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	Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England.
		Wessex was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC), founded by Cerdic and Cynric, although the specifics given by the ASC are considered to be suspect.
		Wessex groups are currently campaigning for boundary revisions to the regions in order to more closely match their definitions of Wessex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wessex (920 words)

	Encyclopedia: Material culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cultures are the basic units of Prehistoric archaeology and were first fully explored by Vere Gordon Childe in the late 1920s.
		The Culture History approach to archaeology is largely reliant on this rigid concept of material culture and human beings being closely connected.
		The concept of the culture still remains popular however and as with the three-age system it remains useful in most cases as a shorthand term for time periods, regions and distinctive practices.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Material-culture (646 words)

	Archaeological culture -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An archaeological culture is a pattern of similar (A man-made object taken as a whole) artefacts and (A prominent aspect of something) features found within a specific area over a limited period of time.
		Cultures are the basic units of (additional info and facts about Prehistoric archaeology) Prehistoric archaeology and were first fully explored by (additional info and facts about Vere Gordon Childe) Vere Gordon Childe in the late (The decade from 1920 to 1929) 1920s.
		Material culture refers to physical objects from the past, the study of which is the basis of the discipline.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/archaeological_culture.htm (768 words)

	History of England, The Anglo Saxon Period
		Outside Wessex, their ships were able to penetrate far inland; they sailed with impunity up the Dee, Humber, Ribble, Tyne, Medway and Thames, and founded their communities wherever the rivers met the sea.
		As it was, however, the occupation of London by the King of Wessex marked a new stage in the advancement of the English people towards political unity, the acceptance of his overlordship expressed a feeling that he stood for interests common to the whole English race.
		Wessex remained the stronghold of the English during the next twenty years of increasing Viking attacks, but when King Edgar was slain by supporters of his brother Ethelred, disaster came to the whole country.
	www.britannia.com /history/narsaxhist2.html (3840 words)

	Unetice culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unetice, or more properly Únětice, culture, (German: Aunjetitz) is the name given to an early Bronze Age culture, preceded by the Beaker culture and followed by the Tumulus culture.
		The culture is distinguished by its characteristic metal objects including ingot torcs, (Barren- und Ösenhalsringe), flat axes, flat triangular daggers, bracelets with spiral-ends, disk- and paddle-headed pins and curl rings which are distributed over a wide area of Central Europe and beyond.
		Cultures of the Unetice complex include Adlerberg, Straubing, Singen, the Neckar- Ries and Upper-Rhine-group in Germany, Unterwölbling in Austria, Hatvan and Nagyrév in Hungary, Nitra and Kost'any in Slovakia and Trzciniec in Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unetice_culture (918 words)

	Wessex culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wessex culture is a name given to the predominant prehistoric culture of southern Britain during the Bronze Age.
		It should not be confused with the later Saxon kingdom of Wessex.
		Active during the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, our knowledge of the Wessex people comes from their burial practices as no settlement evidence has yet been positively identified.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wessex_culture (188 words)

	Unetice culture
		The culture is distinguished by its characteristic metal objects including ingot torcs, (Barren- und Ösenhalsringe), flat axes, flat triangular daggers, bracelets with spiral-ends, disk- and paddle-headed pins and curl ringss which are distributed over a wide area of Central Europe and beyond.
		The Famous "sky-disk" of Nebra has been attributed to the Únětice culture because of copper daggers that were supposedly associated with the find.
		It is thought that many allied cultures in the region were part of a general Unetice tradition.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/u/un/unetice_culture.html (911 words)

	Shanks - Culture/archaeology
		As indicated, it was only later that culture came to have a plural sense of a way of life, a sense which led to its anthropological use, formalised in the discipline in the twentieth century (Kroeber and Kluckhohn 1952).
		Culture: the social production and reproduction of meaning, the social sphere of making sense which unites production and social relations; a field of signification through which a social order is communicated, reproduced, experienced and explored.
		Culture is therefore best treated as something which is constructed, emergent from social practice, and changing; it is not a unified body of symbols and values.
	metamedia.stanford.edu /~mshanks/writing/culture_arch.html (7196 words)

	History of England, The Anglo Saxon Period
		In that northern outpost of the Catholic Church, a tradition of scholarship began that was to have a profound influence on the literature of Western Europe.
		It was time for Wessex to recover the greatness that had begun in the sixth century under Ceawlin.
		Wessex borders had expanded greatly and Ceawlin had was recognized as supreme ruler in Southern England.
	www.britannia.com /history/narsaxhist.html (3805 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		So we know that a thriving culture existed around 8,000 years ago in the misty, westward islands the Romans were to call Britannia, though some have suggested the occupation was only seasonal, due to the still-cold climate of the glacial period which was slowly coming to an end.
		In present-day Yorkshire, "the Arras Culture" with its La Tene chariot burials attests to the presence of a wealthy and flourishing Celtic society in Northeast Britain.
		Here, a culture developed that was probably highly involved in the mining and trading of tin; it is characterized by a certain type of hill fort that is also found in Britanny.
	www.universidadreal.edu.bo /esl/british.htm (16558 words)

