Life and Death in the `Neolithic': Dwelling-Scapes in Southern Britain

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University of Sydney, Australia Abstract Using recent work relating to subsistence and residential patterns in the British `Neolithic', I argue that the dispersal of human skeletal material, characteristic of the `Neolithic' in southern Britain, can be seen as the `fall-out' of a dispersed and mobile pattern of residence. This pattern of human skeletal material can therefore be viewed independently from any speciÆc complex and multiple-stage mortuary processes. Further, the role of the stone, timber and earthen constructions that frame this mobile `dwelling-scape' is viewed in relation to their changing visibility as the vegetation changed. I reach the conclusion that the `Neolithic' of southern Britain was one of dispersed and mobile human activity within a dwelling-scape, which was itself in constant ÿux.

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