Transformation through destruction : a monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen / edited by D. Fontijn, S. van der Vaart & R. Jansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fontijn, David R., editor.

Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja van der, editor.

Jansen, Richard, 1969- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hallstatt period--Netherlands--Oss Region.

Hallstatt period.

Burial--Netherlands--Oss Region.

Burial.

Tombs--Netherlands--Oss Region.

Tombs.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Netherlands--Oss Region.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Oss Region (Netherlands)--Antiquities.

Oss Region (Netherlands).

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

346 pages ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press [2013]

Summary:

Over a 1000 tiny bronze artefacts were found alongside the remains of a man in a Dutch barrow that was excavated in laboratory conditions. The objects had been dismantled and taken apart, all to be destroyed by fire in what appears to have been a pars pro toto burial. In essence, a person and a place were being transformed through destruction. 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. This Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe.

Contents:

The last mound(s) of Zevenbergen : cause, aims, and methods of the 2007 fieldwork campaign / David Fontijn and Richard Jansen

The physical and archaeological landscape of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrow group / Richard Jansen and Cristian van der Linde

"Mound" 6 : a post and ditch aligned long barrow / Patrick Valentijn

Excavating the seventh mound / David Fontijn, Richard Jansen, Quentin Bourgeois and Cristian van der Linde

The central find assemblage of mound 7 / Sasja van der Vaart, David Fontijn and Patrick Valentijn

The urn, bone, and iron from the central find assemblage in mound 7 / David Fontijn, Richard Jansen and Sasja van der Vaart

Dismantled, transformed, and deposited : prehistoric bronze from the centre of mound 7 / David Fontijn and Sasja van der Vaart

Conservation starts in the field : the retrieval and conservation of the finds from Oss-Zevenbergen / Jo Kempkens

Bronze studs : colouring, reconstruction, and conservation / Janneke Nienhuis, Jilt Sietsma, David Fontijn, Ineke Joosten and Joris Dik

The local vegetation at the time of the construction of the Oss-Zevenbergen mounds 7 and 6 / Corrie Bakels and Yvonne Achterkamp with a contribution by Pauline van Rijn

An attempt to chemically identify the organic material inside the bronze studs from mound 7 using DT-MS / T.F.M. Oudemans

Analysis of the cremated bone from mound 7 / Liesbeth Smits

A secondary burial in mound 7 : a macabre reuse of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrows in the Late Medieval Period / Richard Jansen and Liesbeth Smits

Mesolithic finds in an Iron Age barrow / Alexander Verpoorte

Excavating the surroundings of the Oss-Zevenbergen mounds (6 and 7) / Richard Jansen and Ivo van Wijk

Conclusion, the seventh mound of seven mounds : long-term history of the Zevenbergen barrow landscape / David Fontijn, Richard Jansen, Sasja van der Vaart, Harry Fokkens and Ivo van Wijk

Preserving and presenting the mounds and finds of Oss-Zevenbergen / Richard Jansen, Luc Amkreutz and Sasja van der Vaart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9088901023

9789088901027

OCLC:

828187266

Publisher Number:

99957029409