Transformation through destruction
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 exca...
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2021
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-276662025-07-21T15:58:02Z Transformation through destruction Fontijn, David van der Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja Jansen, Richard archaeology prehistory iron age Hallstatt barrow excavation excavation techniques burial ritual thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology 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. 2021-02-10T13:16:28Z 2021-02-10T13:16:28Z 2020-06-16T09:39:01Z 2013 book OCN: 842881589 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39594 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27666 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39594/1/9789088901027.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39594/1/9789088901027.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39594/1/9789088901027.pdf Sidestone Press f8b41c78-b5d0-411d-aa34-324bccd61c66 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 348 open access |
| spellingShingle | archaeology prehistory iron age Hallstatt barrow excavation excavation techniques burial ritual thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Transformation through destruction |
| title | Transformation through destruction |
| title_full | Transformation through destruction |
| title_fullStr | Transformation through destruction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transformation through destruction |
| title_short | Transformation through destruction |
| title_sort | transformation through destruction |
| topic | archaeology prehistory iron age Hallstatt barrow excavation excavation techniques burial ritual thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
| topic_facet | archaeology prehistory iron age Hallstatt barrow excavation excavation techniques burial ritual thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
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