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

这一提议旨在挑战长期以来建立的新石器时代“居住”的概念，即通过物质文化组合而不是建筑形式来领导约克郡公元前第四个千年期间的仪式纪念碑遗址。基于越来越多的研究，（理查兹和托马斯1984，托马斯1999）和“日常”沉积实践（McFadyen 2007，Harris 2009，Garrow 2012），建议对遗址档案进行比较性的重新审查，以便更精确地叙述人们如何在传统上指定的家庭中生活，（在公元前第四千年在约克郡这包括更早的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）的网站，以及它是如何通过这些做法，这些网站出现。这一审查的关键是所有地点类型的动物群组合。根据最近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）以及传统分配的建筑标签越来越失败，该提案完全定位于将物质文化方法应用于约克郡公元前第四个千年的仪式结构，在撰写本文时，这些结构呈现出令人困惑的家庭和仪式建筑元素。受将早期新石器时代社会理解为短暂的半移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”。通过比较的方法，不同的时间活动模式的网站，我们的理解，在重复的短期行动（通常发现在国内坑网站）的过程中，可以适用于巴罗沟渠，往往保持“开放”沉积较长的时间。巴罗沟渠也可以分解成重复的动作吗？这将如何改变我们对职业的看法以及人们生活的方式？

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?