Featured: How and why the ancients enchanted Great Britain and Brittany

How and why the ancients enchanted Great Britain and Brittany

Random Image


Barumini Nuraghe

A New Dimension to Ancient Measures - from many years of research and fieldwork

A New Dimension to Ancient Measures - from many years of research and fieldwork

Who's Online

There are currently, 475 guests and 2 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Events >> Wessex Culture Revolution? Conference at Bournemouth University 16-18th April

Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 26 March 2010  Page Views: 16740

EventsCountry: England County: Wiltshire
Internal Links:

New King Barrows
New King Barrows submitted by davidmorgan : Two of the New King Barrows. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Wessex Culture Revolution? or Beaker Evolution? The Decline and Fall of Stonehenge - Conference at Bournemouth University 16-18th April, 2010
The conference will address a problem that archaeologists of the Early Bronze Age have faced since William Cunnington and Sir Richard Colt Hoare first dug into the barrows of Salisbury Plain. What happened to Beaker burial practice in Southern Britain between the late Third and early Second Millennium BC?

In the area of Wessex (the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset), several dramatic changes occurred that transformed the face of the landscape forever. New barrow forms started being built in lines and groups, field boundaries emerged, advanced bronze weaponry from Europeand artistry in gold and amber flourished and ceremonial henges suddenly stopped being elaborated. In cemeteries across Wessex burial practices changed from inhumation to cremation burial in a relatively short time.

Archaeologists have struggled to characterise these different practices. Speculation as to what brought about these changes have ranged from foreign warriors to local insurrections, but for the past forty years little research has been done to understand the reasons for this dramatic change. However, recent discoveries have sparked a flurry of new studies and this conference aims to pool knowledge from archaeologists working with early second millennium artefacts, burials and other evidence from Britain and the Continent to better understand the dynamics of this change termed the ‘Wessex Culture’.

Provisional Programme Highlights:

Paul Garwood - 'Elite' funerals, monuments and landscapes in the 2nd millennium BC: Wessex graves in long-term perspective
John Hunter -Ritual and Early Bronze Age Gravegoods
Ann Woodward - Does the Wessex Culture exist?
Jo Appleby & Andrew Martin - Beyond Fashion: Characterising the shift in cremation in Early Bronze Age Wessex
John Gale - Changing focus and identity in Early Bronze Age Dorset
Mike Allen - Did the farming economy generate the Wessex Culture wealth; changes in environment and agriculture
Jan Harding - Henges and ceremonial monuments
Wessex and the Wider World - Jodie Lewis and David Mullin
West of Wessex but only just: barrow construction on the Mendip Hills, Somerset
Alison Sheridan - Perspectives from beyond Wessex
Ros Cleal - Avebury Barrows
Sabine Gerloff - The locations and chronology of European artefact links abroad
Anthony Harding - Long distance travel and trade in the Bronze Age: the Wessex connection
Martyn Barber & Helen Wickstead - Metallurgy and Society
Nick Thorpe - The Age of warriors? Beaker to Wessex Culture warfare and violence
Jonathan Last - The rise of the round barrow

Further details and on-line registration can be found at:
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/conservation/conferences/wessexculture
or email csconferences@bournemouth.ac.uk

WessexCulture, 16th – 18th April 2010
Centre for Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, Dorset, UK

<< Megalithic Portal Live Events - Megalithomania and Festival of British Archaeolo

The Fifth Megalithomania Conference, May 8th - 9th, Glastonbury >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Prehistoric Avebury

Prehistoric Avebury

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Wessex Culture Revolution? Conference at Bournemouth University 16-18th April" | Login/Create an Account | 0 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.