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It has taken me more than five years to write this book. During that period I have benefited from many discussions with friends, colleagues and students, and I am grateful to them all for the generosity which they have shown me, with both their time and their ideas.
A number of people have also commented upon earlier drafts of either all or parts of the text, and I am grateful to Barbara Bender, Richard Bradley, Ann Clark, Mark Edmonds, Shannon Fraser, lain MacKenzie, Stephen Shennan and Btuce Trigger for their guidance.
Robin Boast, Roy Entwistle and Keith Ray allowed me to read their unpublished doctoral dissertations, while Alasdair Whittle made available his report on the excavations at Silbury Hill prior to its publication.
Roger Thomas helped with the photography and Lorraine McEwan produced all the line drawings. Ian Hodder`s kindness and support as General Editor, and John Daveys enthusiasm and efficiency at Blackwell made the final stages of writing more pleasurable than I had assumed they could be.
This book has been written in the company of Kathy, Helen and Shona.
Preface
Introduction
1 Processions of the Living ...
The ArchaeologicalVisitor Understanding Avebury
The Structuring of an Architectural Tradition The Organization of Labour
Making an Elite: Silbury Hill
The Question of Objectivity
2 . And of the Dead
The Communal and the Individual Mortuary Rituals
Monuments and the Ancestral Presence The Avebury Region
Conclusion: Images of the Community and the Individual
3 The Archaeology of Ritual Introduction
Fields of Discourse - the Regionalized Nature of Social Practices
Ritual
Ritual Discourse in the Late Neolithic
4 The Beaker Complex: An Archaeological Text
The Beaker Network
Questions of Scale: (1) Physical Distribution
Questions of Scale: (2) Human Agency
The Beaker Problem
5 An End to Remembrance
The Construction of Memory
Burial and the Mapping of Genealogy
Categories of Death
Placing the Dead
6 Time and Place: The Formation of the
Agricultural Landscape
Introduction
On Becoming
On Being
7 Making History
Processual Archaeology
Post-processual Archaeology
Bibliography
Index
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