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The 'bog bodies' of north-western Europe have captured the
imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come
face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional
preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives
and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But,
as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a
turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the
latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a
ground-breaking 'cold case' forensic study of Worsley Man,
Manchester Museum's 'bog head', it brings the bogs to life through
both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that
were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that
these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but
also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on
if - and how - they should be displayed. -- .
Britain 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.
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