A stone bead from flagstones, Dorchester: evidence for middle neolithic textile adornment
A stone bead from flagstones, Dorchester: evidence for middle neolithic textile adornment
Recent reanalysis of the cremation burials from the Flagstones enclosure, Dorchester has revealed one deposit, from ditch segment 16, was associated with a single small limestone bead. Although beads have been associated with a small number of Neolithic inhumation burials, this find presents the first Neolithic cremation burial in Britain to be accompanied by an artefact of this type. This paper presents a biographical analysis of this object and discusses the find within its broader Middle Neolithic context. Use-wear analysis has revealed the bead had a long use-life prior to deposition and provides the earliest, securely dated evidence for the adornment of textiles and leatherwork in Neolithic Britain.
Cremation, Bead, Microwear, Use-wear, Neolithic, Middle Neolithic
71-77
Rowland, Jake T.
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2023
Rowland, Jake T.
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Rowland, Jake T.
(2023)
A stone bead from flagstones, Dorchester: evidence for middle neolithic textile adornment.
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 144, .
Abstract
Recent reanalysis of the cremation burials from the Flagstones enclosure, Dorchester has revealed one deposit, from ditch segment 16, was associated with a single small limestone bead. Although beads have been associated with a small number of Neolithic inhumation burials, this find presents the first Neolithic cremation burial in Britain to be accompanied by an artefact of this type. This paper presents a biographical analysis of this object and discusses the find within its broader Middle Neolithic context. Use-wear analysis has revealed the bead had a long use-life prior to deposition and provides the earliest, securely dated evidence for the adornment of textiles and leatherwork in Neolithic Britain.
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Published date: 2023
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Cremation, Bead, Microwear, Use-wear, Neolithic, Middle Neolithic
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