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Oxford J Archaeol 25 (2)
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Title:
Oxford J Archaeol 25 (2)
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Series:
Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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Volume:
25 (2)
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Journal
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Editor:
Barry Cunliffe
Chris Gosden
Helena Hamerow
Nicholas Purcell
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Blackwell Publishing
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Year of Publication:
2006
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/25/2
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22 Jan 2007
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Abstract
Pit-digging, occupation and structured deposition on Rudston Wold, eastern Yorkshire
Jan Harding
109 - 126
Excavated Neolithic pit clusters, like those found on Rudston Wold in eastern Yorkshire, have often been seen as the remains of occupation sites. The features are interpreted as possessing practical roles, including their use for storing grain, and the incorporated material culture regarded as casually discarded waste. More recent interpretations, however, have emphasized these features' functional unsuitability, rather seeing pit-digging, and the deposition of ideologically-charged objects, as a deliberate attempt to inscribe meaning across a landscape. These two different approaches are considered by a detailed examination of the Peterborough Ware and Grooved Ware associated pits, dug-out swallow-holes and hollows of Rudston Wold. It is argued that their lithic assemblage demonstrates a conventionality best understood as representing occupation at and around the features, themselves once part of small-scale dwellings, but that this material nonetheless resulted from deliberate and purposeful acts which changed during the Later Neolithic.
Romano-British people and the language of sociology
Mike R McCarthy
201 - 212
The author argues that it is necessary to look behind the disjecta membra of archaeology in order to understand the structure and nature of Romano-British society, and how the Roman Conquest may have impacted upon it. It is suggested that the language of sociology offers scope for thought, especially when combined with examples drawn from historically documented societies in later periods; whilst models drawn from the classical world are important, attention also needs to be focused on the local, and on the factors that determined the shape of people's lives and influenced their daily activities. Not all these are archaeologically detectable; nevertheless an appreciation of their existence is an important pre-requisite in attempting explanations of patterns in the data.