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  2. Creating Society and Constructing the Past: Social Change in the Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age

Creating Society and Constructing the Past: Social Change in the Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age

Alex Davies 2018 © BAR Publishing
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This book gives a new account of society and social change in the upper and middle Thames Valley from the Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age, 1150-100 BC. A model is developed from social anthropological case studies setting out expectations on how societies are structured based on certain material manifestations. Patterns are found within the wide range of types of evidence that are integrated and synthesised. This includes settlements, house forms, metalwork, pottery, human and animal remains, monuments, landscape boundaries and special deposits.The main interpretation offered is that Late Bronze Age societies were fluid and unstructured by either social status differences or lineage identities, whereas Early Iron Age communities were more concerned with ancestral genealogy and inter-generational inheritance. By the Middle Iron Age, communal aspects of ritual practice and material practice were largely replaced by local and household concerns in which smaller groups displayed increasing autonomy from each other.
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  • BAR pre-2020
  • BAR British Series pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407316062 (paperback)
  • 9781407323237 (ebook)
BAR Number
  • B637
Subject
  • Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
  • Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
  • Theory and Method (general titles)
  • Ceramics and Pottery Studies
  • Metal Objects
  • Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
  • Landscape Archaeology
  • Ritual / Religion / Temples
  • Bronze Age and Iron Age
  • Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
  • British Isles
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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Graphs
  • List of Maps
  • Abstract
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chappter 2: Understanding Objects, Identity and Community
  • Chapter 3: The Late Bronze Age
  • Chapter 4: The Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Transition
  • Chapter 5: The Early Iron Age
  • Chapter 6: The Middle Iron Age
  • Chapter 7: Discussion
  • Bibliography
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