Buried landscapes of the Avon Riverside and the Mesolithic of the Stonehenge Area

埃文河畔的埋藏景观和巨石阵地区的中石器时代

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    AH/W002868/1
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 84.1万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    英国
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助国家:
    英国
  • 起止时间:
    2022 至 无数据
  • 项目状态:
    未结题

项目摘要

Recent excavations in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SHWS) and a pilot study (2020) have provided an unexpected opportunity to reveal the history of the area throughout the Mesolithic and just prior to the Neolithic. This tackles a long-running debate about the antecedence of the early Neolithic, and the nature of the archaeological activity in the late Mesolithic. This is a period with landscape-interactions are still largely based on models from other areas. Was the Stonehenge area a persistent place prior to the erection of the monuments? Without new data this debate is sterile; however, the excavations at Amesbury (Blick Mead), Bluestonehenge and test pitting along the west slope of the Avon valley, have revealed a buried potential to provide the Meso-Neo environmental context for the monumental complexes. Revealed at Blick Mead, along the eastern edge of the chalk and under the Iron Age hillfort to West Amesbury, is a semi-continuous set of deposits of loess, primary and reworked, with intercalated land-surfaces and palaeosols, extending to 4m depth. The project is based on using this resource to investigate the pre-Neolithic environment of the eastern part of the SWHS from Durrington Walls to West Amesbury extending south to Old Sarum and another smaller area at Downton south of Salisbury. This is timely for four reasons: 1) preliminary sediment-based dating at Blick Mead suggests that the loess component yields accurate and potentially quite precise sediment-based (OSL) dates, 2) preliminary work at Blick Mead has been able to recover ancient sedaDNA and so offers opportunity for similar Mesolithic sequences, 3) the location of these deposits links with 'dry-valley' sediment catchments draining a large part of SWHS, and 4) previous indications of environmental potential down the valley edge to Salisbury and around Downton. The project has 4 workpackages; WP1 - geophysics (GPR and ERT), Lidar, direct-push and coring transects between Durrington Walls and the Countesweir Roundabout and between Blick Mead and West Amesbury, down to Old Sarum and at Downton. The extension south is partly to test the proposition of different, or even unique, conditions in the SWHS area. Test pits (8-10, 2x2m) will be excavated at the locations with the most complex or informative stratigraphy. We also hope to collect as much data in the field as possible, including pXRF and pOSL/pIRSL. WP2 - sub-sampling using U-channels, Xray core scanning (Itrax), magnetic susceptibility LOI sedaDNA and soil micromophology. We also have samples from the 4 sites that sampled in 2020 (stored at 4 oC at Southampton). WP3 - sedaDNA extraction, OSL determination, and processing pollen and counting. SedaDNA PCR and sequencing will be undertaken and PDRA1 (Hudson) will do the bioinformatics processing. WP4 - The stratigraphic and sedimentary data will be compiled into a 4D model using Rockworks and profiles and units linked to supplementary files of analytical data from other projects in the SWHS. Whilst the project is primarily field-archaeology focused it does have innovative techniques nested within it, particularly direct push penetrometry and sedaDNA metabarcoding. These will be supported by more traditional techniques from pollen analysis to soil micromorphology. Although based around the SWHS (with an outlier down-valley), the project will have wider implications to Wessex, other areas with concentrations of Mesolithic sites such as the Kennet Valley, and other monumental Neolithic-Bronze Age landscapes such as the Cranborne Chase, Dorset and Milfield Plain, Northumberland. Similar questions have also been raised in Continental Europe even if earlier in some areas and later in others where there appears to be an environmental factor in the location of early Neolithic-early Bronze Age sites (e.g. Pömmelte, Germany). To undertake this project we have assembled a world-renowned team of experts on Stonehenge and also environmental archaeology.
最近对巨石阵世界遗产遗址(SHWS)的挖掘和一项试点研究(2020年)提供了一个意想不到的机会,揭示了该地区在整个中石器时代和新石器时代之前的历史。这解决了长期以来关于新石器时代早期的先于性和中石器时代晚期考古活动的性质的争论。这是一个景观相互作用在很大程度上仍然基于其他领域的模型的时期。巨石阵地区在建造纪念碑之前是一个持久的地方吗?没有新的数据,这场辩论是徒劳的;然而,在埃姆斯伯里(布利克米德)、青石阵和沿着雅芳山谷西坡的测试坑的挖掘,揭示了一个被埋葬的潜力,为这些巨大的建筑群提供了中-新环境背景。在布利克米德,沿着白垩的东部边缘和铁器时代的山岗下到西埃姆斯伯里,发现了一套半连续的黄土矿床,既有原生的,也有改造过的,有嵌入的地表和古土壤,延伸至4米深。该项目是基于利用这些资源来调查SWHS东部的前新石器时代环境,从Durrington Walls到West Amesbury,向南延伸到Old Sarum,以及唐顿南部Salisbury的另一个较小区域。这是及时的,原因有四个:1)在布利克米德的初步沉积物定年表明,黄土成分产生了准确的、可能相当精确的沉积物定年(OSL)日期;2)在布利克米德的初步工作已经能够恢复古代sedaDNA,因此为类似的中石器时代序列提供了机会;3)这些沉积物的位置与“干谷”沉积物集水区有关,这些集水区排水了SWHS的大部分。4)山谷边缘到索尔兹伯里和唐顿周围的环境潜力的先前迹象。该项目有4个工作包;WP1 -地球物理(GPR和ERT),激光雷达,Durrington Walls和Countesweir环形交叉路口之间,Blick Mead和West Amesbury之间,直至Old Sarum和唐顿之间的直推和取心断面。向南延伸部分是为了测试SWHS地区不同甚至独特条件的主张。测试坑(8- 10,2 × 2m)将在地层最复杂或信息最丰富的位置挖掘。我们也希望收集尽可能多的现场数据,包括pXRF和pOSL/pIRSL。利用u通道、x射线岩心扫描(Itrax)、磁化率LOI、dna和土壤微观形貌进行WP2 -亚采样。我们也有来自2020年采样的4个地点的样本(存储在南安普顿的4℃)。WP3 - sedaDNA提取,OSL测定,花粉处理和计数。将进行SedaDNA PCR和测序,PDRA1 (Hudson)将进行生物信息学处理。WP4 -地层学和沉积学数据将被编制成一个四维模型,使用石工、剖面和单元,并与其他海底工程项目的分析数据补充文件相连接。虽然该项目主要侧重于实地考古,但它确实包含了一些创新技术,特别是直接推动穿透法和seddna元条形码。这些将得到从花粉分析到土壤微形态学等更传统技术的支持。尽管该项目以SWHS为基础(有一个离群的山谷),但该项目将对威塞克斯、其他集中了中石器时代遗址的地区(如肯内特山谷)以及其他具有纪念意义的新石器-青铜时代景观(如多塞特郡的克兰伯恩猎场和诺森伯兰郡的米尔菲尔德平原)产生更广泛的影响。在欧洲大陆也提出了类似的问题,即使在某些地区更早,在其他地区更晚,在新石器时代早期-青铜时代早期遗址的位置似乎有环境因素(例如Pömmelte,德国)。为了完成这个项目,我们召集了一个世界知名的巨石阵和环境考古专家团队。

