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Summary.Re‐study of the fauna recovered in 1969 during excavations by John Campbell in front of the West Entrance to Robin Hood Cave, Creswell Crags, Derbyshire, England, shows it to include components of different ages. Arctic hare is the only species certainly exploited by humans and it is suggested that the position and character of cut‐marks preserved on bone surfaces documents the processing and possible consumption of uncooked meat. It has not been possible to identify the time(s) of year when these hares died. Radiocarbon results for cut‐marked bones are important for dating the Creswe

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00029.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Within the extensive plateau crossed by the upper Miño there are a vast number of tumuli. Their distribution is fairly homogeneous and they reach densities of up to 6 mounds per km2. The grave goods recovered from some of these monuments bear little relation to those in the coastal areas, especially so by the later part of the 3rd millenium BC. Recent surveys have found that some of the biggest concentrations of tombs are located near to natural passes or ridges that connect the inland plateau with the eastern districts of La Coruña and Pontevedra provinces. We suggest that proximity to crossing points between different areas was an important factor in the local setting of the mounds. On a larger scale the same principle might explain the occurrence of considerable clusters of monuments close to natural passes between regions that were especially important during this perio

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00030.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.The settlement complex on Longbridge Deverill Cow Down in west Wiltshire comprises two major farmsteads, with their associated trackways and field systems, which were in use from the 8th to the 2nd century BC. The excavations, between 1956 and 1960, could only sample Enclosures II and III, whose ditches turned out to be relatively late features belonging to the larger and longer lived of the two farms. However, by good fortune, the interior areas excavated contained the very well‐preserved post‐holes of no less than four successive great round houses, the largest up to 60 feet (18.30 m.) in diameter, with masses of surviving structural evidence, pottery and other finds. This article describes and discusses the latest and best preserved of the great houses, House 3 of the end of the 6th century, and it attempts to throw new light not just on the construction and internal lay‐out of these huge structures, but also the manner in which they may have been used, domestically and ceremonially, by their inhabitants at the end of the Late Bronze and beginning of the Iron Age in W

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00031.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.Hillforts constitute a dominant element in the settlement pattern of Iron Age Wessex. This paper examines the nature of hillforts in the light of recent excavations, and seeks to demonstrate how, over the Early and Middle Iron Age (c. 600–100 BC), these focal places acquired a range of functions central to the articulation of the socio‐economic system. At developed hillforts, cycles of exchange were orchestrated by the elite. The demise of hillforts about 100 BC is considered in the light of indigenous developments and external factors. Explanations are sought for this transformation from which the very‐different Late Iron Age system em

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00032.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.The bronze matrix, now in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, is said to have been found in southern Thessaly close to Larissa Kremaste. As comparanda for the Scylla on the matrix the silver gilt plaque from the third century BC necropolis of Dyrrhachion in Illyria is discussed, as well as the matrix in the Antikensammlungen of Berlin and silver plaques decorating a belt from a late‐fourth‐century BC grave at Laos, Lucania. Discussing the Thetis emblem on the other side of the matrix the author analyses the motive in Classical art of the fifth/fourth century BC, paying special attention to the stamped fourth‐century BC gold and silver plaques with similar design coming from the Cimmerian Bosporus, Thessaly and Macedonia. Conclusions are drawn about the authenticity of the matrix in the Fogg Art Museum, and the close interconnections between toreutic centres in the late fourth centu

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00033.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary.This paper challenges the current consensual view that classical urbanism continued in Britain to the end of the Roman period. It offers a quantitative analysis of structures, deposits and artefacts at Roman Colchester, and discusses a number of interpretative problems arising from this material. It is argued on the basis of this evidence that a profound change occurred in the character of the town between c.250 andc. 325, and that this constituted the end of classical urbanism on the site and the emergence of a distinctively late Roman urban settlement – a ‘post‐classical’ town. A description of the principal characteristics of fourth century Colchester as known from archaeology is offered, and an attempt is made to put this in the context of the third century crisis and the late Roman rev

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00034.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY