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ARCH Highland

24 February 2022, Starts: 19:30, Ends: 21:00

Grave Goods. Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain

Online talk by Professor Duncan Garrow (U. of Reading), organised by ARCH. Bookings via Eventbrite

This talk will provide an overview of the results of the recently-completed and published ‘Grave goods’ project – a research collaboration between Duncan Garrow (University of Reading), Melanie Giles (University of Manchester) and Neil Wilkin (British Museum). Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods. Objects from burials have long been central to how archaeologists have interpreted society at that time. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they also speak of the care shown to the dead by the living, and of people’s relationships with ‘things’.