项目成果

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Lateglacial and Early Holocene palaeoenvironmental change and human activity at Killerby Quarry, North Yorkshire, UK
  • DOI:
    10.1002/jqs.3488
  • 发表时间:
    2022-12
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    2.3
  • 作者:
    S. Hudson;C. Waddington;B. Pears;Natalie Ellis;Luke Parker;D. Hamilton;I. Alsos;P. Hughes;A. Brown
  • 通讯作者:
    S. Hudson;C. Waddington;B. Pears;Natalie Ellis;Luke Parker;D. Hamilton;I. Alsos;P. Hughes;A. Brown
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Waves of colonization around the Sea of Moyle: Linking population history, resilience and landscape change of island communities
莫伊尔海周围的殖民浪潮:将岛屿社区的人口历史、复原力和景观变化联系起来
  • 批准号:
    AH/R012857/1
  • 财政年份:
    2018
  • 资助金额:
    $ 84.1万
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant
Celtic Connections and Crannogs: A new Study of Lake Settlements Across the Irish Sea
凯尔特人与克兰诺格斯的联系:对爱尔兰海沿岸湖泊定居点的一项新研究
  • 批准号:
    AH/M005259/1
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    $ 84.1万
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant
Rescue Excavation of Large Mammal Skeleton and Associated Stone Tools from Temporarily Exposed Section, Lake Victoria, Kenya
肯尼亚维多利亚湖临时暴露部分大型哺乳动物骨骼及相关石器的抢救性挖掘
  • 批准号:
    NE/H01523X/1
  • 财政年份:
    2010
  • 资助金额:
    $ 84.1万
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grant

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