Dr Ian Smith
Excavations
Topography Of Afar
https://www.britains-prehistory.co.uk/Excavations/Afar-Topography/
Topography Of Africa
https://www.britains-prehistory.co.uk/Excavations/Africa-Topography/
Reap Lane LIDAR
https://www.britains-prehistory.co.uk/Excavations/Reap-Lane-Lidar/
Reap Lane
https://www.britains-prehistory.co.uk/Excavations/Reap-Lane/
Bouldnor Cliff
https://www.britains-prehistory.co.uk/Excavations/Bouldnor-Cliff/
End Of The Ice Age – Britain Becomes An Island
The Stonehenge Landscape – 7000 years Of History
A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape
This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a ‘solid’ computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method.
Prehistoric burial mounds (barrows), the great Cursus (a 2km Neolithic monument), the Bronze Age Avenue which links Stonehenge to the River Avon, and other henges such as Woodhenge and Durrington Walls are all clearly visible.
It is possibly the first time that this data has been shown in this way, at 1:1 with no reduction of data quality to produce a perspective animation.
More info at the Wessex Archaeology Computing blog: wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/computing/2007/11/15/stonehenge-landscape-3d
Burials In Prehistoric Britain
Pottery
Writing In The British Isles
Languages In The British Isles
Deforestation Of Britain
Neolithic Climate Change
Bodmin Moor, Exmoor and particularly Dartmoor are upland areas of granite (Devonian sandstones and slates in the case of Exmoor), characterised through the Middle Holocene by the development of blanket (ombrogenous) mire. The peat that resulted developed where rainfall exceeded evapotranspiration, and in theory provides useful sequences for palynological and plant macrofossil study. Dartmoor is undoubtedly the most fully studied of the three and the most recent reviews of the pollen database have been made by Chris Caseldine (Caseldine and Hatton 1996; Caseldine 1999). Studies at a number of sites such as Bellever demonstrate that by the Late Mesolithic, oak, elm and hazel formed the major components of the Dartmoor woodland (Caseldine and Hatton 1996).