Pits, settlement and deposition during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in East Anglia
The fundamental aim of this piece of research is to consider pit sites in substantial detail in order to answer such questions. In doing so, a number of other important issues are confronted, including the nature of settlement/landscape occupation, and the role of deposition as a practice. In East Anglia, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age pits have been found in particularly large numbers. At the same time, in comparison to other regions, relatively few monuments are known (during the Neolithic at least). The region is, therefore, a particularly appropriate place in which to investigate sites of this kind: the range of evidence is broad and of a high quality, while pits were arguably an even more important feature of the period here than elsewhere. The study operates at several different scales, ranging from the region to the individual feature. At the broadest level, changes through time in terms of the number of pits in each site, the overall number of sites, and their geographical locations are discussed. The patterns observed are then contextualised in relation to other aspects of the contemporary landscape (monuments, artefact scatters, structures, flint mines, etc.), allowing insight into the kinds of place
Garrow, D. J.
Pits, settlement and deposition during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in East Anglia. The fundamental aim of this piece of research is to consider pit sites in substantial detail in order to answer such questions. In doing so, a number of other important issues are confronted, including the nature of settlement/landscape occupation, and the role of deposition as a practice. In East Anglia, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age pits have been found in particularly large numbers. At the same time, in comparison to other regions, relatively few monuments are known (during the Neolithic at least). The region is, therefore, a particularly appropriate place in which to investigate sites of this kind: the range of evidence is broad and of a high quality, while pits were arguably an even more important feature of the period here than elsewhere. The study operates at several different scales, ranging from the region to the individual feature. At the broadest level, changes through time in terms of the number of pits in each site, the overall number of sites, and their geographical locations are discussed. The patterns observed are then contextualised in relation to other aspects of the contemporary landscape (monuments, artefact scatters, structures, flint mines, etc.), allowing insight into the kinds of place
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