Transformation through destruction
Subtitle: a monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen
By: edited by D. Fontijn, S. van der Vaart & R. Jansen
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9789088901027
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Hallstatt period; Burial; Tombs; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities
Description: Over a 1000 tiny bronze artefacts were found alongside the remains of a man in a Dutch barrow that was excavated in laboratory conditions. The objects had been dismantled and taken apart, all to be destroyed by fire in what appears to have been a pars pro toto burial. In essence, a person and a place were being transformed through destruction. 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. This Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-336).
Table of contents: title: The last mound(s) of Zevenbergen : cause, aims, and methods of the 2007 fieldwork campaign  -- David Fontijn and Richard Jansen; title: The physical and archaeological landscape of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrow group  -- Richard Jansen and Cristian van der Linde; title: "Mound" 6 : a post and ditch aligned long barrow  -- Patrick Valentijn; title: Excavating the seventh mound  -- David Fontijn, Richard Jansen, Quentin Bourgeois and Cristian van der Linde; title: The central find assemblage of mound 7  -- Sasja van der Vaart, David Fontijn and Patrick Valentijn; title: The urn, bone, and iron from the central find assemblage in mound 7  -- David Fontijn, Richard Jansen and Sasja van der Vaart; title: Dismantled, transformed, and deposited : prehistoric bronze from the centre of mound 7  -- David Fontijn and Sasja van der Vaart; title: Conservation starts in the field : the retrieval and conservation of the finds from Oss-Zevenbergen -- Jo Kempkens; title: Bronze studs : colouring, reconstruction, and conservation  -- Janneke Nienhuis, Jilt Sietsma, David Fontijn, Ineke Joosten and Joris Dik; title: The local vegetation at the time of the construction of the Oss-Zevenbergen mounds 7 and 6  -- Corrie Bakels and Yvonne Achterkamp with a contribution by Pauline van Rijn; title: An attempt to chemically identify the organic material inside the bronze studs from mound 7 using DT-MS  -- T.F.M. Oudemans; title: Analysis of the cremated bone from mound 7  -- Liesbeth Smits; title: A secondary burial in mound 7 : a macabre reuse of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrows in the Late Medieval Period  -- Richard Jansen and Liesbeth Smits; title: Mesolithic finds in an Iron Age barrow  -- Alexander Verpoorte; title: Excavating the surroundings of the Oss-Zevenbergen mounds (6 and 7) -- Richard Jansen and Ivo van Wijk; title: Conclusion, the seventh mound of seven mounds : long-term history of the Zevenbergen barrow landscape  -- David Fontijn, Richard Jansen, Sasja van der Vaart, Harry Fokkens and Ivo van Wijk; title: Preserving and presenting the mounds and finds of Oss-Zevenbergen -- Richard Jansen, Luc Amkreutz and Sasja van der Vaart.