25th June 2012, 11:17 AM
everybody is making pertinent points and it would seem that neolithic people (and meso and BA for that matter) dug pits. some got filled with material culture and some did not. i think it was ros cleal that pointed out that very often the decoration on neo pots got more elaborate the closer you got to a major monument, and that the fills of pits got more eloborate the closer you got to major monuments. this would suggest that people behaved differently in some places but not so differently cross-regionaly. given that the absence of causewayed enclosures or cursuses or henges or hengiform monuments appears to be real, we can safely assume that regional differences reflect differing aspects of neo life. i quite like the idea of cultifying the neolithic and seeing pottery as non domestic
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