The Early Field Systems of the Stonehenge Landscape

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Landscapes (United Kingdom) Pub Date : 2017-07-03 DOI:10.1080/14662035.2018.1429719

David Roberts, J. Last, N. Linford, J. Bedford, B. Bishop, Judith Dobie, E. Dunbar, A. Forward, P. Linford, P. Marshall, S. Mays, A. Payne, R. Pelling, P. Reimer, Michael Russell, Sharon Soutar, Andrew Valdez-Tullett, J. Vallender, Fay Worley

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Recent survey, excavation and analysis in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS) during 2015 and 2016 has revealed new details of landscape structuration and the deposition of the dead during the Middle Bronze Age. The research reported here demonstrates the existence of early fields or enclosures in the eastern part of the WHS, that was previously thought to be an area of little agricultural or domestic activity in the Bronze Age. These features were succeeded by a major ditch system in which two individuals were buried, an unusual way of dealing with the dead in the Middle Bronze Age. At the same time, the body of a perinatal infant was deposited in a palisade ditch in the western part of the WHS. The paper explores how these actions help elucidate a period of significant change in the landscape around Stonehenge, during which natural features, ancestral monuments and the recent dead were enmeshed in complex ways of bounding and dividing the landscape.

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巨石阵景观的早期田野系统

摘要最近在2015年和2016年对巨石阵世界遗产进行的调查、挖掘和分析揭示了青铜时代中期景观结构和死者沉积的新细节。这里报道的研究表明，WHS东部存在早期的田地或围栏，此前人们认为这是青铜时代几乎没有农业或家庭活动的地区。这些特征之后是一个主要的沟渠系统，其中埋葬了两个人，这是青铜时代中期处理死者的一种不同寻常的方式。与此同时，一具围产期婴儿的尸体被存放在WHS西部的栅栏沟中。本文探讨了这些行动如何有助于阐明巨石阵周围景观发生重大变化的时期，在此期间，自然特征、祖先纪念碑和最近的死者以复杂的方式包围和分割景观。

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Landscapes (United Kingdom) Arts and Humanities-History

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期刊介绍： The study of past landscapes – and their continuing presence in today’s landscape - is part of one of the most exciting interdisciplinary subjects. The integrated study of landscape has real practical applications for a society navigating a changing world, able to contribute to understanding landscape and helping shape its future. It unites the widest range of subjects in both Arts and Sciences, including archaeologists, ecologists, geographers, sociologists, cultural and environmental historians, literature specialists and artists.