The Environment of Early Man in the British Isles

Acheulian agriculture animals antler archaeological areas artefacts Atlantic period barrows birch Boreal boulder clay Britain British Isles Bronze Age buried soil cave cereal Chalk changes Clactonian clearance climate cultivation deposits Devensian Glaciation Dimbleby distribution early elm decline enclosure environment environmental episode erosion Evans evidence example exploitation farming fauna fields flint flooding forest glacial Godwin grassland habitats hazel Highland Hoxnian Interglacial ice sheets Interstadial Ipswichian Ireland Iron Age Kerney known lake land landscape Late-glacial later layer limestone Loam Lower Palaeolithic lowland lynchets Marks Tey medieval Mesolithic metres Middle Gravel millennium bc Neolithic origin pasture peat period pine plant Pleistocene plough pollen analysis pollen diagram pollen record Post-glacial prehistoric radiocarbon reindeer river rock sand sea level sediments sequence settlement solifluxion Somerset Levels species stone surface Swanscombe took place Tornewton trees Upper Palaeolithic Upton Warren valleys vegetation West Whiteparish Wolstonian Wolstonian Glaciation woodland Yorkshire zone