caa a22 4500 388078081 CHVBK 20180307125204.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959774300015201 doi S0959774300015201 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959774300015201 Pearson Mike Parker Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN Food, Sex and Death: Cosmologies in the British Iron Age with Particular Reference to East Yorkshire [Elektronische Daten] [Mike Parker Pearson] The British Iron Age had an enduring set of traditions involving the east- west axis of the sun's path, the sunwise progression of movement and the classification of animals. Although these traditions were manifested regionally in slightly different ways and were modified, contested and restructured during the Iron Age, they provide us with a key to unlock aspects of the symbolism and practices of daily life. The significance of westerly orientations and of pigs in embodying and expressing associations of high status and other social differences were principal features of a strongly hierarchical society whose social differences were otherwise largely muted in terms of material culture distinctions. The cemeteries of East Yorkshire provide a detailed insight into the ordering of these social differences which were, even then, only rarely expressed through grave goods and mortuary elaboration. The burials of the Yorkshire elite are suggestive of a conception of sacred leadership or kingship, which included the symbolic spearing of certain individuals. Animal offerings were used in the structuring of social differences, with pig portions and sheep bones marking thedead of elite and commoner groups respectively. Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1999 Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 43-69 0959-7743 9:1<43 1999 9 CAJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300015201 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300015201 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pearson Mike Parker Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 43-69 0959-7743 9:1<43 1999 9 CAJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge