Madgwick, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-3566 and Mulville, Jacqui ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9392-3693 2015. Feasting on fore-limbs: Conspicuous consumption and identity in later prehistoric Britain. Antiquity 89 (345) , pp. 629-644. 10.15184/aqy.2015.24 |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.24
Abstract
The discovery in Llanmaes, South Wales, of a large midden dating from the Early Iron Age provided an opportunity to deepen our understanding of feasting in late prehistoric Britain. But the dominance of right fore-limbs of pigs in the faunal assemblage has raised questions about the social processes represented by this activity. The evidence suggests a move away from conspicuous consumption by an Early Iron Age elite towards a more community-focused event designed to galvanise social relations at a time when the breakdown of bronze exchange networks was challenging the social order.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | History, Archaeology and Religion |
Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
ISSN: | 0003-598X |
Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2022 09:28 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/65962 |
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