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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Summary -- Foreign language summaries -- Chapter 1: Introduction by Jörn Schuster -- Location and Geology -- Archaeological Background -- Mesolithic and Neolithic -- Bronze Age -- Iron Age -- Romano-British -- Anglo-Saxon -- Project Background and Research Aims -- Methods of Excavation and Recording -- Chapter 2: Prehistoric Evidence by Matt Leivers and Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Evidence for early prehistoric activity by Matt Leivers -- Neolithic features -- Beaker and Early Bronze Age features -- Barrow 1 -- Barrow 2 -- Barrow 3 -- Barrow 4 -- Barrow 5 -- Barrow 6 -- Discussion -- Middle Bronze Age -- Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age features -- Northern Enclosure -- Central Enclosure -- Southern Enclosure -- Mortuary Feature 2018 by Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Late Bronze Age: 11th-9th century cal BC -- Burial Pit 3666 -- Mortuary and other deposits external to Burial Pit 3666 .52 -- Late Early Iron Age: 5th century cal BC -- Pits -- Mortuary deposits -- Middle Iron Age: 4th-3rd century cal BC -- Pits -- Mortuary deposits -- Late Iron Age/Romano-British period (including features external to Mortuary Feature 2018) -- Natural features -- Chapter 3: Chronology and the Radiocarbon Dating Programme by Peter Marshall, Alistair J. Barclay, Alex Bayliss, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Gordon Cook, Pieter M. Grootes, John Meadows, and Johannes van der Plicht -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Sample selection -- Radiocarbon laboratory methods -- Results -- Calibration -- Stable isotopes -- Methodological approach -- Later prehistoric site chronology -- Samples and sequence -- Burial Pit 3666 and 'satellite' deposits -- Single graves and human bone deposits -- Midden Pit 2028 -- Northern Enclosure |
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Central Enclosure -- Southern Enclosure -- Human skull from pit 2834 -- Pit 3455 -- Late Bronze Age pottery -- Modelling and interpretation -- Mortuary Feature 2018 -- Late Bronze Age enclosures and Midden Pit 2028 -- Ceramic sequence and chronology -- Forms and decoration -- Discussion -- Fabrics -- Site chronology -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Human Bone and Mortuary Deposits by Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Methods -- Results -- Taphonomy and ancient modification -- Demographic data -- Minimum number of individuals -- Late Bronze Age -- Early Iron Age -- Middle Iron Age -- Late Iron Age-Romano-British -- Age and sex -- Metric and non-metric data -- Skeletal indices -- Pathology -- Dental disease -- Trauma -- Joint disease -- Infection -- Miscellaneous lesions -- Health status overview -- Isotopic investigation of residential mobility and diet by Andrew Millard -- Principles -- Materials -- Methods -- Sample preparation -- O-isotope analysis -- Sr-isotope analysis -- C-, and N-isotope analysis -- Statistical analysis -- Results and discussion -- Individual migrations -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Prehistoric Finds and Environmental Evidence -- Prehistoric pottery by Matt Leivers -- Methods -- Condition -- Fabrics -- Early and Middle Neolithic -- Beaker and Early Bronze Age -- Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age -- Manufacture, technological attributes and surface treatments -- Form -- Decoration -- Function and use -- Absolute dating and feature group assemblages -- Midden Pit 2028 -- Other feature group assemblages -- Discussion -- Fired clay by Matt Leivers -- Flint by Matt Leivers and Phil Harding -- Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic flint -- Early Bronze Age flint -- Central features -- Context (2888) group 215 by Phil Harding -- Ditches -- Redeposited material -- Discussion -- Late Bronze Age flint -- Raw material -- Technology |
