Honey fetch me a cool beer from the fridge! Comfortable living in Iron Age Wales
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Interpretierte Eisenzeiten 8: Tagungsbeiträge der 8. Linzer Gespräche zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchäologie. Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, 2019. p. 101-114 (Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich; Vol. 49).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Honey fetch me a cool beer from the fridge!
T2 - Interpreted Iron Ages 8
AU - Karl, Raimund
PY - 2019/12/20
Y1 - 2019/12/20
N2 - Roundhouse reconstructions are traditionally minimalistic, especially where their construction and furnishing is concerned: they have trampled dirt floors, the huge roof space remains unused, and there are only a few and mostly shabbily constructed furnishings. Even the most basic roundhouses attested in the ethnographic record – often pauper’s dwellings – tend to be at least as, if not much more fancy than that. Comparing the results from our excavations at Meillionydd with evidence recently collected by Harold Mytum during his excavations of ‘his’ roundhouse reconstructions during their rebuilding at Castell Henllys, it is demonstrated that the archaeological record of Iron Age roundhouse differs considerably from that created by these modern ‘minimalistic’ reconstructions. Comfortable Iron Age living in Wales may well have been much more comparable to modern ‘glamping’ (glamorous camping holidays) experiences than to the comfort offered by ‘scientific’ reconstructions.
AB - Roundhouse reconstructions are traditionally minimalistic, especially where their construction and furnishing is concerned: they have trampled dirt floors, the huge roof space remains unused, and there are only a few and mostly shabbily constructed furnishings. Even the most basic roundhouses attested in the ethnographic record – often pauper’s dwellings – tend to be at least as, if not much more fancy than that. Comparing the results from our excavations at Meillionydd with evidence recently collected by Harold Mytum during his excavations of ‘his’ roundhouse reconstructions during their rebuilding at Castell Henllys, it is demonstrated that the archaeological record of Iron Age roundhouse differs considerably from that created by these modern ‘minimalistic’ reconstructions. Comfortable Iron Age living in Wales may well have been much more comparable to modern ‘glamping’ (glamorous camping holidays) experiences than to the comfort offered by ‘scientific’ reconstructions.
KW - Archaeology
KW - Wales
KW - Iron Age
KW - Settlement
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783854743507
T3 - Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich
SP - 101
EP - 114
BT - Interpretierte Eisenzeiten 8
PB - Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum
Y2 - 15 November 2018 through 17 November 2018
ER -