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E-book Death Revisited : The Excavation of Three Bronze Age Barrows and Surrounding Landscape at Apeldoorn-Wieselseweg

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Penilaian

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Barrows are the most common prehistoric monuments that can still be found in the European landscape today. Once erected as burial markers during prehistory, burial mounds have since served as important anchors in the landscape. Burial mounds built in the 3rd millennium BC were sometimes used to bury the dead until the 1st millennium BC (Bourgeois 2013; Theunissen 1999). Occasionally, these monuments were also used in Roman times and the Middle Ages, and were sometimes shrouded in superstition and folklore until the 19th century AD (see for example Meurkens 2010). In prehistory, the erection of burial mounds must have been an important act: their visibility almost guaranteed a long history. Strangely enough, however, little is known regarding why the graves of certain decedents were marked with a monument, while those of others were not (cf. Theunissen 1999). Even less is known about the – in our view – remarkably ‘loose’ spatial planning of burial mounds. Walking through the Veluwe, the present-day visitor sees burial mounds almost everywhere, without seeing tight clusters like we imagine a real graveyard to be.One of the important discoveries that have been made in the last ten years is that there were many more burial mounds than we thought possible. In the Netherlands there were already thousands known and registered as monuments, but with the rise of high quality LIDAR images, large numbers of ‘new’ mounds have been found. The open accessibility of high resolution elevation models (Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederlandin Dutch; AHN), available for the entirety of the Netherlands (www.ahn.nl), has led to many new discoveries, especially in forested areas that are difficult to access and where visibility of elevations is hindered by trees and brush.This book presents research into such a discovery: a group of three mounds, two of which are so insignificant in height that they hardly stood out and could only be interpreted as ‘possible’ burial mounds with great uncertainty. Excavations of some of these mounds, however, showed that we are not only dealing with Bronze Age barrows, but above all that there can be surprisingly many graves in apparently insignificant mounds. Research into the surroundings showed that even in a soil archive that has been strongly disturbed by forestry activities, there are still important archaeological traces that offer us remarkable insights into the organisation of a Bronze Age funerary landscape. Within the more comprehensive research into the nature and significance of barrow landscapes from later prehistory, the burial mounds along the Wieselseweg offer interesting research opportunities.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

930.1 BOU d

Penerbit

Leiden : Sidestone Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

190 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789088905827

Klasifikasi

930.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Archaeology

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