Refuse and the formation of middens

• Autores: Stuart Needham, Tony Spence
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 71, Nº 271, 1997, págs. 77-90
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The prodigious quantities of refuse recovered from excavations at Runnymede Bridge, Berkshire, England — and at other late prehistoric British sites — highlight those archaeological entities we call ‘rubbish’ and ‘middens’. What is a ‘midden’? General thoughts on an archaeology of refuse are applied to the specific case of these 1st-millennium BC sites in southern England in an attempt to comprehend their origin and scale in terms of the period's social geography.