Out-of-time’ Objects

Commemorating and Forgetting Traditions through Bronze Age Metalwork in Southern Britain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6043798
AutoresMichelle G Knight (0000-0001-6880-4417, National Museums Scotland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen35
Número3
Páginas401-417
Fecha de publicación2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0959774325000034
OpenAlexW4407831449
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas35

Earlier objects are frequently identified in later contexts, though rarely form the focus of discussion. This paper presents 34 sites where earlier Bronze Age metalwork has been found in later Bronze Age contexts in southern Britain, including hoards and non-hoard contexts. These ‘out-of-time’ objects follow complex trajectories and can inform us about the potential ways past societies conceived their own pasts, especially when contextualized in broader integrated landscapes. Out-of-time objects might be deposited singly or within hoards to reinforce community boundaries and legitimize links with past communities. The form, wear and treatment of these objects pre-deposition (e.g. curation and/or deformation) as well as the places in which they were buried represent indicators of prehistoric processes of commemoration and/or forgetting

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Forgetting · Geography · Hoard · Prehistory · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology