Feasting on fore-limbs: Conspicuous consumption and identity in later prehistoric Britain

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

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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
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	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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