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

材料和实践主导了日常隐秘景观的研究：揭示彭布罗克郡早期新石器时代的定居实践

• 批准号: 2609155
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2609155
• 关键词: Material; practice; led; approach; concealed

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).

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，以研究“威尔士新石器时代和早期青铜时代的日常生活，以及这如何影响我们可能找到的定居点类型。“对日常实践的节奏和日常生活的过程的‘平凡性’的含蓄承认，从这些节奏和过程中出现了占领的痕迹，这将是彭布罗克郡背景下这一研究体系的核心。它将推动对遗址档案和人工制品收藏中记录的沉积物质文化的审查。采用以物质和实践为主导的方法，承认了幸存碎片相互关联的递归性质-成为过去社会实践和行动的代表，这可能确定景观中经常短暂的占领痕迹（Barrett 2000：27）。我的研究将在围绕公元前4000年这一时期的“膨胀的预期”（托马斯，2013：2）之间谨慎行事，以避免分散对细节的注意力，避免受到无益的猜测的诱惑，例如“人类经济生活历史上最重要的转变”（爱德华兹，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，其中遗址的物质文化在考古记录中与坑，坑和柱孔有关，作为占领证据的委婉说法。该研究还将回应“框架”（2017年）骑手“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所考虑的要大（Burrow 2003：48），但记录的解释受到表面证据优势的限制，或者来自过去几十年的挖掘者，缺乏对考古记录中当前更广泛的民族志理解的理解（Baring-Gould 1903）。