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Different perceptions of organizing life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

John C. Barrett
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The transformation between the two landscapes of Cranborne Chase, the earlier characterized by ritual and ceremonial monuments the later by an agricultural landscape, encapsulates the most significant transformation in the later prehistory of Britain. Indeed, the emergence of intensive agricultural practices which employ a wider range of crops, achieve increasing levels of crop purity, enclose and manage the land according to new patterns of territoriality, and establish long-lived nucleated settlements, is a more general feature of the European Bronze Age. It was upon this foundation that the agricultural practices of the Iron Age were embedded.

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Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , May 1997 , pp. 49 - 52
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1997

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