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Genomic portrait and relatedness patterns of the Iron Age Log Coffin culture in northwestern Thailand [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2023
The Iron Age of highland Pang Mapha, northwestern Thailand, is characterised by a mortuary practice known as Log Coffin culture. Dating between 2300 and 1000 years ago, large coffins carved from individual teak trees have been discovered in over 40 caves
Selina Carlhoff, Wibhu Kutanan, Adam B. Rohrlach, Cosimo Posth, Mark Stoneking, Kathrin Nägele, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Johannes Krause   +7 more
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Teak Log Coffins in Northwest Thailand: Dated by Dendrochronology and 14Cwiggle Matching

Applied Environmental Research, 2015
Log coffins have been discovered in caves and rockshelters in the Pang Ma Pha district, Mae Hong Son province, Northwestern Thailand. Most are made of teak wood. Many researchers have used the 14C method to determine their age.
Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Sineenart Wannasri
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The Early Bronze Age Log Coffin Burials of Britain: The Origins and Development of a Burial Rite(s) [PDF]

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2023
This paper describes the results from a project to obtain radiocarbon determinations from Early Bronze Age log coffin burials. Log coffins have been recognised as a burial tradition since antiquarian excavations uncovered the first examples. However, comparatively few are associated with radiocarbon determinations and many old determinations are very ...
Andy M. Jones, Seren Griffiths, Richard Brunning   +2 more
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The South Scandinavian barrows with well-preserved oak-log coffins [PDF]

Antiquity, 2001
Recent archaeological and pedological research on South Scandinavian Bronze Age barrows reveals that the remarkable conditions of preservation in a number of mounds are the result of particular construction techniques or special activities during construction. Augerings indicate that the phenomenon is concentrated within specific groups of barrows with
Mads Kähler Holst, Henrik Breuning‐Madsen, Marianne Rasmussen   +2 more
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On the Curious Date of the Rylstone Log-Coffin Burial [PDF]

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2016
Radiocarbon dates have been obtained from a log-coffin burial excavated in 1864 by Canon William Greenwell from a ditched round barrow at Scale House, near Rylstone, North Yorkshire. The oak tree-trunk coffin had contained an extended body wrapped in a wool textile. The body had entirely decayed and there were no other extant grave goods.
Nigel Melton, Janet Montgomery, Benjamin W. Roberts, Gordon Cook, Susanna Harris   +4 more
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Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined [PDF]

Antiquity, 2010
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to
Nigel Melton, Janet Montgomery, Christopher J. Knüsel, Cathy Batt, Stuart Needham, Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, Carl Heron, Tim Horsley, Armin Schmidt, Adrian Evans, Elizabeth A. Carter, Howell G. M. Edwards, Michael D. Hargreaves, Rob Janaway, Niels Lynnerup, Peter Northover, Sonia O’Connor, Alan Ogden, Timothy Taylor, Vaughan Wastling, A. S. Wilson   +21 more
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Loose Howe; A North Yorkshire Log Coffin Boat Burial(s) Revisited [PDF]

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2018
SummaryIn 1937 a large barrow in north‐east Yorkshire was excavated by Mrs H. W. and Dr F. Elgee. A primary deposit comprising a ‘canoe’‐shaped log coffin and what were described as two ‘log boats’ or ‘canoes’ was uncovered beneath the mound. The burial did not survive; however, the ‘canoe’‐shaped coffin was found to contain an Early Bronze Age Merthyr
Andy M. Jones, Richard Brunning, Neil Wilkin   +2 more
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Gristhorpe Man: a Raman spectroscopic study of ‘mistletoe berries’ in a Bronze Age log coffin burial

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2010
AbstractIn 1834 in a tumulus at Gristhorpe, North Yorkshire, UK, an intact coffin fashioned from the hollowed‐out trunk of an oak tree was found to contain a well‐preserved skeleton stained black from the oak tannins, wrapped in an animal skin and buried with a range of grave artefacts, including a bronze dagger, flints and a bark vessel.
Howell G. M. Edwards, Janet Montgomery, Nigel Melton, Michael D. Hargreaves, A. S. Wilson, Elizabeth A. Carter   +5 more
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A Study of Communities of Practice in Craft Production from Log Coffin Culture Archaeological Sites in Highland Pang Mapha, Northwestern Thailand

MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities
Abstract In the late prehistoric and early historic periods (2,120–1,250 B.P.) in highland Pang Mapha, northwestern Thailand, the Log Coffin Culture represented a unique mortuary practice characterized by specific cemetery locations and coffin stylistic variations within a localized region of mainland Southeast Asia.
Chonchanok Samrit, Rasmi Shoocongdej
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Recent radiocarbon dating and skeletal analysis of two log coffin burials from Yorkshire: Willie Howe and Towthorpe 139

Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 2017
This paper presents the results of the re-analysis and dating of skeletal material from two Early Bronze Age barrows in the east of Yorkshire, which contained log coffin burials. Towthorpe 139, which was investigated in the nineteenth century by the antiquarian JR Mortimer and Willie Howe, Cowlam which was excavated by TCM Brewster in the 1960s ...
Andy M. Jones, Richard Brunning, Katie Keefe, Malin Holst   +3 more
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