The amesbury archer and the boscombe bowmen
(2013)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Wessex Archaeology, 2013
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781874350637 (electronic bk.) MWT13389620, 1874350639 (electronic bk.) 13389620
LANGUAGE
English
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Found a few kilometres from Stonehenge, the graves of the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen date to the 24th century BC and are two of the earliest Bell Beaker graves in Britain. The Boscombe Bowmen is a collective burial and the Amesbury Archer is a single burial but isotope analyses suggest that both were the graves of incomers to Wessex. The objects placed in both graves have strong continental connections and the metalworking tool found in the grave of the Amesbury Archer may explain why his mourners afforded him one of the most well-furnished burials yet found in Europe. This excavation report contains a series of wide-ranging studies and scientific analyses by an array of experts and a discussion of the graves within their British and continental European contexts

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