	History of England, Medieval Britain
		Godwin of Wessex was the most powerful man in England after the King, whom he supported in the raid on the treasures at Winchester, but who tried his utmost to run the country as family fiefdom.
		Had Harold of Wessex won at Hastings, and it was touch and go all day, then the future course of England would have been certainly different.
		Apart from the cultural and political legacy of the Norman occupation, the effects on architecture and language were also immense.
	www.britannia.com /history/narmedhist.html (3250 words)

	Wessex Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wessex Society is a cultural society dedicated to promoting a distinctive regional identity for the Wessex region (click on the button marked "Where is Wessex?", below, for more information on Wessex).
		For example, the primarily rural and agricultural region of Wessex has a very different "vibe" to the industrial heartlands of the North.
		Please note that Wessex Society is in no way affiliated or connected with the Wessex Society of Newfoundland, which seeks to promote cultural contacts between Newfoundland and the West of England.
	www.zyworld.com /wessexsociety (506 words)

	Bronze Age: history, culture, mythology.
		Thus Indo-European representations have influenced fair influence of the previous cultures, is especial in iconographic sphere.
		However it is necessary to tell, that he has not quitted the stage at all, keeping in many cases nominal leadership and under the certain circumstances (for example, secondary "democratisation") returning to himself authority.
		Besides, it is necessary to note the tendency existing in a number of cultures to merge of images of two heavenly gods - the God of Thunder and the God of Sky.
	www.geocities.com /north_gods/myth.htm (2013 words)

	Home Page
		Wessex Regionalists, founded in 1974 by Alexander Thynne (now Lord Bath), are the oldest regionalist political party in England, and were advocating regional devolution for Wessex long before English regionalism entered mainstream political consciousness.
		Wessex is administered by 7 county councils with a total of 28 district, 13 borough and 4 city councils; 16 unitary district authorities (including 7 boroughs and 4 cities); one unitary county (Isle of Wight) and 2,244 parish councils.
		This means that the GDP per head index for Wessex (where UK figure=100) equals 108, compared to 109 for the South East region and 91 for the South West, the latter being the poorest English region south of the Humber.
	www.zyworld.com /wessexsociety/caseforwessex.htm (2758 words)

	[No title]
		The Wessex culture dates from 1700 BC and is represented by burials accompanied by rich grave goods.
		The Wessex culture dated from the 7th century BC and the metalwork found mainly as grave goods.
		Wessex II ates from c1500 BC and the metalwork is characterised by Camerton-Snowshill daggers which are ogival in shape, with a midrib, and two or or three large rivets.
	c.cater.users.btopenworld.com /HTMLFiles/the_bronze_age.html (2172 words)

	The British Bronze Age (2750 B.C.E.- 700 B.C.E.)
		The Wessex culture dates from ± 1700 B.C.E. and is represented by burials accompanied by rich grave goods.
		Wessex culture burials are found from ± 1700 B.C.E. and stand out because of the richness of a few of the burials.
		This type of burial is restricted mainly to the Wessex region.
	home.versatel.nl /postbus/britishBA.html (1424 words)

	Archaeological culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Daily practice and material culture in pluralistic social settings: an archaeological study of culture change and persis...
		Emerging trends in rock-art research: hunter--gatherer culture, land and landscape.(changes in archaeological and anthro...
		The theft of culture and the extinction of...
	hallencyclopedia.com /Archaeological_culture (853 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wessex culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In archaeology, culture refers to either of two separate but allied concepts: An archaeological culture is a pattern of similar artefacts and features found within a specific area over a limited period of time.
		The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze.
		The Beaker people (or `Beaker folk) were an archaeological culture present in prehistoric Europe, defined by a pottery style -- a beaker with a distinctive bell-shaped profile -- that many archeologists believe spread across the western part of the Continent during the 3rd millennium BC.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wessex-culture (590 words)

	Articles - Archaeological culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When definining an archaeological culture, the archaeologist points to a specific set of findings; few archaeological sites, however, present a 'pure' example, and when assigning finds to a specific culture, the archaeologist either has only partial remains of the 'pure' definition, or has mixed findings.
		There is also the very real phenomenon of two or more distinct material cultures which may or may not represent different peoples sharing the same geographic extent during the same time period.
		Which such synchronous findings are often cited as evidence for one or more intrusive cultures, one classic example that cautions us is that of the (now largely extinct) distinction between village Arabs and Bedouin Arabs, where you have radically different material cultures which are in reality part of a much larger unity.
	www.anfolk.com /articles/Archaeological_culture (761 words)

	Wessex Group
		The business culture of Wessex has always been to maintain careful steady growth in unison with forward thinking innovation without compromising the high standards of customer care and professional management.
		The Wessex Group of companies are proud to be recognised as an Investor in People which sets the national standard of good practice for training and development of people to achieve business goals.
		The Wessex Group are proud of the working associations developed over the years with customers who expect the best quality of service and dedication to meet their high expectations.
	www.wessex.org /group (311 words)

