Making One's Way in the World : The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People.
Bell, Martin.
Making One's Way in the World : The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Steps towards understanding:routeways in practice, theory and life -- Background -- Introduction -- False paths -- Taking stock and steps forward -- Environmental and geoarchaeology -- Landscape archaeology -- Theoretical perspectives -- Anthropology: the contribution of Tim Ingold -- Landscape change and clues to movement -- Agency and niche construction: human and non-human -- Cognition: thinking through things -- How literature and art help us to think about movement -- Timescale, dating and spatial scale -- Terminology -- Conclusions -- Chapter organisation -- 2. Walks in the temperate rainforest:developing concepts of niche constructionand linear environmental manipulation -- Introduction: why the American North-west Coast? -- The Douglas Map -- The area and its archaeology -- Trails and prairies -- Plant utilisation -- Elsewhere in North America -- Palaeoenvironmental perspectives -- The social significance of routes -- Conclusions -- 3. Niche construction and place making:hunter-gatherer routeways in North-west Europe -- Introduction -- Anthropological perspectives -- Topographic factors and 'natural routeways' -- The wildwood, disturbance factors and routeways -- Woodland manipulation and management -- The broad spectrum revolution and niche construction -- Hunter-gatherer plant use -- Hunter-gatherer vegetation disturbance in Britain -- Case study: Kennet valley -- Case study: A Welsh model of river valley based mobility -- Continental Europe -- Mobility and sedentism -- Artefact areas and 'monuments' -- Isotopes and mobility -- Material culture and movement -- Conclusions -- 4. Footprints of people and animals asevidence of mobility -- Introduction -- Trace fossils -- Formation processes and terminology -- Recording methodology. Dating and timing -- Identification and interpretation -- Associated animals -- Palaeolithic footprint-tracks on open sites -- Holocene hunter-gatherer-fishers -- Case Study: Mesolithic paths in the Severn Estuary -- Footprint-tracks in later prehistoric contexts -- Case Study: seasonal pastoralists in the Severn Estuary -- Other later prehistoric examples -- Footprint-tracks in the Americas -- Footprints: perceptual and symbolic aspects -- Conclusions -- 5. Early farmers: mobility, site location andantecedent activities -- Introduction -- Case Study: the Ice Man -- Skeletal, isotopic and DNA evidence for Neolithic mobility -- Neolithic landscapes in Britain -- Neolithic monuments in Britain -- Case Study: Avebury Henge, Wiltshire -- Case Study: Stonehenge, Wiltshire -- Geological evidence for Neolithic mobility -- Conclusions -- 6. Wetland trackways and communication -- Introduction -- Wheeled vehicles -- Trackways dates -- Mesolithic trackways? -- Neolithic trackways in mainland Europe -- Neolithic trackways in the British Isles -- Bronze Age and Iron Age trackways in northern Europe -- Bronze Age and Iron Age trackways in the British Isles -- Case Study: Somerset Levels -- Case Study: Severn Estuary -- Later Prehistoric trackways in Ireland -- Bridges, post alignments and associated ritual deposits -- Conclusions -- 7. Barrow alignments as clues to Bronze Age routes -- Introduction -- Denmark -- Case Study: Kilen, a Bronze Age cross roads in Jutland -- Germany -- Netherlands -- Case Study: Veluwe and Hondsrug barrow roads -- North European connections -- England and Wales -- Conclusions -- 8. Trackways in later prehistoric agricultural landscapes -- Introduction -- Agents of transformation: horses, carts and chariots -- Hollow ways -- Yorkshire Wolds -- Coaxial fields and droveways in lowland Britain -- Survival of coaxial field systems. Ridgeways -- Case Study: the Wiltshire and Oxfordshire Ridgeway -- The origins of Roman roads in Britain -- Conclusions -- 9. Maritime and riverine connectivity andthe allure of the exotic -- Introduction -- Riverine transport -- Log boats -- Hide boats -- Sewn plank boats in the British Isles -- Possible wrecks round Britain -- Landing places in Britain -- Artefact distributions in Scandinavia -- Transported things in Britain and Europe -- Scandinavia: ships and rock art -- Conclusions: maritime connections and cultures -- 10. A case study of the Wealden district insouth-east England -- Introduction -- The South Downs -- Case Studies: Bishopstone and Bullock Down 'ghost routes' -- Other downland routes -- The Rother valley -- Land allotment, tracks and fields in the Low Weald -- The North Downs -- A case study in multi-method dating: Lyminge, Kent -- Riverine and maritime connections -- Conclusions -- 11. Conclusions: why paths matter -- Bodily engagement, perception, anthropology and literature -- Steps forward -- Multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary approaches -- Landscape structures and retrogressive analysis -- 'Natural routes' and ridgeways -- Droveways -- Ethnohistory of Lesser Transhumance -- Excavation -- Linear environmental archaeology -- Geoarchaeological approaches to human and landscape connectivity -- Movement as niche construction -- Critical thresholds -- Route to sustainable heritage and nature conservation -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781789254037
Prehistoric peoples.
Animal migration.
Human beings-Migrations.
Electronic books.
