Remembering, forgetting and the invention of tradition: Burial and naturalplaces in the English Early Bronze Age

Authors
Mullin, D
Citation
D. Mullin, Remembering, forgetting and the invention of tradition: Burial and naturalplaces in the English Early Bronze Age, ANTIQUITY, 75(289), 2001, pp. 533-537
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Archeology
Journal title
ANTIQUITY
ISSN journal
0003598X → ACNP
Volume
75
Issue
289
Year of publication
2001
Pages
533 - 537
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-598X(200109)75:289<533:RFATIO>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
The author looks at construction and subsequent use-pattern of round barrow s in the Cheshire Basin. He argues that the use of natural mounds for buria l during the Early Bronze Age may be the result of mistaken identity, indic ating a forgetting of the past.