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2-3 Mar 2023 Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France)
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Calls for collaborative projects > Hair Rings projectHAIR RINGS - Collaborative call for an inventory of hair rings in Europe Since the maps published by B. O'Connor (1980) and G. Eogan (1994), the number of hair ring finds has continued to increase. On the one hand, the multiplication of preventive archaeology operations has made it possible to determine the contexts of the finds and to specify their dating; on the other hand, the application in England and Wales of the Treasure Act has completed the existing inventories, notably in museum collections. The demonstration of an attribution to earlier chronological phases than previously accepted (the hair rings being considered as a master fossil of the Late Bronze - Early Iron Age transition) and the observation that most of the finds came from funerary contexts (Billand & Talon 2007) made it possible, with the possibility of dating the cremated bones (Lanting & Brindley 2005), to reconsider the status of these items of adornment and their chrono-cultural attribution. B. Armbruster's work on their elaboration (1995, 2021) was able to establish that they were elements of body adornment, probably adorning the ears or nose, when only one example appears in a funerary context. The increase in the number of discoveries - some sites yielding more than a dozen hair rings - has made it possible to better understand the different chains of operation and associations of metals used. In the context of the study days on adornment in 2023, we propose to publish an exhaustive and commented inventory of the corpus by mobilising our scientific community in a participatory approach. Initially, a presentation of the approach with a call for collaboration will be made on the occasion of the APRAB 2022 study day on finery by our small group of colleagues motivated by this subject within the Bronze Age Studies Group. This will allow us to prepare in 2022 a first state of the question, by associating the colleagues mobilized on this participative investigation whose results will be the subject of a communication in March 2023 during the international round table "Parures réincarnées. Protohistoric body ornaments as revealing identities and mobilities". Barbara ARMBRUSTER - CNRS, UMR 5608 - Traces, barbara.armbruster@univ-tlse2 |
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