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Life and death in the ‘Neolithic’: Dwelling-scapes in southern Britain
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Abstract
Using recent work relating to subsistence and residential patterns in the British ‘Neolithic’, I argue that the dispersal of human skeletal material, characteristic of the ‘Neolithic’ in southern Britain, can be seen as the ‘fall-out’ of a dispersed and mobile pattern of residence. This pattern of human skeletal material can therefore be viewed independently from any specific complex and multiple-stage mortuary processes. Further, the role of the stone, timber and earthen constructions that frame this mobile ‘dwelling-scape’ is viewed in relation to their changing visibility as the vegetation changed. I reach the conclusion that the ‘Neolithic’ of southern Britain was one of dispersed and mobile human activity within a dwelling-scape, which was itself in constant flux.
En me basant sur des travaux récents traitant de la subsistence et des modèles d'habitation pendant le néolitique britannique, j'affirme que la dispersion des ossements humains, caractéristique du néolithique du sud de la Grande-Bretagne, peut être décrite comme retombée d'une manière d'habitation dispersée et mobile. Ces échantillons d'ossements humains peuvent donc être examinés indépendamment de tout processus mortuaire complexe et à stages multiples. De plus, on considère la fonction des constructions en pierres, bois et terre qui entourent ces habitations mobiles en relation à leur visibilité dépendante de la végétation changeante. J'arrive à la conclusion que le néolitique du sud de la Grande-Bretagne faisait état d'une activité humaine dispersée et mobile à l'intérieur d'une région colonisée, elle-même en changement continuel.
Zusammenfassung
Auf der Basis jüngster Untersuchungen zu Lebensgrundlagen und Siedlungsmustern im britischen ‘Neolithikum’ legt der Verfasser dar, daß die Zerstreuung von menschlichem Skelettmaterial ein Charakteristikum des ‘Neolithikums’ im Süden Großbritanniens als Niederschlag eines locker verteilten und mobilen Siedlungsmusters zu werten ist. Dieses Erscheinungsbild menschlichen Skelettmaterials kann daher unabhängig von jeglichem Fundkomplex und den mehrphasigen Begräbnisriten betrachtet werden. Weiterhin wird die Rolle von Stein-, Holz- und Erdkonstruktionen, die diese mobilen Siedlungsspektren hervorbrachten, in Abhängigkeit von ihrer wechselnden Sichtbarkeit mit dem jahreszeitlichen Wechsel der Vegetation betrachtet. Der Verfasser kommt zu dem Schluß, daß das ‘Neolithikum’ im Süden Großbritanniens durch verstreute und mobile menschliche Aktivität innerhalb eines Siedlungsraumes geprägt war, die sich selbst in beständigem Fluß befand.
Keywords
Aveburyenvironmenthuman skeletal materialmobile residential systems‘Neolithic’southern BritainAveburyenvironnementnéolithique du sud de la Grande-Bretagneosssements humainssystèmes d'habitation mobileAveburymenschliches Skelettmaterialmobile Wohnsysteme‘Neolithikum’ im südlichen Großbritannien, Umwelt
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