Things in the North

Semple, Sarah; Sanmark, Alexandra; Iversen, Frode; Mehler, Natascha; Hobæk, Halldis; Ødegaard, Marie; Skinner, Alexis Tudor

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“…Semple et al . 2020; Moore & Fernández-Götz 2022). The following sections highlight two areas where dialogue may challenge assumptions about linear earthworks within periods of similar social complexity.…”

Section: A Comparative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Coinage, burial rites and material culture suggest a less fixed hierarchy and instead greater connections through clientage and kinship (Creighton 2000; Reynolds 2019) enacted at assemblies (Semple et al . 2020). Both periods, however, also bore witness to social coalescence, often framed as state or kingdom formation, rendering monumental linear earthworks as potential reflections of large-scale political formations.…”

Section: A Comparative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Crossing Crawford's conceptual divide: monumental linear earthworks in later prehistoric and early medieval Britain

Moore,

Reynolds,

Garland

et al. 2023

Antiquity

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In its early decades, Antiquity regularly featured the subject of linear earthworks that criss-cross the British landscape. Subsequently, however, discussion has been largely relegated to period-specific and local journals. As a result, interpretations of these imposing but often poorly dated earthworks have been drawn in the contrasting research traditions of later prehistory and the early medieval period. Here, the authors propose a comparative dialogue as a means for reinterpreting these landscape features, and as a lens through which to explore social complexity. Combined with advances in archaeometrical dating, this new approach promises to reinvigorate the study of some of Britain's largest archaeological monuments.

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Section: A Comparative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Comparative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%