ABSTRACT
We have not finished talking about prehistoric Leskernick; we want to pause to consider our contemporary interactions with the hill and with each other. It will be abundantly clear by now that our interpretations are subjective. Like all interpretations, they are filtered through variable contemporary understandings of the past, of landscape and of social relations. We have no choice: we can only ever attempt a contemporary reworking of the past. So it seemed to us that it was important to try and understand more about our relationship and attitude to landscape, material culture, and other people. It also seemed important to pick apart the sociology of the group enterprise that we undertook at Leskernick. We were using specific archaeological and anthropological techniques. These were not just adjuncts to our endeavours and our interpretations, they were affected by them, and affected them. There has been relatively little study of how practice and interpretation work off each other, and this lacuna seemed worth addressing. We asked two anthropologists, Mike Wilmore and Tony Williams to come on site and to undertake these studies.
