La parure en métal de l’âge du Bronze moyen atlantique. (XVe – XIVe siècles avant notre ère)

Abstract

number of completely excavated examples. Ray and Thomas describe different buildings at Dorstone Hill which in turn develop into different forms of long mounds. They interpret this as evidence of different lineages coming together to create different versions of the shift from house to mound. Kenny, in her contribution, provides a specific example of direct connection between the evolving architecture of Trefignath chambered tomb and the house at Parc Cybi. House and tomb were connected in ongoing relationship as they both shared an alignment related to spring sunrise. By contrast, Smyth describes a different example of connections between an earlier house and a long mound at Ballyglass. Here there was no common alignment and it is likely that the ultimate form of the court tomb was related to the needs of the living rather than being a house for the dead. Healy uses her final discussion chapter to make the point that the variety of ways that the earlier chapters find to evaluate the differences and connections between houses and tombs may be the result of underlying principles of communal labour, communal gatherings and indeed common technologies. More broadly, connections of form or practice between tombs and houses can be seen to be meaningful but were rarely formulaic. The strength of this volume lies in the way that these local, contingent histories are brought out so that the kind of principles to which Healy refers can be appreciated.