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SummaryThe stability of theGrand Menhiragainst high velocity winds, and its fall and subsequent breakage are analyzed dynamically. It is concluded that the present locations of the fragments indicate strongly that the menhir was indeed erected and that it broke on impacting with the ground. theGrand Menhir Brisérepresents a unique example of breakage in which dynamical principles of solid mechanics have been found scientifically appropriate

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00331.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryTwo major traditions of decoration from the later Neolithic and/or earlier Bronze Age, rock art and passage tomb art, are compared. Both traditions are briefly described, and are compared on the basis of both site and motif characteristics. Their chronological relationship is also discussed, indicating at least a large overlap in time between them. These two show a general affiliation on a number of levels, suggesting a similar degree of relationship between their respective makers. However, they also show important differences, suggesting that they are products of different sets of ritual or symbolic behaviour, or of similarly different groups of people.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00332.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryDifferent types of Mediterranean coral are described, and the potential sources of prehistoric coral in the central Mediterranean are considered. Early examples of coral artefacts from in and around the alpine region, as well as their finds‐contexts, are then described and chronologically defined, and their value, use, and exchange is discusse

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00333.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummarySeveral cases of overseas branches of Phoenician unguent factories have been hypothesized for Dark Age Greece. Efforts to evaluate the hypotheses to date have focused on technical and artistic characteristics of artifactual remains. This paper shifts that focus to examination of social and economic prerequisites and concomitants of foreign branch plants, and implications for archaeological testing. the economic structure of the problem is characterized as involving factory location and foreign direct investment; these concepts are examined for anachronisms. the size of establishment required to make the branch factory hypothesis plausible may not have been an insuperable problem, but the capacity to repatriate profits in the Greek Dark Age places more serious restrictions on the branch plant hypothesis. One of the more reasonable alternatives to the branch plant hypothesis is the immigrant craftsman, the implications of which are discussed.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00334.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe high proportion of sheep bones and the finding of implements used in cloth manufacture have led to suggestions that this Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire was a centre for wool cloth making. In the absence of textile remains from the site, evidence from other Iron Age sites with such remains is used to suggest that the sheep kept at Danebury are likely to have had mainly primitive hairy and primitive woolly fleeces with an annual moult and a range of colours. the absence of shears suggests a more primitive method of harvesting the wool. White wool and dyed textiles from the other sites indicates the possibility of dyeing. A reassessment of the textile implements suggests that the textile activity was no more than domestic production. the weight of the spindle whorls is discussed in relation to the sort of wool spun, but further experimentation is proposed to answer such questions as the true use of the “weaving” combs. the slingshots might have been hurled with a wool sling and not only at a human enemy or at game, but to control sheep flo

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00335.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryThe port of Alet (Saint‐Malo) plays a key role in models of cross‐Channel trade prior to the conquest of Gaul. It is argued here that the bulk of the archaeological evidence from this site may however be more correctly assigned to the decades following the Gallic War, and consequently it is necessary to reassess the nature of the connection between Alet and Hengistbury Head in the first half of the first century BC. the evidence of amphorae and recent work on Armorican pottery, combined with a consideration of the problems of navigation in this region, indicates that a coastal route was preferred to a cross‐peninsular journey via Alet; it is suggested that Guernsey may have been an important point on this route, and that Alet and the gulf of Saint‐Malo were usually avoided. the evidence presented seems to support Caesar's comment that the Veneti controlled cross‐Channel trade at th

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00336.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryIt is observable ‐ from standing buildings‐that the stone used in the study area of the East Brittany Survey has for the most part travelled a very short distance (<5 km), whether the building is grand or simple. Excavation has demonstrated that the same is true of structures of earlier periods, although Roman building is differentiated by its preference for the very hard stones that occur to the north of the area. Surface scatters of building stone on modern arable fields, if carefully observed, are a useful tool for locating stone‐built settlements of the historic period and scatters of Cambrian siltstones can point to the location of medieval seigneurial settlements. Manuring scatters of roofing slate, which can be differentiated by period, are a useful tool for defining the arable worked from settlements, especially in the later and post‐medieval periods, and therefore for mapping the changing patterns of land‐use. With sufficient training of volunteers or of a research team, a large body of data can be gathered very eco

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00337.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00338.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryA survey of excavation reports for sixty‐one LPRIA sites in Britain reveals five ‘fine’ balances and objects possibly representing seven more. This paper describes the scales and discusses their use in Iron Age Br

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00339.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00340.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY