CARR

Günümüzde önemli bir İrlandalı oyun yazarı olan Marina Carr (1964), oyunlarında kadınların farklı deneyimlerini göstererek dikkat çeker. The Mai (1994), Portia Coughlan (1996) ve By the Bog of Cats… (1998) adlı oyunlardan oluşan Midlands üçlemesi, farklı derecelerde saldırganlık ve şiddetle donatılmış alışılmadık anne tasvirleriyle İrlandalı okuyucu/izleyici üzerinde büyük bir etki yarattığından yazarın kariyerinin merkezindedir. Midlands üçlemesinin son oyunu olan By the Bog of Cats… İrlanda sınırlarını aşarak daha çok izleyiciye ulaştığından daha da başarılıdır. Bu oyun Hester Swane tasvirinde mükemmel annelik mitini reddederken, Carr anne karakterinin kişisel sorunlarını ve isteklerini öne çıkarır ve okuyucu/izleyicisini Hester’in farklı türdeki şiddetiyle şaşırtır. Bu anne kızının babası onu terk edince ve başka bir kadınla evlenmeye karar verince zorda kalır. Yedi yaşındayken kendisini terk eden ve Midlands bataklığına geri döneceğine söz veren annesini bekleyen Hester toprağın...

A modern burial experiment was devised to test microscopic residue survival in acidic peat and slightly acidic clay soils at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr (North Yorkshire, UK), and at nearby control location. The experiment addresses concerns regarding the applicability of residue analysis in varied burial environments, and particularly in highly acidic archaeological conditions. Flint flakes (n= 78, including blank controls) were used on twelve plant, animal, and mineral materials to create residues and then buried. The residues were examined 1 month and 11 months after burial. An unburied reference collection containing the same twelve residue types in a fresh state was compared to the buried residues to assess diagenesis. The residue types that survived across all burial conditions and time intervals were: softwood tissue, tree resin, bird feathers, squirrel hair, and red ochre. During microscopic analysis, it became clear that many residues lack diagnostic traits, and thus an assessment of the extent to which each residue can be identified was conducted. The degree to which residues were able to be identified was further investigated with a variable pressure scanning electron microscope (SEM). SEM images of the reference residues were compared to the reflected VLM micrographs of the same residues, which improved characterisation in some cases. Residues were grouped into three categories (diagnostic, distinctive, and non-distinctive) within a visual characterisation guide. Our in situ microscopic analyses indicated that few residue types have diagnostic traits that allow them to be identified unambiguously, and thus further characterisation techniques are often required.

Since its publication in 1954 Star Carr has held an iconic status in British Mesolithic archaeology. The original excavations at the site recorded a large assemblage of bone and antler tools from a sequence of peat deposits at the edge of the Lake Flixton. Over 60 years later this remains the largest assemblage of bone and antler artefacts of its date in Britain and has been an invaluable source of information for life in the early Mesolithic. However, the interpretation of this material has been the subject of intense debate, and the assemblage has been variously described as the remains of an in situ settlement, a refuse dump, and the result of culturally prescribed acts of deposition. Fundamentally, these very different ideas of the nature of the site depend on differing interpretations of the environmental context into which the majority of the organic artefacts were deposited. This paper presents the results of recent work at Star Carr that helps to resolve the debate surroundi...

Excavated in 1949-51 and fully published in 1954 (Clark 1954), the British Mesolithic site of Star Carr has been seen as an archaeological classic in excavation and interpretative techniques for more than two decades, as generations of Cambridge University-trained ...