The Archaeological Potential of Secondary Contexts

Module 10 - Outline of Research

Module 10 presents interpretive frameworks for the modelling of landscape archaeology in the early prehistoric period from secondary context archaeological data. Three current models of hominid behaviour are reviewed, and modified interpretive frameworks are presented (where required) for the analysis of secondary context archaeology. The review assesses three recent models:

1. Gamble’s (1999) heuristic framework, linking locales and regions through the rhythms of social and technological behaviour.

2. White & Schreve’s (2000) framework of hominid colonisation, settlement and abandonment of Britain during the Pleistocene.

3. Ashton & Lewis’ (2002) model of late Middle Pleistocene population decline and possible strategies for re-colonisation.

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