Bell, M. G. (2000). Environmental Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, Progress and Prospects. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 11. Vol 11, pp. 69-103. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069472. Cite this via datacite
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Environmental Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, Progress and Prospects | ||
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progress and prospects | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 11 | ||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary | ||
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69 - 103 | ||
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Past environmental work on the Severn Estuary Levels, much of it in the last decade, is reviewed and areas of particular future potential are identified. The main topics in prehisto,y include sedimentary context, vegetation history (table of pollen site~), faunal evidence (table of faunal evidence), animal husbandry, seasonality, fishing practise, and invertebrates. There is evidence for seasonal (winter) activity in the Mesolithic. In the Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age activity on the wetlands is limited. Clearance associated with pastoralism and some arable is attested on adjacent dryland. From the middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age there was extensive wetland activity associated particularly with seasonal (mainly spring and summer) cattle husbandry. In this landscape bones may be compared with animal footprint tracks and a range of other sources of environmental evidence. Wetland, wetland-edge and dryland bone assemblages are compared, suggesting there are more ovicaprids in the wetland edge and on dry land. The Romano-British landscape was extensively drained: in some areas marine influence was excluded facilitating year-round activity, while elsewhere ditched landscapes seem to have been subject to seasonal marine inundation. Evidence for continuity and change in the Romano-British and later landscape is noted. It is argued that future research should give particular emphasis to the analysis of biota from settlement sites and to the study of wetland/dryland interactions. The value of comparative studies using multiple sources of environmental evidence is clear but in the future resources will need to be tmgeted on particular research questions and priorities. An attempt is made to identify these and the sources of evidence most likely to contribute to their solution. | ||
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2000 | ||
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09 Oct 2017 |
