A forged glamour : landscape, identity and material culture in the Iron Age / Melanie Giles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giles, Melanie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--Great Britain.

Iron age.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Windgather Press, 2012.

Summary:

A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between the 4th and 1st centuries BC. It evaluates settlement and funerary evidence, analyses farming and craftwork, and explores what some of their ideas and beliefs might have been. It situates this regional material within the broader context of Iron Age Britain, Ireland and the near Continent, and considers what manner of society this was. In order to do this it makes use

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Archaeological Approaches to Landscape, Identity and Material Culture; 2. History Making: Linear Earthworks in the Landscape; 3. Building Biographies: Houses and Households; 4. Life and Death in an Iron Age Community; 5. From Hand-to-Hand: Biographies of Grave Goods; 6. Actors and Props: the Theatre of Life and Death; 7. Making Tracks: Journeying with the Dead; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781909686038

1909686034