	WESSEX BOOKS SOURCE, FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
		Wessex (West-Sachsen) war eines der angelsÃ¤chsischen KÃ¶nigreiche wÃ¤hrend der Heptarchie, das vor dem KÃ¶nigreich England bestand.
		Der Einfluss von ''Wessex'' erstreckte sich Ã¼ber die heutigen Grafschaften Devon und Cornwall und fÃ¼hrte zu einem erheblichen Machtzuwachs der KÃ¶nige von ''Wessex''.
		Wessex wurde durch den englischen Autor Thomas Hardy (1840â“1928) als fiktive Grafschaft im SÃ¼dwesten Englands verwandt, in dem die meisten seiner Romane spielen.
	www.lilbooks.com /Wessex (268 words)

	Britain, ancient
		It was succeeded in central southern Britain by the Early Bronze Age Wessex culture, with strong trade links across Europe.
		The aristocratic society of the Bronze Age Wessex culture of southern England is characterized by its circular burial mounds (round barrows);; the dead were either buried or cremated, and cremated remains were placed in pottery urns.
		Later invaders were the Celts, a warrior aristocracy with an Iron Age technology; they introduced horse-drawn chariots, had their own distinctive art forms (see Celtic art), and occupied fortified hilltops.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0018018.html (364 words)

	8 - Consolidation
		The term Wessex Culture is sometimes applied to the archaeological evidence provided in southern England by material from about a hundred rich burials.
		So what we are looking at in the Wessex Culture is not a complete culture but the most obvious facet of the culture that existed in Britain at the time.
		Dating for these richest graves is within the bracket of the first few centuries of the second millenium BC and after that we see a gradual decline in worldly goods although barrows are still used to cover the graves.
	www.btinternet.com /~ron.wilcox/onlinetexts/onlinetexts-chap8.htm (4384 words)

	Archaeology: The Bronze Age \| British History Online
		The Wessex culture (Footnote 27) (middle of the 2nd millennium B.C.) of the Early Bronze Age is represented in the county and the surrounding area by a few metal finds, but there is in Middlesex no evidence of associated settlements.
		The Wessex industries were also producing tanged and early socketed spearheads (using metal pegs or pins to secure shaft to socket) and cast-flanged axes in the second half of the Early Bronze Age.
		The links between Wessex and the Continent and the Mediterranean during this period are well known; (Footnote 85) but there is little concrete evidence for the direct links between the Thames valley and the Continent which almost certainly existed at this time.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22099 (3844 words)

	Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion: Archæological terms: W (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the Wessex region of southern Britain, richer grave goods gold ornaments – have led to the idea of a Wessex culture during the early Bronze Age.
		Wessex I: 2200-1900 BC – the Bush Barrow Group, Wiltshire – a group of crouched and extended burials accompanied by a wide range of rich grave goods many of which indicate trade with other areas: amber, shale, jet, daggers, grape cups, battle axes and gold objects.
		Wessex II: 1700-1400 BC – the Aldbourne-Edmonsham group – a group of cremations accompanied by a wide range of grave goods: Aldbourne cups, pins, daggers, battle axes
	members.aol.com /calderdale/a22_w.html (1241 words)

	Builders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is thus clear that one of the groups of the Secondary Neolithic cultures had a major role to play in the construction of Stonehenge I. Another group responsible for the construction of Stonehenge was the Beaker culture, named for their pottery drinking cups.
		The final group responsible for the construction of Stonehenge was the Wessex culture of the early Bronze Age.
		The Wessex culture is generally ascribed with the construction of Stonehenge III.
	www.astronomy.pomona.edu /archeo/britain/stonehenge/people.htm (567 words)

	Astronomical Alignments at a Bronze Age Round Barrow in Monmouthshire, South Wales
		They were the bell, the disc, the saucer and the pond-barrow, the main distinguishing factor being the relative sizes of the mound and, where it existed, the berm surrounding the mound.
		Wessex barrow burials were often accompanied by rich grave goods, e.g.
		It was uncertain from the excavation evidence whether or not the ditch completely surrounded the barrow, or whether an outer bank surrounded the ditch, as is the case with some of its Wessex barrow counterparts.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mjpowell/Crick_Barrow/Crick.htm (3331 words)

	Iron-age
		It is this culture of producing wealth and the need to protect it that characterises the Iron Age.
		At about 700 BC, the Wessex culture waned and was replaced by a Celtic culture slowly migrating from central Europe.
		The new culture was characterised by the disappearance of burial monuments and ceremonial centres, the development of intensive farming and of field systems and land boundaries that would be familiar to most medieval farmers, and the building of defended farmsteads and hill-forts which were perhaps necessary to protect the stored winter cereals and cattle.
	www.chobham.org.uk /iron-age.htm (620 words)

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