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Status, Wealth and the Chronological Ordering of Cemeteries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2022

Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley*
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Department of Archaeology, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire RG6 2AA
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The study of grave goods plays a central role in two very different kinds of archaeology. As groups of artefacts that were deposited together, grave finds occupy a key position in chronological studies. At the same time, it is commonly supposed that the selection of artefacts for deposition with the dead may be some reflection of the social position that they had enjoyed in life; the contents of different graves may be studied for evidence of wealth and status. Although chronological studies have the longer history, these two types of analysis ought to be most informative where social variation can be traced over a lengthy sequence. As we shall see, this raises special problems.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , 1988 , pp. 327 - 329
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1988

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