Knowledge, Memory and Ancestrality
Creating and Communicating Knowledge in the British Iron Age
Keywords:
Funerary Landscape, Material Knowledge, Iron Age, East YorkshireAbstract
This paper invites us to consider the creation and transmission of knowledge in terms of its material manifestation through the study of archaeological contexts. Taking the Iron Age burials of East Yorkshire, in Britain, as a study case, the analysis demonstrates how certain bits of knowledge, identity and memory were created and passed through the centuries connecting different generations. The burials are discussed not as individual entities but as parts of a larger sum. This includes, for instance, different monuments incorporated by the cemeteries, and which often predate the Iron Age, as well as certain funerary performances and the possible relationships between some of the buried individuals in terms of their osteobiographies.
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