jan 1, 2298 BC - Amesbury (archer grave)
Description:
Amesbury (archer grave), UK (The Human Past, 416, fig. 12.35).
-Rich grave
-> first gold in Britain
- Originated from the Alpine region in c.EU
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"Amesbury, UK: archer grave. Most richly furnished beaker grave in Britain. Grave pit contained skeleton man accompanied by archer equipment> demonstrates interregional contacts characteristics of beaker culture> man lived as child in mainland EU, died in Britain."(Anna- Feline)
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About the finds:
"The Archer's grave yielded the greatest number of artefacts ever found in a burial from this period (the Early Bronze Age) in Britain. Among those discovered were: five funerary pots of the type associated with the Beaker culture; three tiny copper knives; sixteen barbed flint arrowheads; a kit of flint-knapping and metalworking tools, including cushion stones that functioned as a kind of portable anvil and that suggest he was a coppersmith; and some boar's tusks. On his forearm was a black stone wrist-guard. A similar red wrist-guard was by his knees. With the second wrist-guard was a shale belt ring and a pair of gold hair ornaments, the earliest gold objects ever found in England."
(found close by Stonehenge)
Added to timeline:
World Archaeology - Europe. Mesolithic to the Iron age
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