Brown, A. Douglas. (2002). Mesolithic to Bronze Age Human Activity and Impact at the Wetland Dryland Edge Investigation at Llandevenny. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 13. Vol 13, pp. 41-46. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069497. Cite this via datacite
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Mesolithic to Bronze Age Human Activity and Impact at the Wetland Dryland Edge Investigation at Llandevenny | |||||
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investigations at Llandevenny | |||||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 13 | |||||
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Archaeology in the Severn Estuary | |||||
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This short paper details the results of initial fieldwork at Llandevenny, southeast Wales, undertaken as part of the author's postgraduate research in the Archaeology Department, The University of Reading, supervised by Prof. Martin Bell and Dr. Petra Dark. The research is concerned with understanding the ways in which human communities were utilising the wetland and associated dryland environments of the Severn Estuary from the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age. The focus, in particular, is on the pollen, macrofossil, micro-charcoal and artefactual evidence for human activity and impact (eg fire events, clearances, agricultural activity) in close proximity to the wetland-dryland edge, and from selected intertidal sites. Prior to current research, Barland's Farm, Vurlong Reen (Walker et al 1998) and Caldicot (Nayling and Caseldine 1997) represented the only palaeoenvironmental studies undertaken along the northern margins of the Gwent Levels. However, despite such studies, there remains a general paucity of research concerning evidence for human activity and impact from wetland-dryland edge sites in comparison to both palaeoenvironmental and archaeological work undertaken from upland and coastal/intertidal contexts (eg Bell et al 2000;Caseldine 1990; Crampton and Webley 1966; Scaife 1994; Smith and Cloutman 1988; Smith and Morgan 1989). In intertidal contexts the associated archaeology is often well exposed and abundant. As a consequence, whilst we may have a reasonable understanding of the pattern of human activity within the former wetland, we have far less understanding of the relationship between these activities and those which occurred on the neighbouring dryland. As such, the present study will be significant, not just in advancing our understanding of the relationships between human activity on the wetlands and associated drylands, but also in providing additional information on potential patterns of human landuse, settlement and mobility within the wider landscape during prehistory. | |||||
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