Integrating Social and Environmental Archaeologies: Reconsidering Deposition (BAR International Series)

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the Association of Environmental Archaeologists conference in Exeter, 2006. The nine papers within this volume consider how social archaeological questions can be investigated utilising environmental remains. Introduction: Integrating Social And Environmental Archaeology / M. Maltby And J. Morris -- The Use Of Archaeological And Zooarchaeological Data In The Interpretation Of Dún Ailinne, An Iron Age Royal Site In Co. Kildare, Ireland / P. Crabtree, S.a. Johnston And D.v. Campana -- Associated Bone Groupings: Beyond The Iron Age / J. Morris -- Pits And Wells / M. Maltby -- New Light On An Old Rite: Reanalysis Of An Iron Age Burial Group From Blewburton Hill, Oxfordshire / R. Bendrey, S. Leach And K. Clark -- Structured Deposition Or Casual Deposition Of Human Remains? A Case Study Of Four Iron Age Sites From Southern England / A. Russell -- Bone Modification And The Conceptual Relationship Between Humans And Animals In Iron Age Wessex / R. Madgwick -- More Ritual Rubbish? Exploring The Taphonomic History, Context Formation Processes And 'specialness' Of Deposits Including Human And Animal Bone In Iron Age Pits / C. Randall -- The Politics Of The Everyday: Exploring 'midden' Space In Late Bronze Age Wiltshire / K. Waddington. Edited By James Morris, Mark Maltby. This Volume Developed From A Session ... At The Association Of Environmental Archaeologists (aea) Conference In Exeter, 2006--p. 1. Includes Bibliographical References. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1. Integrating social and environmental archaeologies 2. The use of archaeological and zooarchaeological data in the interpretation of Dún Ailinne, an Iron Age royal site in Co. Kildare, Ireland. 3. Associated bone groups; beyond the Iron Age 4. Zooarchaeology and the Interpretation of Depositions in Shafts 5. New light on an old rite: reanalysis of an Iron Age burial group from Blewburton Hill, Oxfordshire 6. Structured deposition or casual disposal of human remains? A case study of four Iron Age sites from southern England 7. Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex 8. More ritual rubbish? Exploring the taphonomic history, context formation processes and ‘specialness’ of deposits including human and animal bone in Iron Age pits 9. The politics of the everyday: exploring ‘midden’ space in Late Bronze Age Wiltshire