13th September 2011, 12:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 13th September 2011, 01:00 PM by Jack.)
P Prentice Wrote:............. and the observable phenomena of survival under earthworks might well have something mnore to do with the locale than it is evidence for the destruction of them elsewhere - dont ya think?
Could be either or both. But I hate it when 'some' jump to the conclusion that a building under a ritual monument must be ritual. because that 'place' was 'special' to the people. We are dealing with compressed time........the two phases don't necessarily have anything to do with one another. People did build settlements on previously ritual sites and vice versa.
P Prentice Wrote:also agree about the trees on the other thread though banana shaped gullies are usually genuine features with a particular functionI've heard rumours of these 'special' banana-shaped features. Never seen the evidence though. Every banana-shaped feature I've seen has been a root hole/ tree throw. The trick is (yet again) the formation processes of the feature and its fill. Tree throws are usually recognisable by having one good edge and one not so. Where are these banana features published?
The argument of is a structure a house is down to the minutia of evidence. And we were probably arguing cross-purposes of settlement or not. A temporary settlement is still as settlement.
I believe folks are digging up more neo houses (ahem I mean structures) at Balderbride....wasn't there an article in some archaeology magazine?
Lismore fields was a longhouse somewhere in Yorkshire I think that had oodles of charred grain and pottery. Don't know if its been published?
But the main point is....it was almost certainly different in different regions (or even smaller areas). There are some neo houses. There are some neo temporary camps. What i disagree with is when people try to interpret the enitre..say neolithic period for the UK base on a couple of sites.
Interpretation should take into account the unknown, the destroyed and the yet to be discovered.
Like Jazz, its the notes that aren't being played that are important.
But...............to get back to the causewayed camps...........the debate is similarily divided (as far as I remember) but has probably moved on since I studied them. Hopefully some sites that were down as causewayed enclosures back then aren't anymore.