Why Does Lindow Man Matter

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12911446
AutoresRonald Hutton (Aspen Institute, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas135-148
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime and Mind (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-696X • E-ISSN: 1751-6978
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/175169711x12961583765171
OpenAlexW2014932038
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas14

The discovery of part of a human body at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, in 1984, provided Britain with an equivalent to the famous “'bog bodies” of Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia, and its subsequent careful forensic analysis appeared to furnish valuable insights into the nature of Iron Age ritual practices. In particular, it served strongly to reinforce the belief that those practices contained a significant component of human sacrifice. Although not wholly without controversy, this interpretation has until recently remained the norm in general surveys of Iron Age or “'Celtic” religious attitudes and activities in Britain or northwestern Europe. During the 2000s it became appreciated that the evidence was a great deal more complex and open-ended than this orthodoxy acknowledged. “Lindow Man” has at least as much to tell us about the state of the discipline of archaeology at the opening of the twenty-first century, and the choices open to it, as he does about British prehistory

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bog · Celtic languages · Ethnology · Interpretation (philosophy · Orthodoxy · Prehistory · Sacrifice · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Philosophy