Alex Gibson

New Criteria for the Identification of Animal Fats Preserved in Archaeological Pottery

R.P. Evershed, H.R. Mottram, S.N. Dudd, S. Charters, A.W. Stott,G.J. LawrenceOrganic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, Cantock’s Close,University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UKA.M. GibsonClwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust, 7a Church Street, Welshpool Powys,SY21 7DL, UKA. ConnerCambridgeshire County Council Archaeology Unit, Fulbourne CommunityCentre, Haggis Gap, Fulbourne, Cambridge, CB1 5HD, UKP.W. BlinkhornOxford Archaeological Unit, Janus House, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES, UKV. ReevesCentral Archaeological Services, English Heritage, Fort Cumberland,Fort Cumberland Road, Eastney, Portsmouth, PO4 9LD, UK

Compound-specific stable carbon isotopic detection of pig product processing in British Late Neolithic pottery

By extracting lipids from potsherds and determining the d13C of the most abundant fatty acids, degraded fats from ruminant animals, such as cattle, and non-ruminant animals, such as pigs, can be distinguished. The authors use this phenomenon to investigate Late Neolithic pig exploitation and find that the pig �signature� was more frequently found among residues from Grooved Ware than other prehistoric pottery types.

Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet

Abstract The appearance of the distinctive ‘Beaker package’ marks an important horizon in British prehistory, but was it associated with immigrants to Britain or with indigenous converts? Analysis of the skeletal remains of 264 individuals from the British Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age is revealing new information about the diet, migration and mobility of those buried with Beaker pottery and related material. Results indicate a considerable degree of mobility between childhood and death, but mostly within Britain rather than from Europe. Both migration and emulation appear to have had an important role in the adoption and spread of the Beaker package.

The timber circle at Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled, Welshpool, Powys: ritual and sacrifice in Bronze Age mid-Wales

A circle of pits from the Welsh borders is another addition to the curious catalogue of British ceremonial monuments of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, and provides – as often before – intriguing clues as to how it was structured and used.

Recent Research at Duggleby Howe, North Yorkshire

Excavated by John Mortimer at the end of the nineteenth century, Duggleby Howe, near the source of the Gypsey Race in the Yorkshire Wolds, is one of the most iconic round barrow sites of the British Neolithic, not least because of Mortimers detailed description, his schematic section and the range of prestige goods associated with the burials. Despite the re-assessment of Mortimers archive by other authorities over the last twenty years, no absolute dates existed for this important burial sequence. This project re-examines not just the burial evidence, but also the associated earthworks of the barrow including the first geophysical and topographical survey of the surrounding causewayed enclosure. The report also provides a radiocarbon-dated chronology for the burial sequence and mound construction, as well as an assessment of the surviving human and faunal remains.

Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure at Lower Luggy, near Welshpool, Powys, Wales

Excavation at a cropmark enclosure in the Upper Severn Valley was undertaken to try and obtain material from which to provide relative and absolute dating for the site. Lying within an area rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology and in close proximity to a proven long barrow, the conventional later prehistoric date postulated for the enclosure was questioned. Excavation proved the site to have been a ditched enclosure with internal bank and a possible gate structure. Post-pits ran inside the bank. Finds were few but radiocarbon dates from the floor of the ditch proved the early Neolithic credentials of the monument which seemed to have continued in use for at least some 500 years.

Report on the Excavation at the Duggleby Howe Causewayed Enclosure, North Yorkshire, May—July 2009

The Neolithic round barrow at Duggleby Howe comprises a substantial mound surrounded by a large causewayed ditch. The mound covers a rich Middle Neolithic burial sequence, as revealed by Mortimers nineteenth-century excavations, and occupies a position on the northern valley side of the Gypsey Race, near to the streams source. Following the recent radiocarbon dating of the burial sequence and primary mound building, a small research excavation was undertaken across the ditch of the large, penannular causewayed enclosure that surrounds the mound primarily in order to obtain artefactual and ecofactual material from which to construct a relative and absolute chronology for the ditch sequence(s).

New Dates for Sarn-y-bryn-caled, Powys, Wales

The timber circle and other sites within the Sarn-y-bryn-caled ritual complex were excavated in advance of the construction of the Welshpool bypass and published in this journal in 1994 (Gibson 1994). The radiocarbon dating undertaken at the time relied totally on charcoal and, in the case of site 1 (the timber circle) and site 2 (a small panannular ring ditch), oak charcoal was the only available material. At the time, it was not possible to date cremated bone but now with this facility at our disposal, it seemed appropriate to redate these two important sites to check the existing dating and refine that dating if possible.

A Cornish vessel from farthest Kent

Trevisker pottery is a common Bronze Age type in Cornwall and the southwest of England. It is often well-made and with a distinct petrology. It was, however, traded in prehistory with some petrologically similar vessels being found in Brittany and northern France. Recently, a Cornish-style vessel made from Cornish clays has been located in eastern Kent, almost 500 km from its source.

Engaging with the dead: exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body

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