16th December 2014, 01:59 PM
In brief TIME running out.....
When they represent a statistically representative sample of the total.................the fun is in disproving theories and getting closer to what is left (however improbable)
Coming soon.....extrapolating what has happened in recent studies/papers and what is likely to happen next. Not delved too deep into the science or the debate yet...found a paper where grain from all over Europe (including Lismore Fields and Windmill Hill) were tested. I think all showed evidence that the grain was grown with artificial manuring and irrigation...something (I think) unlikely to have been possibly by nomads.
It could be just that, dating, databases and a representative statistical sample of the sites are not yet big, strong or accurate enough yet. What percentage of the data is lying untouched in the grey literature?
But yep me too, diversity I feel is the key.....you listening Mr Thomas and crew, what happened in Wiltshire is probably not the same as what happened elsewhere.
Sorry, was teasing. }
P Prentice Wrote:when will the databases be big enough? where's the fun in that - for us?
When they represent a statistically representative sample of the total.................the fun is in disproving theories and getting closer to what is left (however improbable)
P Prentice Wrote:thousands of charred grains artificially manured??
Coming soon.....extrapolating what has happened in recent studies/papers and what is likely to happen next. Not delved too deep into the science or the debate yet...found a paper where grain from all over Europe (including Lismore Fields and Windmill Hill) were tested. I think all showed evidence that the grain was grown with artificial manuring and irrigation...something (I think) unlikely to have been possibly by nomads.
P Prentice Wrote:i am happy to talk about a diverse neolithic with discreet areas of semi permanent settlement where pioneer agriculturalists from europe set up farmsteads or took to shepherding amongst the mesolithic indiginous. i would see the production of cereal crop as a much later development that slowly spread from the later neolithic. i think the transition was mostly about controling livestock and the slow process of transforming the wildwood into fodder.
It could be just that, dating, databases and a representative statistical sample of the sites are not yet big, strong or accurate enough yet. What percentage of the data is lying untouched in the grey literature?
But yep me too, diversity I feel is the key.....you listening Mr Thomas and crew, what happened in Wiltshire is probably not the same as what happened elsewhere.
P Prentice Wrote:ritual based economy?? not ever
Sorry, was teasing. }