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Living with the Flood - Mesolithic to post-medieval archaeological remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire - a wetland/dryland interface (Paperback)
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Living with the Flood - Mesolithic to post-medieval archaeological remains at Mill Lane, Sawston, Cambridgeshire - a wetland/dryland interface (Paperback)
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The site at Mill Lane, Sawston, represents millennia of human
activity within a dynamic and changing landscape setting. River
valleys have been a focus for human activity since the early
Holocene and, in addition to providing abundant archaeological
evidence for this activity, the proximity to water also highlights
the potential for the preservation of both archaeological remains
and palaeoenvironmental source material. However, human activity
within river valleys also commonly bridges areas of both wetland
and dryland; ecological zones which are often approached using
quite different archaeological methods and which present
considerable differences in levels of archaeological visibility and
preservation. The site at Mill Lane offered an uncommon opportunity
to explore the interface between these two types of environment.
Here we present the results of the study of a wetland/dryland
interface on the edge of palaeochannels of the River Cam in
Cambridgeshire. Through the integrated archaeological and
palaeoenvironmental analysis of a site on the western edge of
Sawston, a detailed picture of life on the edge of the floodplain
from the late glacial to the post-medieval periods has been
developed. At the heart of this is the relationship between people
and their changing environment, which reveals a shifting pattern of
ritual, occupation and more transitory activity as the riparian
landscape in a wooded setting became a wetland within a more openly
grazed environment. The presence of potential built structures
dating to the early Neolithic, the early Bronze Age and the early
Anglo-Saxon periods provides some sense of continuity, although the
nature of these structures and the environmental context within
which they were constructed was very different.
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