Ritual Bones or Common Waste: A study of Early Medieval bone deposits in Northern EuropeBarkhuis, 1 dec 2013 - 187 pagina's This book addresses the problems of identifying human actions behind finds of bones in settlement archaeology, exemplified with the identification of ritual deposits. In order to formulate a methodological framework for approaching the identification of ritual deposits, different methods are tested on four Early Medieval case studysites: Dongjum and Leeuwarden, two artificial dwelling mounds situated in the then undiked salt marches of the Northern Netherlands, Midlaren, an inland settlement in Drenthe, also in the Northern Netherlands, and finally Uppåkra, a central place in the South of Sweden. The bone fragments from the four materials are studied in a five step process of definition, description, identification, interpretation and explanation. The deposits are discussed with the help of various archaeological, ethnographic and historical sources. The results of the analysis lead to a methodological framework for understanding individual deposits based on a holistic perspective where all information is regarded as potentially valuable, various methods are taken into consideration, and simplification is avoided. |
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3 Identifying ritual deposits | 27 |
4 Dongjum | 53 |
5 Leeuwarden | 64 |
6 Midlaren | 85 |
7 Uppåkra | 93 |
8 Interpretation and explanation of activity | 116 |
9 Conclusions | 141 |
Appendix I Additional butchery marks | 145 |
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English summary | 164 |
Dutch summary | 172 |
Acknowledgements | 181 |
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activity actually analogies analyses animal bones archaeological assemblage astragali bird body bone fragments bone material building cattle century chapter common compared complete connected considered contained context cremation dated dealing described Dongjum Early Early Medieval ethnographic example excavation existence explained feast feature Figure finds four fracture fragments historical horse human bones identified important indicate individual interesting interpreted Iron Age later layer least Leeuwarden mainly major mandible marks mentioned methods Middle Ages Midlaren normal Northern Europe objects observed offering performed Period possible practice presented problems reason remains result ritual Roman Period Saga seen selected settlement sheep sheep/goat similar situation skulls society sources southern special deposits species stage structure taphonomic terp texts translation Uppåkra usually various weapon deposit weathering weight written sources zijn