| [ history ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): Monami (쿠키몬수타@) 날 짜 (Date): 1996년06월24일(월) 13시10분10초 KDT 제 목(Title): Early Wessex (3) Analysis of the spatial distribution and the size of the long barrows suggests a possible interpretation. Lines drawn between them divide the landscape into several possilble territories, which are roughly equivalent in size. Each monument seems to have been the focal point for social activites and the burial place of the farming community inhabiting the local territory. A group of 20 people would have needed about 50 working days to construct a long barrow. In the early phase of construction there is little suggestion of the ranking of sites or individusls: this was an egalitarian society. The causewayed enclosures may have served as a ritual focus and periodic meeting place for the large group of people represented by one whole cluster of long barrows. ( The 100.000 hours' labor required to construct one could be achieved in 40 working days by 250 people.) This would have been what anthropologists term a tribal or segmentary society. |