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Major feature groups -- Discussion -- Animal bone by Jessica M. Grimm and L. Higbee -- Methods -- Animal bone from Mortuary Feature 2018 -- Late Bronze Age: 11th-9th century cal BC -- Early Iron Age: 5th century cal BC -- Middle Iron Age: 4th-3rd century cal BC -- Late Iron Age/Romano-British -- Animal bone from other prehistoric features -- Beaker and Early Bronze Age -- Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age -- Animal keeping in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age -- Ritual versus economic behaviours -- Bronze Age metalwork by Lorraine Mepham with Jörn Schuster -- A probable lead alloy weight from Burial Pit 3666 by Jörn Schuster -- Slag by Phil Andrews -- Analysis and metallography of ingots and metalworking waste by J. Peter Northover -- Sampling and analysis -- Compositions -- Microstructures -- Discussion -- Worked bone by Jessica M. Grimm with Jörn Schuster -- Raw material -- Tool types -- Distribution -- Discussion -- Worked stone by Kevin Hayward and Matt Leivers with Lorraine Mepham -- Discussion -- Environmental evidence charred and mineralised plant remains by Chris J. Stevens -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Wood charcoal by Catherine Barnett -- Methods -- Results -- Interpretation -- Pollen analysis of Midden Pit 2028 in the Northern Enclosure by Rob Scaife -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Soil Micromorphology of a buried soil in Midden Pit 2028 by Richard I. Macphail -- Samples and methods -- Results -- Discussion and conclusions -- Chapter 6: Discussion and Concluding Remarks by Stuart Needham, Jacqueline I. McKinley and Matt Leivers -- The site and its use in the Late Bronze, Early and Middle Iron Age by Matt Leivers -- Mortuary rites by Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Thanet: fulcrum of the north-western seaways by Stuart Needham -- The influence of the Early Bronze Age barrow group |
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The Late Bronze Age ritual system at Cliffs End -- The Late Bronze Age mortuary deposits and disarticulted human bones -- Resumption of mortuary activity in the Iron Age -- Continuity and recurrence -- The inter-regional connections implied by the human remains -- Late Bronze Age -- Early Iron Age -- Middle Iron Age -- The Cliffs End enclave in the 1st millennium BC -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery and Settlement by Jacqueline I. McKinley and Nick Stoodley -- Cemetery features by Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Grave catalogue -- Human remains -- Methods -- Results -- Taphonomy -- Demographic data -- Pathology -- Isotopic analysis by Andrew Millard -- Grave goods and cemetery discussion by Nick Stoodley with contributions by Talla Hopper and Jörn Schuster -- Grave goods -- Metalwork -- Weapons -- Personal equipment -- Beads by Talla Hopper -- Wooden cup/bowl by Jörn Schuster -- Cemetery discussion by Nick Stoodley -- Chronology of the cemetery and graves -- The wider burial rite -- Social identity -- Cemetery layout -- Non-cemetery features by Jacqueline I. McKinley -- Pits -- Ditches -- Cliffs End in the wider landscape by Nick Stoodley -- Conclusion -- Non-cemetery finds -- Metalwork from pits in the southern part of the site by Jörn Schuster -- Post-Roman pottery by Lorraine Mepham -- The assemblage -- Discussion -- Worked stone by Kevin Hayward and Matt Leivers -- Textile by Sharon Penton and Jacqui Watson -- Animal bone assemblage by Jessica M. Grimm and L. Higbee -- Taphonomy -- Results -- Worked bone by Jessica M. Grimm -- Environmental evidence -- Charred plant remains by Chris J. Stevens -- Results -- Discussion -- Wood charcoal by Catherine Barnett -- Results -- Interpretation -- Marine shell by Sarah F. Wyles -- Results -- Discussion -- Concluding remarks by Jacqueline I. McKinley and Jörn Schuster -- Epilogue -- Appendices |
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Appendix 1: Midden Pit 2028 layer and context number concordance -- Appendix 2: Prehistoric pottery fabric descriptions by Matt Leivers -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- Thanet
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Thanet (England) -- Antiquities
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England -- Thanet
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Leivers, Matt
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Schuster, Jörn
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Marshall, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781874350712 |
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187435071X |
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