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Special issue: landscape and land use --
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Subtitle:
geoarchaeological approaches to human impact
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Geoarchaeology
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20 (2)
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Journal
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Issue Editor:
Rolfe D Mandel
Paul Goldberg
E A (III) Bettis
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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2005
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.v20:2/issuetoc
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26 May 2005
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The contribution of geoarchaeology to understanding the environmental history and archaeological resources of the Trent Valley, U.K.
Andy J Howard
93 - 107
Provides a review of the contribution that geoarchaeological research has played in elucidating the landscape history of the Trent Valley. Ameliorating climate in the immediate postglacial led to the expansion of mixed deciduous woodland across the valley floor and the development of an anastomosing channel. In the Lower Trent, fluvial and vegetation development may have been influenced by sea-level change. Around 4000 BC, the character of the valley floor changed, demonstrated by the dating of tree trunks interbedded within gravel deposits. Synchronicity of changing geomorphological and hydrological processes is suggested, and, while the causal mechanism of this change are not fully understood, tree trunks which were clearly felled have been identified in the valley and provide significant evidence. The later prehistoric and historic archaeological remains, including fishweirs, bridges, and mill dams, point to increasing human activity, and environmental evidence documents the increasing effects of agriculture on the catchment.
New perspectives on Holocene landscape development in the southern English chalklands; the upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset
Charles A I French
H Lewis
109 - 134
A combination of on- and off-site palaeoenvironmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen valley of Dorset has begun to indicate a different model of prehistoric landscape development to those previously put forward for this part of the southern English chalk downlands. Woodland growth in the earlier Holocene appears to have been slower and patchier than the presumed model of full climax deciduous woodland rapidly attained in a warming environment. With open areas still strongly present in the Mesolithic, the area witnessed its first exploitation, thus slowing and altering soil development. Consequently, many areas perhaps never developed thick, well-structured, brown forest earths, but more probably thin brown earths. By the later Neolithic period, these soils had become thin rendzinas, largely as a consequence of human exploitation and the predominance of pastoral land use. The early presence of thinner and less well-developed soils over large areas of downland removes the necessity for envisaging extensive soil erosion and the accumulation of thick colluvial and alluvial deposits in the dry valleys and valley floor as often postulated. If there were major changes in the vegetation and soil complexes in this area of chalk downland, these had already occurred by the Neolithic rather than the Bronze Age as often suggested, and the area has remained relatively stable ever since. This has major implications for models of prehistoric land use in the southern chalkland region, such as a much greater degree of stability in prehistoric and historic times, variability within sub-regions, and differences between different parts of the chalk downlands than had previously been envisaged.