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15 credits – Spring Term

Environmental History: Landscape & Archaeology. 15 credits – Spring Term.

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15 credits – Spring Term

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  1. Environmental History: Landscape & Archaeology 15 credits – Spring Term We live in a world which has been shaped by human hands. This course will start with an introduction to the techniques of environmental reconstruction and environmental archaeology and then look in detail at the development of the British landscape over the last 10,000 years. Where appropriate, information from other temperate areas will be considered (Western Europe, North America and the Atlantic islands)

  2. Environmental History: Landscape & Archaeology • How do we know what the world was like in the past? • How has the British landscape changed in the last 10ky? • How have people managed and changed their environment? Approaches to these questions include: • Getting a temperature curve from beetle remains • Asking how this matches up with pollen records • Wondering how dense the “Wild Wood” was

  3. How accurately can we reconstruct past landscapes? Assessing views of the Caburn in the past The Neolithic – A wilderness of lime forest and glades with jays flying overhead. The late 1700s – Sheep pasture dominates the hills, arable the valleys with wheatears in abundance.

  4. What happens as farming spreads in Europe? • In each time-slice, colour denotes sites recorded as Neolithic for the first time, grey shows sites recorded as Neolithic in earlier time-slices. • As this change in human ecology spreads, what effect does it have on the landscape? • Maps from Turney & Brown (2007) Quat Sci Rev 26 2036-2041

  5. Environmental History: Landscape & Archaeology 15 credits – Spring Term Teaching: Two lectures per week (may be in one session) One 2-hour seminar per week (weeks 2- 8) Assessment: Outline research proposal (1000 words) [submission week 10] Essay (2000 words) [submission Summer Term week 2] Lecturer: Liz Somerville Related courses: Palaeoenvironments & Human Impact (Autumn) Past Lives (Autumn) NB you need to have a knowledge of ecological principles e.g. from taking “Biodiversity: Past & Present” in the first year.

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