Recently CNN.co.jp reported the following:
鉄器時代の人々も遺品で死者を追想、英研究
2021.06.23 Wed posted at 13:20 JST
(CNN) 鉄器時代の英国では、愛する人の遺品を身に付けることがありふれていたとする研究が、21日付の考古学誌アンティクイティ上で発表された。
英イングランド北東部にあるヨーク大学の考古学者らは今回の研究で、彼らが「問題の品」と呼ぶ、死者の所持品のうちで、残された人々が使用したいと考えるような物ではないものの、捨てることは出来ないと感じる物に焦点を当てた。
研究者らはこうした品々が、死者をしのぶ物としてその場所に置かれた可能性があると考えている。
論文の主執筆者で同大学に所属する考古学者のリンゼー・ブースター氏はプレスリリースで、こうした遺品は、死別の際における「ありのままの感情の力」を保持することができると説明。
同氏はCNNに対し、そうした「ありふれた物」によって、残された人々が「喪失感や悲しみの感情、そして自らの死について考えることに目を向けさせ、死者との間で「絆を保ち続ける」ことが出来ると説明。
先史時代においても、生と死の経験は「ある意味、私たちのものとそれほど変わるものではない」と述べた。
Translation
(CNN) A study in Britain centering on the Iron Age that it
was common to wear the relics of a loved one was published in the
archaeological journal Antiquity on the 21st.
Archaeologists at the University
of York in northeastern England in this study focused on things that had been
the possessions of the dead, and the survivors did not want to use them yet felt
that they could not throw them away. Archaeologists called them "the objects
in question”.
Researchers had found a citadel settlement built by settlers on a hill dated from 640 BC to 210 BC in Blocksmouth, Scotland. Between the walls of a circular hut, they discovered daily necessities such as spoon like bone tools and stone mills.
Researchers suspected that these items could have been placed in place as a tribute to the dead.
In Britain during the Iron Age, a common method of burial was to return a body naturally by exposing it to the environment without burying it. Therefore, there was usually no tomb to put relics near to the body for offering, and archaeologists believe that this could explain why the relics were offered between the walls of the hut.
In a press release, Lindsey Buster the leading author of the treatise and an archaeologist at the above mentioned university explained that these relics could retain the "true emotional power" felt on the occasion of bereavement.
Towards CNN he explained that these "ordinary things" made those left behind "focus on feelings of the loss, sadness, and thinking about their own death”, and made possible "keeping a bond " with the dead.
So, this
research supports the view that in prehistoric times, on the experience of
life and death felt by human, there is not much difference between them and us.
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