ABSTRACT
The demonstration of ‘ cultural continuity5 is now a fashionable exercise dominating much current writing in British archaeology. But concentration on material culture in isolation has tended to obscure underlying economic and social trends, while at the same time changes in economic organization resulting from purely internal developments have also been ignored. In this paper we try to remedy this situation by analysing the developing pattern of land use in two regions of southern England during the period from about 1500 B.C. to a . d . 1000. The areas chosen for study are the county of Wilt shire and south-central Sussex (Fig. 24.1). The problems were investigated by the use of simple geographical models.
