Hillfort gate-mechanisms: a contextual, architectural reassessment of Eddisbury, Hembury, and Cadbury hillforts [PDF]
Archaeological Journal, 2020 This paper offers a typology of hillfort gate-mechanisms, and a developed understanding of temporal depth in hillfort architecture – via applied contextual analysis. Rediscovery of the Eddisbury hillfort archive revealed three iron gate-mechanisms. To situate these rare objects, detailed analyses of entrance architecture and stratigraphy was conducted –
Rachel Pope, Derek Hamilton
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Ancient tin production: Slags from the Iron Age Carvalhelhos hillfort (NW Iberian Peninsula) [PDF]
, 2018 Provenance and production of tin in the Ancient World has since long been a major topic of discussion among archaeologists. In Western Europe, where significant tin ore (cassiterite) deposits are known, only a few remains of ancient tin production, such ...
Figueiredo, Elin +5 more
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SERFing in the Scottish heartlands: artefacts and the research strategy [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes the first phase (2006–11) of the SERF (Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot) project and outlines the research strategy developed by a team of prehistorians and medievalists.
Driscoll, S.T.
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, 2019 This article focuses on three research questions: 1) Were terraced landscapes built in the analytical or creative phase of the first human intervention in a place?
Azman Momirski, Lucija
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, 2019 Hillforts represent the largest and arguably most impressive archaeological monuments in the Irish landscape. While the study of hillforts progressed rapidly in Britain during the twentieth century, it was not until the work of Barry Raftery in the late 1960s and 70s that these great enclosures became the focus of sustained research in Ireland. Raftery'
O'Driscoll, James +2 more
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Filling the gaps: the Iron Age in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan [PDF]
, 2017 Over the last 20 years interpretive approaches within Iron Age studies in Britain have moved from the national to the regional. This was an important development which challenged the notion that a unified, British, Iron Age ever existed.
Davis, Oliver
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Z badań nad systemem grodzisk z wczesnego okresu epoki żelaza na obszarze Podola. Wstępne wyniki prac ekspedycji Instytutu Prahistorii Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w obrębie grodziska w Severinìvce, obwód Winnica [PDF]
, 2013 Archaeological investigations carried out by the Institute of Prehistory of Adam Mickiewicz University at the early Iron Age hillfort in Severynivka is a part of the research project “Fortresses of Ukraine”, conducted in cooperation with the Institute of
Affelski, Jakub +3 more
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What was a mortarium used for? Organic residues and cultural change in Iron Age and Roman Britain. [PDF]
, 2011 The Romans brought the mortarium to Britain in the first century AD, and there has long been speculation on its actual purpose. Using analysis of the residues trapped in the walls of these ‘kitchen blenders’ and comparing them with Iron Age and Roman ...
Cramp, Lucy J E +2 more
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Three Thousand Years of Continuity in the Maternal Lineages of Ancient Sheep (Ovis aries) in Estonia [PDF]
, 2016 lthough sheep (Ovis aries) have been one of the most exploited domestic animals in Estonia since the Late Bronze Age, relatively little is known about their genetic history.
Lõugas, Lembi +7 more
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Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex [PDF]
, 2010 archaeological records. As a result of the manner in which human and animal remains are traditionally studied and reported on, the analysis of taphonomic processes which affect the character of specimens between death and incorporation into forming ...
Madgwick, Richard
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