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Author:   Richard Bradley
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781785704772

ISBN 10:   178570477
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   31 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter One    Beginning again   Chapter Two  A chapter of accidents  The Broadward hoard  The Mästermyr hoard  Reassessments  Bridges and troubled waters Iron Age deposits at La Tène Roman artefacts from the Rhine near Mainz Reassessments Literary sources  Ritual and non-ritual, religious and secular deposits  The ubiquity of water Hidden in plain sight   Chapter Three    Faultlines in contemporary research  Chronological faultlines  Controversy and uncertainty  The sources of confusion  Unfinished business  The next stage   Chapter Four Proportional representation  The variety of deposits  Excavations at two spring deposits  Excavations at other wetland deposits  Excavations at dryland deposits  A question of scale  A question of time  Summary   Chapter five The hoard as a still life  Pronkstillevens  Accumulations  Display  Summary and conclusions   Chapter Six The nature of things  Technologies and myths  Stone and metal  Metals   Chapter Seven A kind of regeneration  The final act  Whole and undamaged artefacts  Incomplete or damaged artefacts  Friendly fire  Fragmentation  Weights  Numbers  the last act   Chapter 8 Vanishing point  Sinking treasures  Giving and taking  Artefacts with attitude  Profiting from loss  Exquisite corpses   Chapter Nine A guide to strange places  Naming places  Going under  Going forward  Northern lights  Southern comforts  A note of caution   Chapter 10 Thresholds and transitions  Introduction  Bridges, fords and causeways  Other kinds of boundaries  River names and their associations  The character of water  The character of mountains  The earth compels  A final reflection

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What [ Bradley ] has offered, in this relatively slim publication, is a wealth of challenging and inspirational ideas. A Geography of Offerings has been written to provoke a debate. Let us hope that debate is just as fruitful as this thoughtful catalyst. --John Manley Current Archaeology, Issue 326. May 2017

Author Information

Richard Bradley is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Reading University and an Honorary Research Associate in the School of Archaeology at Oxford. Recent publications include: Maritime Archaeology on Dry Land (2022), Temporary Palaces (2021), A Comparative Study of Rock Art in Later Prehistoric Europe (2020), The Prehistory of Britain and Europe (revised edition 2019), and A Geography of Offerings (2016).

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