How Did Bronze-Age Farmers Make A Taboo In The Landscape
5. Conclusion
It is an intriguing theory that bronze-age farmers would want to stay clear of certain zones of taboo in the landscape. And even though not much research has been done on the subject it is not so strange to expect this kind of behaviour to have happened, for even in the contemporary world people have taboos, some of them strong enough to prohibit people from going somewhere. A big problem however is the lack of knowledge about ancient taboos, resulting in us not understanding what factors would and would not move the bronze-age communities to settle somewhere and avoid other places. Though the model turned out to be not very effective, it could still be meaningful in combination with other scraps of information to further it along, because as it stands the model has to deal with too many unknown factors to be effective.
5.1 Archaeological Conclusions
From an archaeological perspective this model did not do so well. While the thesis of this model revolved around the repulsive factors a taboo zone would have, the statistical tests showed the opposite to be true. But even this suggestion might be flawed for we should not forget that the taboo location were not chosen through an extensive study of the taboo landscape, but more …show more content…
However the method is certainly an improvement over cost-distance path analysis because using cost-distance it is near to impossible to acquire the same effect as with the buffers. Another asset of the buffer method is that, after its creation, the buffers can be used or transformed easily into something else to answer a slightly different question as at the moment the buffers are rather bare, but it would be quite easy to transform them into multiple buffers, or even use the buffer zones as a start for other analysis like the
It is an intriguing theory that bronze-age farmers would want to stay clear of certain zones of taboo in the landscape. And even though not much research has been done on the subject it is not so strange to expect this kind of behaviour to have happened, for even in the contemporary world people have taboos, some of them strong enough to prohibit people from going somewhere. A big problem however is the lack of knowledge about ancient taboos, resulting in us not understanding what factors would and would not move the bronze-age communities to settle somewhere and avoid other places. Though the model turned out to be not very effective, it could still be meaningful in combination with other scraps of information to further it along, because as it stands the model has to deal with too many unknown factors to be effective.
5.1 Archaeological Conclusions
From an archaeological perspective this model did not do so well. While the thesis of this model revolved around the repulsive factors a taboo zone would have, the statistical tests showed the opposite to be true. But even this suggestion might be flawed for we should not forget that the taboo location were not chosen through an extensive study of the taboo landscape, but more …show more content…
However the method is certainly an improvement over cost-distance path analysis because using cost-distance it is near to impossible to acquire the same effect as with the buffers. Another asset of the buffer method is that, after its creation, the buffers can be used or transformed easily into something else to answer a slightly different question as at the moment the buffers are rather bare, but it would be quite easy to transform them into multiple buffers, or even use the buffer zones as a start for other analysis like the