SUMMARY: This paper engages with the historical archaeology of the British Isles (With one or two exceptions, I follow the usage of Kearney 2006 in preferring the term ‘British Isles’ to ‘Atlantic archipelago’, preferring the more ideologically loaded, but familiar, term over the arguably more neutral but obscure term.) as a whole. It advocates an approach that foregrounds geography and political economy, via quite simple and traditional ways of mapping variation, for example the work of Cyril Fox. It seeks to play to archaeology’s strengths: rather than seeking abstract origins, it examines how practices later labelled as ‘colonial’ emerged from an intersection of concrete material practices.

中文翻译：

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地理，政治经济与“英国个性”

摘要：本文涉及不列颠群岛的历史考古学（有一个或两个例外，我沿用了Kearney 2006的说法，将“不列颠群岛”一词改为“大西洋群岛”，而在意识形态上较为偏重但又熟悉，可以说是比较中性但模糊的术语。）它提倡一种通过非常简单而传统的变化图绘制方法来突出地理和政治经济学的方法，例如西里尔·福克斯（Cyril Fox）的作品。它试图发挥考古学的优势：它不是在寻求抽象的起源，而是研究后来被称为“殖民地”的实践是如何从具体的物质实践的交叉点中出现的。