Student Award 2013
Oliver Dietrich
The European Association of Archaeologists awarded the 2013 Student Award of the European Association of Archaeologists to Oliver Dietrich for his paper Learning from âscrapâ about Late Bronze Age hoarding practices: a biographical approach to individual acts of dedication in large metal hoards.
Oliver Dietrichâs paper deals with a subject of European significance â Bronze Age hoards. It focuses on the large, so called âscrap hoardsâ of the Late Bronze Age, which have generally been interpreted as raw material collected for re-melting. Dietrich reinterprets these as long-term accumulations of fragmented votive objects. More specifically, he interprets socketed axes filled with fragments of other objects as âminiature hoardsâ within larger accumulations of fragmented metal. This outstanding paper successfully combines archaeological theory and practice. It is an original contribution to Bronze Age studies in general and to hoard research in particular. It is also well written, well informed and persuasively argued.
We would like to thank the sponsors of the EAA 2013 Student Award who kindly donated books and book vouchers:
- Archaeolingua
- Cambridge University Press