distinctive regional traditions

[P Prentice]

but how long do you have to stay in one place for that place to be called a settlement? if you visit the same building once per year is that building a settlement? if you pitch your tent at the same place each year, or twice a year, is that place a settlement?
just because some cereal seeds got mixed in some clay that then bacame a pot does that mean the potter was a farmer? or her neighbour, family friend, cousin ....? if cereals where elite commodoties how far would they be traded? were they grown in arenas - we might call causewayed camp or cursus?
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