Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined
Melton, Nigel; Montgomery, Janet; Knüsel, Christopher J.; et al.Batt, Catherine M.; Needham, Stuart; Pearson, Mike Parker; Sheridan, Alison; Heron, Carl; Horsley, Tim; Schmidt, Armin; Evans, Adrian; Carter, Elizabeth; Edwards, Howell; Hargreaves, Michael; Janaway, Rob; Lynnerup, Niels; Northover, Peter; O'Connor, Sonia; Ogden, Alan; Taylor, Timothy; Wastling, Vaughan; Wilson, Andrew
Date: 1 September 2010
Journal
Antiquity
Publisher
Antiquity Publications
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Abstract
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the fill armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man ...
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the fill armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same as before: a local big man buried looking out to sea. Modern analytical techniques can create a person more real, more human and more securely anchored in history. This research team shows how.
Archaeology and History
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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