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Cooking, gathering and feasting Interpreting and contextualizing bronze and iron age cooking pits... more Cooking, gathering and feasting Interpreting and contextualizing bronze and iron age cooking pits cooking pits, bronze age, iron age, extraordinary preparation of food, prehistoric boundaries, feasting, gatherings, linear structures Known for more than a hundred years, pits with fire cracked stones form features predominantly linked to northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. Yet younger studies bring a much wider distribution to proof, reaching from southern France in the south to Norway in the north and from the Netherlands in the west to Poland in the east. Despite some region-specific developments, specific characteristics in morphology, stratigraphy, chronology and distribution of features on the findspots give evidence of an interrelated phenomenon. Chronologically the features are predominantly known from the younger Bronze Age / Urnfield Period to the Iron Age, albeit growing numbers of excavations and modern dating methods shift the beginning of the phenomenon towards period III in the northern area of distribution. In the southern parts-especially in Switzerland and southwestern Germany-early features are known from Middle Bronze Age contexts. Doubts are hardly cast on interpretations as cooking pits, yet the quantity of features on the findspots as well as the regulated arrangements of cooking pits put them in rather non-commonplace contexts. The indifferent contexts in which cooking pits are attested makes it difficult to reconstruct a single social frame they can be correlated with. Some studies, predominantly concerning linear arrangements of cooking pits, show connections to linear boundaries within the prehistoric landscape. Some random cooking pit concentrations seem to occur in similar contexts, still the source material is too indifferent to make definite assertions. Up to now cooking pits seem to have been erected on different occasions, potentially when a great number of individuals had to be supplied with food. This could have been a part of events like feasts, ancestor cults, burial ceremonies, gatherings or within seasonal activities.
Rezension zu: Juliane Stadler,Nahrung für die Toten? Speisebeigaben in hallstattzeitlichen Gräber... more Rezension zu: Juliane Stadler,Nahrung für die Toten? Speisebeigaben in hallstattzeitlichen Gräbern und ihre kulturhistorische Deutung. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 186. Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2010. 226 Seiten mit 51 schwarzweißen Abbildungen und 22 Tabellen
Cooking, gathering and feasting Interpreting and contextualizing bronze and iron age cooking pits... more Cooking, gathering and feasting Interpreting and contextualizing bronze and iron age cooking pits cooking pits, bronze age, iron age, extraordinary preparation of food, prehistoric boundaries, feasting, gatherings, linear structures Known for more than a hundred years, pits with fire cracked stones form features predominantly linked to northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. Yet younger studies bring a much wider distribution to proof, reaching from southern France in the south to Norway in the north and from the Netherlands in the west to Poland in the east. Despite some region-specific developments, specific characteristics in morphology, stratigraphy, chronology and distribution of features on the findspots give evidence of an interrelated phenomenon. Chronologically the features are predominantly known from the younger Bronze Age / Urnfield Period to the Iron Age, albeit growing numbers of excavations and modern dating methods shift the beginning of the phenomenon towards period III in the northern area of distribution. In the southern parts-especially in Switzerland and southwestern Germany-early features are known from Middle Bronze Age contexts. Doubts are hardly cast on interpretations as cooking pits, yet the quantity of features on the findspots as well as the regulated arrangements of cooking pits put them in rather non-commonplace contexts. The indifferent contexts in which cooking pits are attested makes it difficult to reconstruct a single social frame they can be correlated with. Some studies, predominantly concerning linear arrangements of cooking pits, show connections to linear boundaries within the prehistoric landscape. Some random cooking pit concentrations seem to occur in similar contexts, still the source material is too indifferent to make definite assertions. Up to now cooking pits seem to have been erected on different occasions, potentially when a great number of individuals had to be supplied with food. This could have been a part of events like feasts, ancestor cults, burial ceremonies, gatherings or within seasonal activities.
Rezension zu: Juliane Stadler,Nahrung für die Toten? Speisebeigaben in hallstattzeitlichen Gräber... more Rezension zu: Juliane Stadler,Nahrung für die Toten? Speisebeigaben in hallstattzeitlichen Gräbern und ihre kulturhistorische Deutung. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 186. Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2010. 226 Seiten mit 51 schwarzweißen Abbildungen und 22 Tabellen