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Remembering, forgetting and the invention of tradition: burial and natural places in the English Early Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Mullin
David Mullin*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UU, England, [email protected]
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Abstract

The author looks at construction and subsequent use-pattern of round barrows in the Cheshire Basin. He argues that the use of natural mounds for burial during the Early Bronze Age may be the result of mistaken identity, indicating a forgetting of the past.

Keywords

Cheshire Basinround barrowsEarly Bronze Agepersistence of memorysecondary burial
Type
News & Notes
Information
Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 289 , September 2001 , pp. 533 - 537
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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