A Geography of Offerings: Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe , by Richard Bradley, Oxbow Books, 160 pp., 2017, ISBN: 978-1-7857-0477-2 In this article I review Richard Bradley’s latest book introducing the geographies of hoards and votive offerings in Northern and Western Europe that range from the Mesolithic period to Mediaeval times. Beyond the descriptive account of the deposits in the area, the book comprises a well-founded critique on academic traditions in archaeology, and their tendency of creating regional and chronological faultlines. These faultlines, it is argued, severely limit our interpretations of deliberate deposition of objects which are, often subsumed under terms like ‘ritual’. In an attempt to overcome these faultlines, Bradley provides an alternative to typological studies of hoard deposits by focusing on object histories and their place within the landscape. Through this approach, original interpretations are presented from hoard deposits (mostly containing metalwork) that transcend pervasive ritual/non-ritual dichotomous interpretations.

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产品地理回顾：古代欧洲风景中的贵重物品存放

《产品地理：古代欧洲风景中的贵重物品的存放》，作者：理查德·布拉德利（Richard Bradley），牛津书局（Oxbow Books），160页，2017年，ISBN：978-1-7857-0477-2北欧和西欧的ho积和奉献物地理范围从中石器时代到中世纪。除了对该地区沉积物的描述性描述之外，该书还包括对考古学学术传统及其形成区域和年代学断层线的趋势的有根据的批判。有人认为，这些断层严重地限制了我们对物体故意沉积的解释，这些物体通常被归类为“仪式”。为了克服这些缺点，布拉德利通过关注对象历史及其在景观中的位置，为provides积沉积的类型学研究提供了另一种选择。通过这种方法，可以从超越普遍的仪式/非仪式二分法解释的ho积物（主要包含金属制品）中获得原始解释。