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Ritual and Rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex: A Study on the formation of a specific archaeological record
J.D. Hill
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The author has been a familiar speaker at Theoretical Archaeology Group meetings in Britain for a number of years and his general approach must now be familiar to many people. His specific argument that pit deposits usually interpreted as ‘rubbish’ are in fact structured in a meaningful way is sure to be of interest to all archaeologists involved with the investigation of middens or faunal ‘rubbish’ deposits, though taphonomists may remain sceptical. The wider implications for the study of the Iron Age in Britain (especially his historiographical critique of past `culture-historical' approaches) are also stimulating.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Preface and Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Chapter 1. Ritual and Rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex: An Introduction
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Chapter 2. “A Persistent and Interesting Feature”: Previous Work on Ritual Deposits from Wessex Iron Age Sites
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Chapter 3. How things entered the Iron Age Archaeological Record: Current Work, Understandings and Assumptions
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Chapter 4. Questions, Methods & Data
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Chapter 5. Investigations of Pits: Level 1 - Individual Layers
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Chapter 6. Investigations of Pits: Level 2 - Pit Thirds
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Chapter 7. Investigations of Pits: Level 3 - Overall Pit Contents
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Chapter 8. The Required Barrier and the Required Threshold: Are deposits in the Winnall Enclosure Ditch similar to that in Pits?
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Chapter 9. Spatial Distributions within Pit Deposits and the Internal Organisation of Settlement Space
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Chapter 10. ‘Special’, ‘Structured’ or ‘Ritual’ Deposition?
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Chapter 11. A Life-Giving Technique: The Elements of this Ritual Tradition
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Chapter 12. Deposits in History, Deposits making History
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Chapter 13. Ritual and Rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex: A Conclusion
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Appendix 1. ‘Guessimating’ the quantities of originally material discarded on Iron Age settlements
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Bibliography
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Tables
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Published: 1995
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407318691 (ebook)
- 9780860547846 (paperback)
BAR Number: B242