| [ history ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): Monami (쿠키몬수타@) 날 짜 (Date): 1996년06월24일(월) 13시33분50초 KDT 제 목(Title): Early Wessex (4) In the later phase(the later Neolithic, c.3000-2000 BC), the long barrows and causewayed camps went out of use. In place of the latter, major ritual enclosures are seen. These were large circular monuments delimited by by a ditch with a bank usually outside it: they are termed henges. Each would have required somethin of the order of 1 million hours of labor for its construction. The labor input suggests the mobilization of the resources of a whole territory. About 300 people working full time for at least a year would be needed: their food would have to be provided for them unless the process were spread over a very long period. This factor and the existence of the ritual centers themselves suggests that one may now speak of a chiefdom society. The central person controlling the central place would be an individual of high rank: the chief. During this period (c.2800 BC) the great earth mound at Sibury Hill was built. According to its excavator, it required 18million hours of work, and was completed within 2 years. A few centuries later (c.2100BC) the great monument at Stonehenge took final shape, whth its circle of stones, representing an even greater labor investment, if the transport of the stones is taken into account. Thei may imply the existence of a paramount chief capable of organizing a workforce drawn from the entire Wessex region. Although burials with rich grave goods directly reflecting the wealth of prominent individuals are not found until the succeeding phase, the Early Bronze Age, the analysis of spatial organization among the monuments, and the consideration fof the labor input contributed by their builders, does allow inferences to be drawn about the social organization of the time. *** Colin Renfrew, Archaeology -theories, Methods and Practice, Thames and ------------------------------------------- Hudson Ltd, 1991, pp. 178~179. ♥♡♥ Ｉ ｗａｎｎａ ｂｅ ｙｏｕｒ ｓｗｅｅｔ ａｍｉ！ ♥♡♥ _ |\ |\ /| _ May God be always with me! | | /| | | | 나에게 과거란 극복되기 위해 존재한다 (^.^) (@_*) (^_~) Monami.co. & snuiwa(큰바우).co. >@< >~< -o- Since 1971 |