15th September 2011, 01:24 PM
P Prentice Wrote:....................Yep I'd agree with you there
causewayed enclosures are - simply enclosures with causeways. they could have had different meanings to even the adjacent communities to those that used them
P Prentice Wrote:any argument, even using the minutia of excavated evidence, concerning the function of any of these features must also adress the fact that our proccupations were not necessarily the same as thos in the past - ie finding cereal grains, pottery, food bones and even quern stones in a rectangular structure does not make it a house in any sense that we have today.
Yep I agree totally especially if those interpreting are talking about the 'meaning'. But from an understanding of the (yet again) formation processes of the deposit and what is in the deposit (if your lucky enough to get stuff) you can usually eliminate several possible functions of your feature leaving a few or maybe just one as being most likely.
With respect to whether a structure was lived in or not this is often possible. With respect to whether the house was permanently lived in or just visited occasionally very difficult unless you have the appropriate evidence.
As to what the structure 'meant' to those using it..............you'd need a time machine!
P Prentice Wrote:banana gullies are widely published and are easily recognised as bona fide features often containing the same kind of material culture as one often finds in the terminal ends of penannular gullies - quite different to the crescent shaped features left by trees - although the jury is still out as to their actual use and meaning
Any examples? A reference to a site report would be handy. I'm really interested in these so-called Banana features as I've never seen one.
See lots of tree-throws though. And part-truncated ring-gullies come to think about it.