Regional Perspectives on Neolithic Pit

The rise to prominence of pits within narratives of the British and Irish Neolithic is well-documented in recent literature. Pits have been cropping up in excavations for centuries, resulting in a very broad spectrum of interpretations but three main factors have led to the recent change in our perception and representation of these features: a broad shift in people's expectations as to what a Neolithic settlement should be; the development of the concept of 'structured deposition', within which pits have played a key role; and a dramatic rise in the number of pits actually known about. Development-led archaeology, and the often very large areas its excavations expose, has simply revealed many, more pits. The 15 papers in this volume explore these inter-related factors and present new thoughts and interprations arising from new analysis of Neolithic pits and their contents.

Foreword	p. v
Preface and acknowledgements	p. ix
List of contributors	p. xi
Introduction: beyond the mundane?	p. 1
Breaking ground: an overview of pits and pit-digging in Neolithic Ireland	p. 13
Sounds from the underground: Neolithic ritual pits and pit-clusters on the Isle of Man and beyond	p. 30
Deposition on a Neolithic settlement site at Green, Isle of Eday, Orkney	p. 43
Big pit, little pit, big pit, little pit…: pit practices in Western Scotland in the 4th millennium BC	p. 51
Within and beyond pits: deposition in lowland Neolithic Scotland	p. 63
Social structures: pits and depositional practice in Neolithic Northumberland	p. 77
Preservation and the pit problem: some examples from the Middle Trent Valley	p. 100
Social fabrics: people and pots at Earlier Neolithic Kilverstone, Norfolk	p. 112
Pits, pots and plant remains: trends in Neolithic deposition in Carmarthenshire, South Wales	p. 126
Place, presenting and pits in the Neolithic of the Severn-Wye region	p. 144
Totemism and food taboos in the Early Neolitihic: a feast of roe deer at the Coneybury 'Anomaly', Wiltshire, Southern Britain	p. 171
Neolithic to early Bronze Age pit deposition practices and the temporality of occupation in the Thames Valley	p. 187
Domesticity in the Neolithic: excavations at Kingsmead Quarry, Horton, Berkshire	p. 200
Concluding discussion: pits and perspective	p. 216
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Regional Perspectives on Neolithic Pit Deposition: Beyond the Mundane

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