Volume 5 deals with aspects of the material culture excavated in the 1995-99 period. In particular it discusses the changing materiality of life at the site over its 1100 years of occupation. It includes a discussion of ceramics and other fired clay material, chipped stone, groundstone, worked bone and basketry. As well as looking at typological and comparative issues in relation to these materials, the chapters explore themes such as the specialisation and scale of production, the engagement in systems of exchange, and consumption, use and deposition. A central question concerns change through time, and the degree and speed of this change. The occupants of the site increasingly get caught up in relations with material objects that start to act back upon them.
- ISBN10 1902937287
- ISBN13 9781902937281
- Publish Date 18 January 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 506
- Language English