Saturday 7th September 2024, 2 pm – 3.15 pm
Thoresby Room, Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 8BH
Annual joint meeting of the Prehistory Research Section and The Prehistoric Society in collaboration with Leeds City Museum.
In-person talk open to all:
Jake Rowland: ‘Beyond Symbols of Power: Life in Middle Neolithic grave goods in Eastern Yorkshire’
Jake Rowland is a PhD student at the University of Southampton working on reconstructing the life histories of Middle Neolithic grave goods. His research integrates technological, contextual and use-wear analysis to explore prehistoric technology, materiality, depositional practices and the relationships between people and objects.
The round barrows, flat graves and mortuary features of Eastern Yorkshire have yielded some of the largest and most elaborate Neolithic grave assemblages ever found in Britain. From the extraordinary array of axeheads, knives and arrowheads from Duggleby Howe, Whitegrounds and Ayton East Field, to more unusual objects; worked boar tusks, antler ‘maceheads’ and jet beads and ‘belt sliders’. But what were these objects used for? How did they function in Neolithic society? And what do their lives tells us about the people they were interred with and the communities that deposited them? This talk presents new evidence that challenges many of the previously held assumptions about these objects and places them within their broader context in Middle Neolithic Britain.
Booking required - book your free place:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/leeds/leeds-city-museum/archaeology-talk-beyond-symbols-of-power-life-in-middle-neolithic-grave-goods-in-eastern-yorkshire/2024-09-07/14:00/t-avmkrgr
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