causal hypothesis · hyp_bi_selective_mobility_not_replacement
Selective mobility and object circulation model
Long-distance contacts involved objects, materials, knowledge, itinerant craftspeople and some mobile individuals without requiring mass population replacement.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: preferred mobility model. This is separate from specialist review.
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Research assessment
statement
Long-distance contacts involved objects, materials, knowledge, itinerant craftspeople and some mobile individuals without requiring mass population replacement.proposed mechanism
maritime and down-the-line exchange; individual life-course mobility; craft knowledge transfer and imitation; small-scale migration or marriage networksmechanisms
- maritime and down-the-line exchange
- individual life-course mobility
- craft knowledge transfer and imitation
- small-scale migration or marriage networks
chronology test
The model predicts foreign objects and some non-local individuals without island-wide genetic or settlement replacement; the available object, isotope and maritime evidence fits this expectation.geography test
The model predicts individual mobility and object circulation at particular sites without a spatially uniform break in settlement, metallurgy or material practice across Britain and Ireland.important caveat
Current dataset does not include population-wide ancient DNAResearch description
Current dataset does not include population-wide ancient DNA
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · tests hypothesis
Cliffs End Farm, Isle of Thanet, Kent: A Mortuary and Ritual Site of the Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Period — Jacqueline I. McKinley, Matt Leivers, Jörn Schuster, Peter Marshall, Alistair J. Barclay, Nick Stoodley (2014)Publishes the complex mortuary deposits, chronology, human remains and scientific analyses from Cliffs End Farm.
Locator: Late Bronze Age mortuary chapters; radiocarbon and isotope reports - supports · tests hypothesis
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes — Daniel Berger, Quanyu Wang, Gerhard Brügmann, Nicole Lockhoff, Benjamin W. Roberts, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Reanalyses the large Salcombe copper and tin assemblages using trace elements and isotopes to evaluate provenance and circulation.
Locator: Abstract; archaeological objects; analytical results; discussion and conclusions - supports · tests hypothesis
Langdon Bay protected wreck site — Historic EnglandOfficial record for the protected Langdon Bay Bronze Age assemblage and its location.
Locator: Location; Summary; Details; Reasons for Designation - supports · tests hypothesis
Adabrock Late Bronze Age hoard synthesis — Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (2012)Notes the Adabrock hoard's tools, ornaments, amber, glass and fragment of a continental sheet-metal vessel.
Locator: Section 1.2.2, Adabrock hoard caption and discussion
Contradicting sources
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