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Duggleby Howe Revisited
Author(s) -
Loveday Roy
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0092.00153
Subject(s) - seriation (archaeology) , archaeology , sequence (biology) , history , reading (process) , range (aeronautics) , population , geography , linguistics , demography , engineering , philosophy , biology , sociology , genetics , aerospace engineering
Duggleby Howe alone exhibits the full range of burial practices that characterize the British Later Neolithic. It has therefore been central to their seriation. Yet a re‐reading of Mortimer’s text suggests that a prolonged sequence for the burials in the mound is unlikely. Since this includes cremations held to characterize the Final Neolithic, consideration must be given to the circumstances which might generate such a large mortuary population and lead to their quite different treatment.