Multi-temporality and material culture : an investigation of continuity and change in later prehistoric Lancashire
This thesis investigates the interrelationship between the later prehistoric inhabitants of Cheshire and the County Palatine of Lancashire (<i>Lancastria)</i>, and their physical and cultural landscape as it changed through time. It focuses on some of the material properties of that environment, and the way the prehistoric inhabitants responded to the constraints and opportunities that it presented. The emphasis will be on the contextual analysis of the archaeological record, integrating different types of artefact, and different classes of data, because this has the potential to offer new insights into the production and reproduction of small-scale society. The result is a reading of activity in terms of the construction and re-construction of identity at the scales of the individual, group and society. A tension is identified between membership of a wider northern European âBronze Ageâ, and feelings of local affiliation, expressed at the scale of the region through the particular form of material culture placed in burials, and the particular metalwork types selected for deposition. It was through those practices that the identity of places in the landscape was continually reproduced. It was in the selection
Barrowclough, D. A.
Multi-temporality and material culture : an investigation of continuity and change in later prehistoric Lancashire. This thesis investigates the interrelationship between the later prehistoric inhabitants of Cheshire and the County Palatine of Lancashire (<i>Lancastria)</i>, and their physical and cultural landscape as it changed through time. It focuses on some of the material properties of that environment, and the way the prehistoric inhabitants responded to the constraints and opportunities that it presented. The emphasis will be on the contextual analysis of the archaeological record, integrating different types of artefact, and different classes of data, because this has the potential to offer new insights into the production and reproduction of small-scale society. The result is a reading of activity in terms of the construction and re-construction of identity at the scales of the individual, group and society. A tension is identified between membership of a wider northern European âBronze Ageâ, and feelings of local affiliation, expressed at the scale of the region through the particular form of material culture placed in burials, and the particular metalwork types selected for deposition. It was through those practices that the identity of places in the landscape was continually reproduced. It was in the selection
multi temporality material_culture investigation continuity_change later_prehistoric lancashire investigates interrelationship later_prehistoric inhabitant cheshire county lancashire physical cultural_landscape change_time focus material_property environment way prehistoric inhabitant respond constraint opportunity_present emphasis contextual_analysis archaeological_record integrate different_type artefact different class data potential offer_new insight production reproduction small_scale society read activity term construction construction_identity scale individual_group society tension identify membership wider northern_european bronze_age feel local affiliation express scale region particular_form material_culture place burial particular metalwork type select deposition practice identity place_landscape continually reproduce selection