, six enclosures were excavated, three extensively. All six had complex occupation histories, involving multiple acts...Sheridan, J A