GN740 .B455 2020
930.1
Making One's Way in the World : The Footprints and Trackways of Prehistoric People. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Steps towards understanding:routeways in practice, theory and life -- Background -- Introduction -- False paths -- Taking stock and steps forward -- Environmental and geoarchaeology -- Landscape archaeology -- Theoretical perspectives -- Anthropology: the contribution of Tim Ingold -- Landscape change and clues to movement -- Agency and niche construction: human and non-human -- Cognition: thinking through things -- How literature and art help us to think about movement -- Timescale, dating and spatial scale -- Terminology -- Conclusions -- Chapter organisation -- 2. Walks in the temperate rainforest:developing concepts of niche constructionand linear environmental manipulation -- Introduction: why the American North-west Coast? -- The Douglas Map -- The area and its archaeology -- Trails and prairies -- Plant utilisation -- Elsewhere in North America -- Palaeoenvironmental perspectives -- The social significance of routes -- Conclusions -- 3. Niche construction and place making:hunter-gatherer routeways in North-west Europe -- Introduction -- Anthropological perspectives -- Topographic factors and 'natural routeways' -- The wildwood, disturbance factors and routeways -- Woodland manipulation and management -- The broad spectrum revolution and niche construction -- Hunter-gatherer plant use -- Hunter-gatherer vegetation disturbance in Britain -- Case study: Kennet valley -- Case study: A Welsh model of river valley based mobility -- Continental Europe -- Mobility and sedentism -- Artefact areas and 'monuments' -- Isotopes and mobility -- Material culture and movement -- Conclusions -- 4. Footprints of people and animals asevidence of mobility -- Introduction -- Trace fossils -- Formation processes and terminology -- Recording methodology. Dating and timing -- Identification and interpretation -- Associated animals -- Palaeolithic footprint-tracks on open sites -- Holocene hunter-gatherer-fishers -- Case Study: Mesolithic paths in the Severn Estuary -- Footprint-tracks in later prehistoric contexts -- Case Study: seasonal pastoralists in the Severn Estuary -- Other later prehistoric examples -- Footprint-tracks in the Americas -- Footprints: perceptual and symbolic aspects -- Conclusions -- 5. Early farmers: mobility, site location andantecedent activities -- Introduction -- Case Study: the Ice Man -- Skeletal, isotopic and DNA evidence for Neolithic mobility -- Neolithic landscapes in Britain -- Neolithic monuments in Britain -- Case Study: Avebury Henge, Wiltshire -- Case Study: Stonehenge, Wiltshire -- Geological evidence for Neolithic mobility -- Conclusions -- 6. Wetland trackways and communication -- Introduction -- Wheeled vehicles -- Trackways dates -- Mesolithic trackways? -- Neolithic trackways in mainland Europe -- Neolithic trackways in the British Isles -- Bronze Age and Iron Age trackways in northern Europe -- Bronze Age and Iron Age trackways in the British Isles -- Case Study: Somerset Levels -- Case Study: Severn Estuary -- Later Prehistoric trackways in Ireland -- Bridges, post alignments and associated ritual deposits -- Conclusions -- 7. Barrow alignments as clues to Bronze Age routes -- Introduction -- Denmark -- Case Study: Kilen, a Bronze Age cross roads in Jutland -- Germany -- Netherlands -- Case Study: Veluwe and Hondsrug barrow roads -- North European connections -- England and Wales -- Conclusions -- 8. Trackways in later prehistoric agricultural landscapes -- Introduction -- Agents of transformation: horses, carts and chariots -- Hollow ways -- Yorkshire Wolds -- Coaxial fields and droveways in lowland Britain -- Survival of coaxial field systems. Ridgeways -- Case Study: the Wiltshire and Oxfordshire Ridgeway -- The origins of Roman roads in Britain -- Conclusions -- 9. Maritime and riverine connectivity andthe allure of the exotic -- Introduction -- Riverine transport -- Log boats -- Hide boats -- Sewn plank boats in the British Isles -- Possible wrecks round Britain -- Landing places in Britain -- Artefact distributions in Scandinavia -- Transported things in Britain and Europe -- Scandinavia: ships and rock art -- Conclusions: maritime connections and cultures -- 10. A case study of the Wealden district insouth-east England -- Introduction -- The South Downs -- Case Studies: Bishopstone and Bullock Down 'ghost routes' -- Other downland routes -- The Rother valley -- Land allotment, tracks and fields in the Low Weald -- The North Downs -- A case study in multi-method dating: Lyminge, Kent -- Riverine and maritime connections -- Conclusions -- 11. Conclusions: why paths matter -- Bodily engagement, perception, anthropology and literature -- Steps forward -- Multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary approaches -- Landscape structures and retrogressive analysis -- 'Natural routes' and ridgeways -- Droveways -- Ethnohistory of Lesser Transhumance -- Excavation -- Linear environmental archaeology -- Geoarchaeological approaches to human and landscape connectivity -- Movement as niche construction -- Critical thresholds -- Route to sustainable heritage and nature conservation -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781789254037
Prehistoric peoples.
Animal migration.
Human beings-Migrations.
Electronic books.
GN740 .B455 2020
930.1