Taming the Wild:

Cotton, Jonathan; Elsden, Nicholas; Pipe, Alan; Rayner, Louise

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“…At Holloway Lane (London), a hoard includes six barbed-and-tanged arrowheads, made by covering retouch, and parts of an aurochs (thought to be an endangered species at that time in Britain). This symbolic hoard highlights a symbolism around hunting (Cotton et al 2006).…”

Section: Britainmentioning

confidence: 93%

Habitus? The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation

Müller¹

2019

Scales of Transformation

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The problem of the social dimension of technology and transformation seen in the perspective of the habitus has been repeatedly undertaken in various works. However, the complexity of these phenomena causes subsequent attempts to be presented and explained again in new contexts, bringing interesting observations. The edited volume aims to contribute to our better understanding of a system of embodied dispositions hidden under the term ‘habitus’. This will be achieved by presenting the latest studies in the social dimension of technology and transformation. These studies mainly cover the areas of Europe from Scandinavia to Italy and to the Balkans and from the British Isles to the Ukraine and to the North Caucasus. In one case, ethnoarchaeological field studies were conducted in distant Indonesia, but they are used to interpret the Hallstatt Culture in Europe. In the chronological dimension, they include the time from the Neolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age. Among the topics discussed are rock art, Trypillian megasites, stone axes and adzes, metallurgy, wagons, archery items, pottery produced on a fast wheel, mechanisms of cultural genesis, dualistic social systems and comments on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice, including the concept of habitus. The volume Habitus, the social dimension of technology and transformation is intended for international academia, representing an important set of information and interpretations for all archaeologists and readers interested in European prehistory.

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Section: Britainmentioning

confidence: 93%

Habitus? The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation

Müller¹

2019

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“…This is not, however, to minimise the social value of hunting in these societies: hunting was primarily a prestigious practice, rather than just a strategy for obtaining food. In the exceptional find from Holloway Lane (London), different parts of one aurochs were deposited together with six fine barbed-and-tanged arrowheads (Cotton et al 2006), indicating a kind of ritualised prestigious hunting. However, some barbed-and-tanged arrowheads have also clearly been used in human combat, as noted above.…”

Section: Arrows Of Hunting War and Powermentioning

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Arrows of Power from Brittany to Denmark (2500–1700 BC)

Nicolas¹

2017

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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This article presents a comparative study of the arrowheads found in graves dating to between 2500 BC and 1700bcin north-west France, southern Britain and Denmark. The aim is to characterise their modes of production and functions during a period which successively sees the introduction of copper then bronze metallurgy, the former accompanying the appearance of Bell Beaker pottery and associated practices in these areas. Several modes of production are proposed, from individual manufacture by Bell Beaker-using warriors to specialist production for elite use during the Early Bronze Age. Over and above their function as weapons – arguably associated more with interpersonal combat than with hunting – arrowheads served to portray and emphasise the social status of the individuals. In the case of the Early Bronze Age Armorican arrowheads, they should be regarded as ‘sacred’ objects, made for display and enhancing the power of the chiefs. Lastly, arrows are placed in the broader perspective of major trends affecting Europe during the Bell Beaker period and then the Early Bronze Age, while the distribution of arrowheads with slanted barbs suggests the operation of an Atlantic cultural complex.

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“…These nonetheless resonate with the widely cited aurochs pit-deposit at Holloway Lane, west London (Cotton et al . 2006). Essentially dated to the Early Bronze Age on the basis of its flintwork, there six barbed-and-tanged arrowheads accompanied the largely complete, but dismembered, carcass of a young aurochs in the base of the feature, which together is held to have been a ritual deposit 4…”

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Disappearance Beyond Recall: A Social Context for Bronze Age Aurochs Extinction in Britain?

Evans¹

2015

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The interest which attaches to the history of extinct British animals can only be equalled by the regret which must be felt, by all true naturalists, at their disappearance beyond recall from our fauna (Harting 1880, 3; emphasis added).The implications of pit-deposits containing aurochs/Bos primigenius skulls dating to the Bronze Age, found in two recent excavations in Bedfordshire are outlined. Involving a review of related findings in south-eastern England, these serve as a platform to consider the dynamics of aurochs extinction, which is held to have occurred in Britain by the middle–later centuries of the 2nd millennium bc. It should be stressed that, although consulting many ‘expert’ colleagues, this paper is not written from a faunal remains-specialist perspective. It is essentially discursive and primarily intended to highlight a significant site-recovery trend. It reflects, moreover, on issues of broad social relevance. Holocene human-induced extinctions have both an inherent curiosity and poignancy. Indeed now, faced with currently threatened mass-species loss, they can even involve – beyond regret – a sense of cumulative guilt.

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Taming the Wild:

Cited by 6 publications

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Habitus? The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation

Habitus? The Social Dimension of Technology and Transformation

Arrows of Power from Brittany to Denmark (2500–1700 BC)

Disappearance Beyond Recall: A Social Context for Bronze Age Aurochs Extinction in Britain?

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