'Rewilding' Later Prehistory
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UKRI-funded project, led by Anwen Cooper @oatweet with @school_of_arch @UofEArchaeology @CagToulouse @HistoricEngland
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Nature recovery and past material traces can be linked in countless creative ways. Last week, 'Rewilding' Later Prehistory visited Hepple Wild, Northumberland with Rose Ferraby. Inspiring rewilding, cool archaeology and common interests in the spirituality of place #WildWednesdays
Remains of mistletoe recovered from a ditch at Wardy Hill Iron Age Ringwork, Ely. Despite its druidic associations, mistletoe was likely present here chiefly as a parasite of mature hawthorn hedges, planted atop the Ringwork’s banks. Image: CAU #WildWednesdays #Archaeology
Excited to announce that the Association for Environmental Archaeology conference is coming to Oxford in December and is to be co-hosted by Oxford School of Archaeology, Oxford Continuing Education & Oxford Archaeology! AEA Keble College, Oxford
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Collaboration is key to 'Rewilding' Later Prehistory research! Last week, we explored interpretative commonalities with Fenscapes Cambridge Archaeology & Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe. This week, Alice Dobinson is sampling horse bone Oxford School of Archaeology for dating Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit & aDNA analysis CAGToulouse #WildWednesdays
Must Farm pile-dwelling, Cambridgeshire: a rare window into Late Bronze Age settlement and into the richness of prehistoric people’s engagement with wildlife. It was a privilege working with Cambridge Archaeological Unit colleagues and fabulous specialists galore in making these books
Our article 'Digitally Enlightened or Still in the Dark? Estab. a Sector-Wide Approach to Enhancing Data Synthesis & Research Potential in British Environmental Archaeology & Beyond'(w. Historic England, CIfA, Bournemouth Uni.)is now available open access!
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Hallucinogenic, painkiller and sedative or merely a weed? We frequently come across henbane in a range of archaeological features, from the Bronze Age onwards, so it's fascinating to see evidence of Roman medicinal use from the Netherlands! #WildWednesdays bit.ly/3OCCHvl
“We are not trying to recreate the bronze age landscape, but we are using the knowledge we have gained about the natural processes that first formed the habitat [...to inform how the area is managed in the future.]' #WildWednesdays #Archaeology
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Next step a comprehensive map of England's inverted #hedgerows - the equally biodiverse dykes & ditches?
Julia Meen of Oxford Archaeology has been busy collecting samples from traditionally laid hedges to help distinguish the archaeobotanical signatures of ‘wild’ woodland and ‘tamed’ hedgerows! #WildWednesdays #hedgelaying Photog: Nigel Adams lays (L) & Chris Clark samples (R)
Scrub is often seen as untidy, undesirable & even actively damaging to archaeology. But it's also valuable for wildlife (& can be seen from archaeobotanical records to have been an important component of the landscape in prehistory)! knepp.co.uk/2022/01/episod… #WildWednesdays
A big thank you to the archivists, HER reps, archaeobotanists & zooarchaeologists who got stuck in to last week's project workshop on developing an OASIS+ module for recording environmental remains. Pictured here beavering away! #WildWednesdays
Last week members of the project team learned about the vegetation history of Wytham Woods with Dr Keith Kirby- and spotted this impressive fairy ring! #WildWednesdays
Palynologist, Lou Matthews had a fun and furious first week 'Rewilding' Later Prehistory. Thanks to SoGE, University of Oxford for a terrifically autumnal Knepp Wilding fieldtrip. Specimens collected by Darwin featured on Lou’s fab trip with fellow Oxford School of Archaeology plant-lovers to Oxford Biology herbarium!
