The beaker from Cist 2. [Image: AOC Archaeology]
Posted on 02/24/2020 4:22:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Recent excavations at Lewiston by AOC Archaeology revealed over 35 Neolithic pits arranged in six broad clusters. These contained broken Carinated Bowls, flint and quartz flakes, coarse stone tools, and finer flint tools, mixed in with burnt cereals and hazelnut shells. Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates obtained from hazelnuts and wood charcoal demonstrates that activity associated with the pits was short-lived, spanning less than 40 years between 3661 cal BC and 3532 cal BC -- a period within the transition between the early and middle Neolithic...
The site -- which lies close to the western shore of Loch Ness -- has also yielded evidence for six Bronze Age burials (five cists and one pit-grave), located in a rough linear arrangement measuring c.300m long across a slight rise. While only two of the cists were completely intact and human remains survived in only one, phosphate analysis of acid soils in the second intact cist and the pit-grave confirmed that human remains had once been present. Two Beaker pots, an all-over-decorated bowl, a stone wristguard, and a plano-convex flint knife were recovered from the burials.
Radiocarbon dating of the human remains and typological dating of the Beakers indicated that the cemetery was in use at least between 2290-1900 cal BC, during the Beaker-Early Bronze Age transition. Inhumation was not the sole funerary rite being practised on the site, however: Cist 5 contained a cremation burial. Cist 4 also produced a stone with geometric carvings along one edge, thought to represent art from a passage grave. Such engravings are typically seen in the 4th millennium BC, and it is believed that the recently found example had probably been reused from a Late Neolithic monument.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.co.uk ...
It's a monster of a find!
Interesting!
“Carinate is a shape in pottery, glassware and artistic design usually applied to amphorae or vases. The shape is defined by the joining of a rounded base to the sides of an inward sloping vessel.[1] This design is seen in ancient cultures such as recovered in archaeological digs in such sites as the palace of Knossos in Minoan Crete.[2] An alternative adjectival form of this design is carinated.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinate
“Recent excavations at Lewiston by AOC Archaeology revealed over 35 Neolithic pits arranged in six broad clusters.”
Man! That AOC has her fingers in a lot of pies!
Obviously before the Monster ate them all.
Cute. Monster of a find near Loch Ness. I see what you did there.
Check for Zygon activity.
The Loch Ness Monster buries our dead?
No wonder no one ever catches him. They’re protecting him!
Humanity is the LNM’s obedient and loving pets!
Were there any Japanese scientists there explacing explosive detonators?
I, for one, seek to live in peace with our underwater ally.
Bronze Age burials beside Loch Ness only cost tree fiddy.
More from prehistoric Scotland.
Plus, she lives rentfree in the FR keywords!
In the name of Health & Safety, loch Ness should be sealed off and contents drained after analyzing then safely disposing of the contents.
Knowing the bureaucrats in Scotland and rest of the UK, a proposal like that would not surprise me.
Here's my chance to show my age or my ignorance: what does "3661 cal BC" etc. mean?
3661 cal BC is about 94cm BC...
;)
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