EAA STUDENT AWARD 2013
The European Association of Archaeologists awards the 2013 Student Award of the European Association of Archaeologists to Oliver Dietrich for his paper Learning from ‘scrap’ about Late Bronze Age hoarding practices: a biographical approach to individual acts of dedication in large metal hoards.
Oliver Dietrich’s paper deals with a subject of European significance – Bronze Age hoards. It focusses on the large, so called ‘scrap hoards’ 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 ‘miniature hoards’ 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