A zooarchaeological re-examination of occupational fluidity between fourth millennium BC domestic and ritual sites in Yorkshire

对公元前四千年约克郡家庭和仪式场所之间职业流动性的动物考古学重新审视

• 批准号: 2278059
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2278059
• 关键词: zooarchaeological; re; examination; occupational; fluidity

This proposal seeks to challenge long established concepts of Neolithic 'dwelling' as distinct to and separate from ritual monument sites during the fourth millennium BC in Yorkshire by leading with material culture assemblages rather than architectural forms. Building on a growing body of research considering ritual (Richards and Thomas 1984, Thomas 1999) and 'everyday' depositional practices (McFadyen 2007, Harris 2009, Garrow 2012), it is proposed a comparative re-examination of the site archives will allow for more refined narratives for how people lived at traditionally assigned domestic (during the fourth millennium BC in Yorkshire this includes earlier Neolithic houses and pit sites) and ritual (in the form of long and round barrows) sites, and on how it was through those practices that these sites emerged. Key to this scrutiny are the faunal assemblages from all site types. In line with the recent call for a reappraisal of our understanding of Neolithic architecture (Neolithic Study Group Autumn Meeting 2018) and the growing failure of traditionally assigned architectural labels, this proposal is perfectly positioned to apply a material culture approach to Yorkshire's fourth millennium BC ritual structures which at the time of writing present a bewildering collection of both domestic and ritual architectural elements. Inspired by trends to understand earlier Neolithic society as transient semi-mobile pastoralists (Edmonds 1999), this project wishes to investigate these sites in an 'open-minded' way, through the breaking down of architectural categories. This will permit the consideration of occupational 'fluidity' between differing sites. Through a comparative approach to sites with differing temporal activity patterns, our understanding of the processes involved in repetitive short-term actions (typically found at domestic pit sites) can be applied to barrow ditches which often remain 'open' to deposition for longer periods of time. Can barrow ditches be broken down into repetitive action too? And how would this change how we perceive occupation and the ways people went about their lives?

该提案旨在通过以物质文化组合而非建筑形式为主导，挑战长期以来建立的新石器时代“住宅”概念，该概念与公元前四千年约克郡的仪式纪念碑遗址不同且分离。基于越来越多的考虑仪式（Richards and Thomas 1984，Thomas 1999）和“日常”沉积实践（McFadyen 2007，Harris 2009，Garrow 2012）的研究，建议对遗址档案进行比较性重新审查，以便对人们如何在传统指定的家庭生活（公元前四千年期间的约克郡，包括更早的家庭）进行更精确的叙述。新石器时代的房屋和 坑遗址）和仪式（以长而圆的手推车的形式）遗址，以及这些遗址是如何通过这些实践而出现的。这项审查的关键是来自所有地点类型的动物群。最近有人呼吁重新评估我们对新石器时代建筑的理解（新石器时代研究小组2018年秋季会议），以及传统建筑标签的日益失败，这一提案完美地定位于将物质文化方法应用于约克郡公元前四千年的仪式结构，在撰写本文时，该建筑呈现出一系列令人眼花缭乱的家庭和仪式建筑元素。受到将早期新石器时代社会理解为短暂的半流动牧民的趋势的启发（Edmonds 1999），该项目希望通过打破建筑类别，以“开放”的方式调查这些遗址。这将允许考虑不同地点之间的职业“流动性”。通过对具有不同时间活动模式的地点的比较方法，我们对重复性短期行为（通常在国内坑点发现）所涉及的过程的理解可以应用于通常在较长时间内保持“开放”沉积的古坟沟。手推车沟渠也可以分解为重复动作吗？这将如何改变我们对职业的看法以及人们的生活方式？