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2024
Journal article
Materializing mortality: Re‐enchanting grave goods in the British Museum using mixed‐method approaches to audience research
Grave goods are among the most common, but at the same time most powerful, objects on display in many museums. They possess the rare—often latent—ability to convey both particular universal themes and to collapse chronological and cultural differences by connecting the shared embodiment of museum visitors and past people. To...Wilkin, Neil ; Cecilia, Rafie ; Wexler, Jennifer ; Giles, Melanie ; Garrow, Duncan
ethics of display, prehistory, human remains, grave goods, and audience research
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2022
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Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain
Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights...Cooper, Anwen ; Garrow, Duncan ; Gibson, Catriona ; Giles, Melanie ; Wilkin, Neil