Material and practice led-approach to concealed landscape of the everyday: Shining light on the earlier Neolithic settlement practices in Pembrokshire

该提案旨在为威尔士考古学研究框架小组（“框架”2017）设定的挑战带来新的视角，研究“威尔士新石器时代和早期青铜器时代的日常生活，以及“这如何影响我们可能发现的定居点类型”。在彭布罗克郡的背景下，对日常实践节奏和日常生活过程的“平凡”的含蓄承认，将成为本研究的核心。它将推动对现场档案和人工制品收藏中记录的沉积物质文化的审查。采用以材料和实践为主导的方法，承认相互关联的幸存碎片的递归性质，成为过去社会实践和行动的代理，这些实践和行动可能会识别出景观中通常是短暂的占领痕迹（Barrett 2000:27）。我的研究将在围绕公元前四千年这一时期的“膨胀的期望”（Thomas 2013:2）之间谨慎地进行，以避免分散对细节的注意力，以及对无益描述的诱惑，例如“人类经济生活史上最重要的转变”（Edwards 1988:255）。相反，这项研究将优先研究那些表明日常生活的人工制品类型的模式，在考古记录中，遗址的物质文化与坑、丘和柱洞相关联，作为职业证据的委婉说法。该研究还将回应“框架”（2017）附加条款“确定新的定居区”，承认尽管威尔士新石器时代定居证据的数据集本身比迄今为止认为的要大（Burrow 2003:48），有记录的解释受到地表证据优势的限制，或者来自前几十年的挖掘者，他们缺乏对当前考古记录中更广泛的民族志理解的欣赏（巴林-古尔德，1903）。

This proposal seeks to bring a fresh perspective to a challenge set by the Research Framework for the Archaeology of Wales panel ('The Framework' 2017) to research 'the everyday life in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Wales, and how 'this could influence the types of settlements we are likely to find.' The implicit acknowledgement of the 'ordinariness' of the rhythms of everyday practices and processes of the daily existence of lives led from which traces of occupation emerge will be central to this body of research in the context of Pembrokeshire. It will drive scrutiny into the depositional material culture documented in the site archives and in artefact collections. The adoption of a material and practice led approach acknowledges the recursive nature of surviving fragments in association with one-another becoming proxy for past social practices and actions which may identify the often-ephemeral vestiges of occupation in the landscape (Barrett 2000:27). My study will tread lightly between the 'inflated set of expectations' (Thomas 2013:2) surrounding this period in the fourth millennium BC to avoid distracting from the detail and the lure of unhelpful depictions, such as 'the most important transition of the history of the economic life of people' (Edwards 1988:255). Instead the study will prioritise research on those patterns of artefact type indicative of everyday living where the material culture at sites is associated in the archaeological record with pits, middens and post holes as euphemisms for occupation evidence. The research will also respond to the 'Framework' (2017) rider to 'identify new settlement areas' in an acknowledgement that despite the data set for Neolithic settlement evidence in Wales per se being larger than considered hitherto (Burrow 2003:48), recorded interpretations have been constrained by the limitations of a preponderance of surface evidence or from excavators of previous decades lacking an appreciation of the current wider body of ethnographical understanding in the archaeological record (Baring-Gould 1903).