Integrating Social and Environmental Archaeologies: Reconsidering Deposition

This volume developed from a session on the role that environmental archaeology can play in integrated
investigations of 'ritual' deposits, at the Association of Environmental Archaeologists (AEA) conference in
Exeter, 2006. The session drew together a wide range of speakers, all of whom had a particular take or example of the use of environmental evidence in the study of 'ritual'. 1) Introduction: Integrating social and Environmental Archaeologies (M. Maltby and J. Morris); 2) The use of archaeological and zooarchaeological data in the interpretation of Dún Ailinne, an Iron Age royal site in Co. Kildare, Ireland (P. Crabtree, S. A. Johnston and D. V. Campana); 3) Associated bone groups: beyond the Iron Age (J. Morris); 4) Pits and wells (M. Maltby); 5) New light on an old rite: reanalysis of an Iron Age burial group from Blewburton Hill, Oxfordshire (R. Bendrey, S. Leach and K. Clark); 6) Structured Deposition or Casual Disposal of Human Remains? A Case Study of Four Iron Age Sites from southern England (A. Russell); 7) Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex (R. Madgwick); 8) More ritual rubbish? Exploring the taphonomic history, context formation processes and 'specialness' of deposits including human and animal bone in Iron Age pits (C. Randall); 9) The politics of the everyday: exploring 'midden' space in Late Bronze Age Wiltshire (K. Waddington).