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Oxford J Archaeol 16 (2)
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Title:
Oxford J Archaeol 16 (2)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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16 (2)
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Publication Type:
Journal
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Year of Publication:
1997
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Date Of Issue From: 1997
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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20 Jan 2002
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An early prehistoric shaft on Cranborne Chase
Martin Green
Michael J Allen
121 - 132
Details a unique shaft, over 25m deep, exhibiting Mesolithic--Beaker activity.
Clearances and clearings: deforestation in Mesolithic/Neolithic Britain
Anthony G Brown
133 - 146
A paper considering the role of natural processes in creating forest clearings and the inadvertent impact of human activity on forest processes including regeneration. Also deals with the apparent discrepancy between pollen diagram evidence and archaeological data when considering the impact of the Neolithic on forest processes, the importance of `ecological opportunism' in deciding a settlement site, and the role of fire.
Land, kinship relations and the rise of enclosed settlement in first millennium B.C. Britain
Roger Thomas
211 - 218
Considers the enclosed settlements of the first millennium BC in contrast to the predominantly open settlements of the fourth to second millennia BC, with particular reference to concomitant changes in social structures and kinship relations. The intensification of farming activity and changing emphasis on land occupation/ownership may be seen to have reinforced social divisions. `Special' deposits of material in enclosure ditches have been interpreted as reinforcing such a division.
Testing significance or testing credulity?
Clive Orton
219 - 225
A paper examining two recent attempts to analyse a set of data relating to Icenian coin hoards (see also 97/470 & 97/474). The methodology of the second attempt, based on significance tests made on `permillia' data (ie coins per thousand), is shown to be flawed, and its conclusions unfounded. The danger of using analytical statistical techniques without consideration of the assumptions on which they are based, is stressed. Alternative approaches, one analytical and one graphical, are presented: they suggest an interpretation which differs from both the original analyses.
