Booth, TJ;
Chamberlain, AT;
Pearson, MP;
(2015)
Mummification in Bronze Age Britain.
Antiquity
, 89
(347)
pp. 1155-1173.
10.15184/aqy.2015.111.
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Abstract
Intentional mummification is a practice usually associated with early Egyptian or Peruvian societies, but new evidence suggests that it may also have been widespread in prehistoric Britain, and possibly in Europe more generally. Following the discovery of mummified Bronze Age skeletons at the site of Cladh Hallan in the Western Isles of Scotland, a method of analysis has been developed that can consistently identify previously mummified skeletons. The results demonstrate that Bronze Age populations throughout Britain practised mummification on a proportion of their dead, although the criteria for selection are not yet certain.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mummification in Bronze Age Britain |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2015.111 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.111 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2015 |
| Keywords: | Britain, Cladh Hallan, Bronze Age, mummification, bone histology, treatment of the dead |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473823 |
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