18th May 2012, 05:45 PM
and of course where there's layers surviving the stuff's everywhere (eg. see Thorpe Thewles)....think Iron Age people were mainly just messy and certainly hadn't invented dustmen....in half the stuff I've spent the day reading whole socio/behavioral structures seem to have been postulated on the basis of the position of a couple of tiny potsherds - and why would communities be 'making statements of their social identity' by hiding a couple of tiny bits of crappy black poorly fired undecorated pots somewhere where no one from another community would be able to find them anyway? A b****y-great big sign or a few heads on posts would surely have worked rather better? - ah, that'll be the great big chalk horses and naked blokes with big clubs come in then.....