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Sutton Common in South Yorkshire is one of the best-known Iron Age
multivallate sites in lowland Britain. This volume describes the
results of the large-scale excavations undertaken there between
1998 and 2003, which have provided unparalleled insights into the
function and meaning of this 4th-century BC 'marsh-fort'. Sutton
Common is described as a place where the social identity of the
local community was reinforced through the construction of the
physical representation of the idea of community, using a
bank-and-ditch arrangement that resembles the defences used
elsewhere, particularly at hillforts. No houses were found within
the enclosure, but some 150 four-post structures were excavated,
many containing deposits of charred grain in one or two of their
postholes. This well-dated site makes significant contributions to
the debates on prehistoric enclosure, cosmology, food storage, and
mortuary practices in prehistoric Britain and Europe.
This innovative study offers an up-to-date analysis of the
archaeology of the North Sea. Robert Van de Noort traces the way
people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the last ice age,
around 10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500.
Van de Noort draws upon archaeological research from many
countries, including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Belgium and France, and addresses topics which
include the first interactions of people with the emerging North
Sea, the origin and development of fishing, the creation of coastal
landscapes, the importance of islands and archipelagos, the
development of seafaring ships and their use by early seafarers and
pirates, and the treatments of boats and ships at the end of their
useful lives.
This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme, which is the
subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues
in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology. Wetland
archaeology has provided some of the most exciting discoveries in
world archaeology, from bog bodies in northern Europe, to
prehistoric and medieval wetland dwellings in central and western
Europe, New Zealand, Japan and the Pacific Northwest. Arguably,
however, the amount of evidence from these sites and the need for
intense multidisciplinary scientific analysis, allied to a general
tendency towards empiricist research, has led to wetland
archaeology being isolated from current theoretical debates.
"Rethinking Wetland Archaeology" shows how wetland studies can be
contextualised within broader geographical, cultural and
theoretical frameworks. It discusses how wetland archaeological
discoveries can be understood in terms of past people's perception
and understanding of landscape, which was not only a source of
economic benefit, but a storehouse of, and a metaphor for, cultural
values and beliefs. It argues that archaeologists interested in the
temporal rhythms of life, and in cultural biographies of place and
objects, should look again at the astonishingly detailed narratives
produced by wetland archaeology. Finally, it considers the past and
future role of wetland archaeologists in contemporary political and
social discourses.
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