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The Archaeology of Innovation

Peoples & Things

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What's Going on in the Roman Cornwall?

There seems to be a certain amount of social pressure as they compete with each other that none of them ever become. Even as there are these kind of scattered references to the king of this and the king of that, we can't find them arche ologically. Those people don't exist in ways that look like kings or individuals who are much greater than all the others around them to us. I kind of wonder if something like that's going on in part of that resistance to roman occupation was actually less about the romans and outsiders, per say. And more about this disruption to a sort of quite dynamic, but uther as, quite rigid, hierarchical system.

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