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Transformation through Destruction (Paperback)
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Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of
Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event
in the life of local communities, for he received an extraordinary
funeral, which ended with the construction of an impressive barrow.
Based on the meticulous excavation and a range of specialist and
comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now can
be brought to life in surprising detail. An Iron Age community used
extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the
elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe. This book
will discuss how lavishly decorated items were dismantled and taken
apart to be connected with the body of the deceased, all to be
destroyed by fire. In what appears to be a meaningful pars pro toto
ritual, the remains of his body, the pyre, and the objects were
searched through and moved about, with various elements being
manipulated, intentionally broken, and interred or removed. In
essence, a person and a place were transformed through destruction.
The book shows how the mourners carefully, almost lovingly covered
the funeral remains with a barrow. Attention is also given to
another remarkable monument, long mound 6, located immediately
adjacent to mound 7. Excavations show how mound 7 was part of an
age-old ritual heath landscape that was entirely restructured
during the Early Iron Age, when it became the setting for the
building of no less than three huge Hallstatt C barrows. Thousands
of years later, during the Late Middle Ages, this landscape
underwent a complete transformation of meaning when the prehistoric
barrows became the scenery for a macabre display of the cadavers of
executed criminals. This publication is part of the Ancestral
Mounds Research Project of the University of Leiden.
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