| 单词 | urnfield |
| 释义 | > as lemmasurnfield urnfield n. a cemetery of individual cremation graves with remains in pottery urns, esp. as used by North European peoples from c1200 b.c. onwards; also attributive, esp. designating peoples using this rite or their cultures. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > types of prehistoric food vessel1866 stone-using1870 urnfield1889 hunter-gatherer1928 funnel-beaker1954 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > urn-cemetery urn-graveyard1888 urnfield1889 1889 Soc. Antiquaries, Notice of Meeting 5 Dec. Celtic Pottery from an ancient British urn-field. 1928 V. G. Childe in Antiquity 2 37 The later phases of the Bronze Age are marked by the spread of large cremation cemeteries generally termed urnfields. 1958 T. G. E. Powell Celts 38 The dead were generally cremated, and the broken bones placed in an urn for burial in a flat cemetery. Many of these cemeteries..have been called urnfields so that the descriptive labels ‘Urnfield Period’ and ‘Urnfield Culture’ have come into use. 1968 A. Powell Mil. Philosophers iv. 177 I walked up the road.., leaving them [sc. Welshmen] to move eastward towards the urnfields of their Bronze Age home. 1979 B. Cunliffe Celtic World 15/1 This period, generally referred to..as the Urnfield period, is typified by the appearance of large cremation cemeteries, the ashes of the dead interred in urns. The tradition took form in Hungary sometime in the thirteenth century B.C. and was rapidly adopted further west. < as lemmas |
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