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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"Iron Age"”.
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Bronze metallurgy in Iron Age central Europe : a metallurgical study of Early Iron Age bronzes from Stična, Slovenia.
The Early Iron Age (750-450 BCE) marks a time in the European Alpine Region in which cultural ideologies surrounding bronze objects and bronze production were changing. Iron was becoming the preferred material from which to make many utilitarian objects such as weapons and agricultural tools; this …
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Interpreting Iron Age settlement landscapes of Wigtownshire
… by considering how we can interpret the Iron Age settlement in Wigtownshire, SW Scotland. Traditional images of Iron Age warfaring hierarchical societies have persisted through the use of well-established classifications, such as ‘fort’ or ‘roundhouse’ and by the uncritical acceptance of …
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Aspects of the late Atlantic Iron Age
The Scottish Atlantic Iron Age is recognised as falling into four periods, the EIA, MIA, LIA I and LIA II. Least is known of the LIA I, the immediate post-broch period. Original analysis of the C-14 record confirms these divisions; they result as a combination of the effects of the Trondheim …
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The Early Iron Age socketed axes in Britain
… and association in the British Early Iron Age (800-600BC) through the medium of the socketed axe. Out of 1412 known Early Iron Age axes, 954 specimens were analysed in detail for this thesis: 680 associated finds and 274 single finds. The methodology was governed by two main …
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Developing archaeomagnetic dating in the British Iron Age.
… date ranges for 232 magnetic directions from 98 Iron Age sites were reviewed and a programme of fieldwork produced 25 new magnetic directions from 11 Iron Age sites across Britain. The approach developed in this thesis has made significant improvements to the data examined, which represent the …
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Tell Hesban and Vicinity in the Iron Age
… this endeavor, a final report dealing with the Iron Age remains has not yet appeared. Although relatively little remains from the Iron Age, which is the earliest period represented on the tell, an understanding of what is left is nevertheless important for comprehending the role the site played …
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An Iron Age in the Philippines?: A Critical Examination
Based on the limited evidence of iron artifacts and the associated pottery, it has been argued that a ’’Philippine Iron Age” began sometime between ca. 500 - 200 B.C. This study employing current archaeological and anthropological methods and metallurgical techniques analyzes the evidence for iron …
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Iron age maritime nodes on the English Channel coast.
Studies of Iron Age coastal sites in southern Britain have previously concentrated on Hengistbury Head, Dorset and Mount Batten, Devon. These sites have coloured our understanding of late Iron Age cross-Channel interactions. The possibility of many other coastal sites being identified has been …
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The core assemblage of the Iron Age cult in Palestine
… examines the relationship between selected Iron Age cultic sites found in the land of Canaan and their material cultures. The resulting data allows the creation of tentative paradigms reflecting the material culture found in Iron Age temples, chapels, votive shrines, and offertory shrines. …
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Wetwang Slack : an Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds.
This work is an examination of a large Iron Age cemetery which was excavated by the writer at Wetwang Slack on the Yorkshire Wolds between 1975 and 1979. The chief features which make this site exceptional are the large number of inhumation burials involved (446), the unusually good stratigraphical …
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The Human Image in the Iron Age Iconography of Gaul
… development of anthropomorphic iconography in Iron Age Gaul, up to the beginning of the Roman period. The principal focus is on freestanding human imagery. Art, and in particular religious art, is for many societies a critical feature in the definition of cultural identity. It is the contention …
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A Regional Ceramic Analysis of Iron Age II Southeastern Arabia
… sites in the United Arab Emirates. These include Iron Age campsites at Muweilah, a shell-midden field and campsites at Hamriyah, burial sites in the Wadial-Qawr and an elite building at Muweilah. A program of ceramic research involving a combination of both visual and chemical fabric analyses and …
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Religious and Ritualized Landscapes of Iron Age North Central Eurasia
… phenomenon in north central Eurasia during the Iron Age (ca. 1,000 BCE – 100 CE). Frequently depicted elements of this style include composite animals composed of animal elements fused together to create a new mythical animal; a stylized geometric design within the animal; and an interaction of …
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Iron age metal working at the Tsodilo Hills, Northwestern Botswana
… metal working technology employed at two major Iron Age archaeological sites in southern Africa. The research involved the description and analysis of two large metal working assemblages with a total of 2922 metal artefacts, fragments of ore, and slag, from the sites of Divuyu (6th 8th century …
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Iron age decorative metalwork in southern Africa: an archival study
… and use of decorative metalwork in the Iron Age (200-1900 AD) of southern Africa, within a framework of archival studies and artefact studies theory. The thesis adopted a direct historical approach which exploited the huge database of existing information to create typologies of objects …
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Visualising Southern African late iron age settlements in the digital age
VISUALISING SOUTHERN AFRICAN LATE IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE studies the visualisation of Southern African Late Iron Age Settlements (LIAS) (c. 900–1800) across the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries (1871–2020), as found in a survey of the cultural …
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The Iron Age I Structure on Mount Ebal: Excavation and Interpretation
<p><em>Problem.</em> The Iron Age I site on Mt. Ebal, discovered in 1980 by Adam Zertal and excavated between 1982 and 1989, has remained largely unknown by both the scholarly community and the public. No scholarly congress or colloquium has ever been held regarding the Mt. Ebal excavations. The …
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