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Transformation through destruction : a monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen

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Fontijn, David R.
Published
Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
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1 online resource (346 pages)
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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.
Summary
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local communities, for he received an extraordinary funeral, which ended with the construction of an impressive barrow. 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. An Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe. This book will discuss how lavishly decorated items were dismantled and taken apart to be connected with the body of the deceased, all to be destroyed by fire. In what appears to be a meaningful pars pro toto ritual, the remains of his body, the pyre, and the objects were searched through and moved about, with various elements being manipulated, intentionally broken, and interred or removed. In essence, a person and a place were transformed through destruction. The book shows how the mourners carefully, almost lovingly covered the funeral remains with a barrow. Attention is also given to another remarkable monument, long mound 6, located immediately adjacent to mound 7. Excavations show how mound 7 was part of an age-old ritual heath landscape that was entirely restructured during the Early Iron Age, when it became the setting for the building of no less than three huge Hallstatt C barrows. Thousands of years later, during the Late Middle Ages, this landscape underwent a complete transformation of meaning when the prehistoric barrows became the scenery for a macabre display of the cadavers of executed criminals. This publication is part of the Ancestral Mounds Research Project of the University of Leiden.
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9789088901690 (electronic bk.)
9088901694 (electronic bk.)
1299559107 (electronic bk.)
9781299559103 (electronic bk.)
9088901023 (Trade Paper)
9789088901027 (Trade Paper)
9789088901027
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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