The Walking Dead: Cross-Channel connections and Funerary Practices c. 1600-1200 BC

Benjamin Roberts (1) , Katy Cormack , Valérie Delattre (2) , Isabelle Legoff (2) , Cyril Marcigny (3, 2) , Rebecca Peake (4, 2) , Edward Caswell (1)

1 Durham University
2 Inrap - Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives
3 CReAAH - Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire
4 ARTeHiS - Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés [Dijon]

The Middle /early Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1200 BC) in the cross-channel region is invariably understood through the many close connections evidenced by new metal technologies and object types. These relationships tend to be interpreted as either continuities or developments from Early Bronze Age (c. 2200-1600 BC) cross-channel communities. However, whilst scholarship on the cross-channel connections between Early Bronze Age communities has tended to focus on funerary practices, there been no recent or comparable re-evaluation of cross-channel Middle /Late Bronze Age funerary practices. This paper draws upon a comprehensive dataset of all funerary sites in southern Britain and northern France in order to investigate questions of regionality and the dead.

Keywords: funerary archaeology; Bronze age; Britain; France

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Archaeology and Prehistory

Benjamin Roberts, Katy Cormack, Valérie Delattre, Isabelle Legoff, Cyril Marcigny, et al.. The Walking Dead: Cross-Channel connections and Funerary Practices c. 1600-1200 BC. Exploring the World’s Prehistory, XVIIIe congrès mondial de l’Union internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques (UISPP), Union internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques (UISPP), Jun 2018, Paris, France. ⟨hal-02092725⟩