entity · phase_bi_urnfield_comparison
Urnfield-related comparative horizon
Comparative label for cremation, ceramic and metalwork traditions across parts of continental Europe.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies — Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (2012)Provides explicit southern British and Scottish phase tables and cautions that southern British chronology cannot simply be transferred to Scotland.
Locator: Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2 - informs · defines or contextualizes
An Independent Chronology for British Bronze Age Metalwork: The Results of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Programme — Stuart Needham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, David Coombs, Caroline Cartwright, Paul Pettitt (1997)Presents 46 radiocarbon measurements on organics physically associated with metalwork and revises Middle to Late Bronze Age phase chronology.
Locator: Abstract; pp. 55–107; chronological synthesis tables
Research description
Urnfield is an archaeological umbrella with substantial regional diversity. Similar objects or practices in Britain and Ireland do not by themselves demonstrate mass migration or a single Urnfield people.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not a people
The name is a modern archaeological classification rather than an ancient self-designation.
Why does this record have this property?
Urnfield-related comparative horizon is used as an archaeological classification and is not treated as an ancient people.
- History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies
supports assignment · Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2 - An Independent Chronology for British Bronze Age Metalwork: The Results of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Programme
supports assignment · Abstract; pp. 55–107; chronological synthesis tables
Contact evidence does not by itself prove migration
Objects, styles or materials indicate contact or circulation without uniquely identifying population movement.
Why does this record have this property?
The evidence supports contact, circulation or individual mobility but does not alone establish mass migration or ethnic replacement.
- History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies
supports assignment · Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2 - An Independent Chronology for British Bronze Age Metalwork: The Results of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Programme
supports assignment · Abstract; pp. 55–107; chronological synthesis tables
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
History of Bronze Age research in Scotland, including summary chronologies — Scottish Archaeological Research Framework (2012)Provides explicit southern British and Scottish phase tables and cautions that southern British chronology cannot simply be transferred to Scotland.
Locator: Sections 1.2 and 1.2.5, Tables 1 and 2 - supports · defines or contextualizes
An Independent Chronology for British Bronze Age Metalwork: The Results of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Programme — Stuart Needham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, David Coombs, Caroline Cartwright, Paul Pettitt (1997)Presents 46 radiocarbon measurements on organics physically associated with metalwork and revises Middle to Late Bronze Age phase chronology.
Locator: Abstract; pp. 55–107; chronological synthesis tables