ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Carole Crumley’s innovative examination of landscape as the historical manifestation of human-environment dynamics and social complexity. It considers results of the research on one of the mounds, Tumulus 17, which challenges the way Iron Age mortuary landscapes are often imagined. The chapter examines the manipulation of body and object in the mound through textile wrapping. It explores the incorporation of mortuary monuments into elaborately manipulated landscapes of life, death and memory. The chapter deals with the latest archaeometric discovery of a previously undetected dimension of early Iron Age mortuary behavior. Early Iron Age archaeological landscapes are networks of deposits composed of human remains, objects and fragments of objects. The wrapping of body and object may reveal ontological person/thing distinctions in early Iron Age societies. Landscapes of the early Iron Age were structured to “choreograph” the movements, often incorporating the “embodied” remains of ancestors.
