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Man n ser 6
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6
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1971
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Date Of Issue From: 1971
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Attribute analysis and social structure of Chassey-Cortaillod-Lagozza populations
A P Phillips
341 - 352
Study of clustering of pottery artefacts at six stratified Chassey-Cortaillod-Lagozza sites suggested certain tentative conclusions relating to social structure. Every artefact has attributes: material, construction technique, form and decorative treatment. Presumably when different attributes are repeated from sherd to sherd, the respective makers had identical ideas (templates) of manufacture. Repetition of attributes over successive phases at the six sites indicates persistence of templates in time; and repetition of a large series of attributes within one phase indicates strength of a homogeneous tradition within one residential unit. If the assumption (on ethnographical grounds) that the potters are women is correct, the first phenomenon points to a matrilocal system within the society, and this can be checked by study of the attributes of the (male) stone industry. This form of analysis also shows longer persistence, of up to a thousand years, of attributes within the localised Chasseen. R J M
The non-random spacing of Romano-British walled towns
Ian Hodder
Mark W C Hassall
391 - 407
This study applies Central Place Theory to Roman towns in SE Britain. Two categories of towns were distinguished, implanted coloniae and the civitas capitals. The latter head a rough hierarchy above minor walled towns and unwalled centres. After the distribution was found to be non-random, three procedures of analysis were applied. The first demonstrated that minor settlements were distributed according to transport rather than marketing principles. Further, the distribution of settlements suggested status for Water Newton and Ilchester similar to that of civitas capitals, while Gloucester ranked as a minor walled settlement, conclusions confirmed by other evidence. The position of London failed to disrupt the general pattern. The second procedure suggests a pattern of minor settlements clustered around a major site, following the theories of Kolb and Brunner rather than Christaller. Finally, comparison using true road distance showed close correspondence with the idealized hexagonal pattern. The methods, employing Nearest Neighbour Analysis, Thiessen polygons and hexagonal grids, will help to formulate testable hypotheses for the development of the settlement pattern and for the relative status and function of different settlements. J R C
Measuring the rate of spread of early farming in Europe
Albert J Ammerman
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
674 - 688
The large body of information accumulated in recent years encourages an attempt to establish a rate of diffusion for early farming, although methodological problems require detailed consideration, particularly in view of the often complex nature of diffusion. Cereals provide a useful pointer and furthermore their wild progenitors occur outside Europe. Fifty-three 14C-dated European sites of early Neolithic (including eight British and Irish) were plotted on a graph with coordinates representing, respectively, date and distance from an assumed centre of diffusion. Even taking several different Near Eastern "diffusion centres", a remarkably constant rate of diffusion, averaging about 25 km per 25-year generation, emerged. Mechanics of such a diffusion are discussed. This "wave of advance" model, although it fits the facts, is not claimed as the only explanation of them. R J M