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J Theoretical Archaeol 2
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Title:
J Theoretical Archaeol 2
Series
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Series:
Journal of Theoretical Archaeology
Volume
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Volume:
2
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Publication Type:
Journal
Year of Publication
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Year of Publication:
1991
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Date Of Issue From: 1991
Source
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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Created Date:
20 Jan 2002
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A logic of archaeological inference
Max Adams
1 - 11
Viewing the inferences drawn from archaeological evidence as a series of essentially scientific processes, an assessment of each observed trait's culturally enhancing and reducing factors, along with those present in its environment, are used to form equations which, it is suggested, could evaluate the diagnostic and undiagnostic attributes of a set, or piece, of archaeological data. Following on from this the `inference potential' and `inference quality' may be similarly calculated.
Suck-in and smear: two related chronological problems for the 90s
Mike G L Baillie
12 - 16
Explores the possible consequences of accurate prehistoric dates drawn from long oak tree--ring chronologies. The immediately apparent misuses might result from extreme reactions which either extrapolate too many conclusions from one accurate date -- `sucking in' events which then appear to have been related -- or ignoring the accurate dates and occurrences that really were synchronised -- `smearing' by using variable radiocarbon dates. The dating of the effects of volcanic eruptions is used to illustrate the point.
When do Anglo-Saxon children count?
Sally Crawford
17 - 24
The concept of childhood and the status of children in the Anglo--Saxon period is considered, looking at how the burial record might reflect this aspect of social structure.
On the historical and structural meaning of the term `Mesolithic'
Iztok Saksida
25 - 28
Challenges current perspectives on Mesolithic society. The terminology for the occupation sites of settled Neolithic cultures mirrors that of the present day. The Mesolithic is put `outside' our capacity to interpret by terminology that infers a fundamental difference between the two forms of socio--economic structure. It is further suggested that as a result of this we over--simplify our conception of Mesolithic society preventing any further understanding.
An outline of a new approach for the interpretation of Romano-British mosaics, and some comments on the possible significance of the Orpheus mosaics of fourth-century Roman Britain
Sarah Scott
29 - 35
A new approach to this class of evidence. Mosaics are conceptualised as a product of, and an active constituent within, social relations rather than as a passive architectural feature.