A Great North Route in Neolithic and Bronze Age Yorkshire: The Evidence of Landscape and Monuments

Vyner, Blaise

doi:10.1179/lan.2007.8.1.69

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“…comm. ), for example, while the general course of a Roman-era road leading north towards the Tyne was seemingly used as early as the Neolithic (Vyner 2007: 69–77). The Iron Age farmsteads on the Northumberland coastal plain developed over several centuries (Hodgson 2012: 206–11), and such settlements would have initiated and been sustained by connective movement (Leary 2014: 4–5).…”

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Fords and the frontier: waging counter-mobility on Hadrian's Wall

Symonds¹

2020

Antiquity

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2020

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“…These developer-funded investigations, together with river-specific research projects and Local Authority led syntheses have produced important archaeological narratives for the Great Ouse (Dawson 2000), the Severn (Bell et al 2000), Witham (Catney & Start 2003), Humber (Van der Noort 2004), Trent (Knight & Howard 2004), Welland (French & Pryor 2005), Thames (Lambrick et al 2009), and so on. Interpretatively, beyond wide acceptance that river valleys provided ideal settings for ancient settlement and farming, researchers have discussed the role of rivers as foci for ritual deposits of human remains and metal items (eg, Bradley & Gordon 1988;Bradley 1998;Pryor et al 2001;Fontijn 2002;Schulting & Bradley 2013), as conduits for transport, trade, and communication (eg, Needham & Burgess 1980;Sherratt 1996;Vyner 2007;Haughey 2013;Kristiansen & Suchowska-Ducke 2015); and as cornerstones in the emergence of Bronze Age social elites (Yates 2007;Kristiansen & Suchowska-Ducke 2015;Vankilde 2016).…”

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What Rivers Did: a Study of if and how Rivers Shaped Later Prehistoric Lives in Britain and Beyond

BRUDENELL,

COOPER,

GREEN

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Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Countering the passive representation of rivers in many previous accounts of later prehistory – as static vessels for spectacular deposits, highways for transport and communication, and backdrops for settlement and farming – this paper asks if and how rivers actively shaped prehistoric lives. Rivers have long been hailed as conduits for prehistoric materials and ideas. However, positive archaeological correlates of the processes involved are notoriously difficult to identify and have rarely been scrutinised in detail. Using the example of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age pottery in the east of England (1150–350 bc), we examine in detail how prehistoric pottery-making traditions cohered around river valleys over an extended time period and were thus, to a certain extent, generated by rivers. Drawing on wider evidence for the flow of people and things in this region we build a broader multi-dimensional account of how people, objects, and practices moved in a period of diverse lifeways in which the makeup of human mobility is not well understood. In doing so, we hope to tether abstract arguments about the active role of rivers and other non-human elements in shaping past lives and to approach the often missing ‘middle ground’ – small-scale movements at local and regional scales – in existing archaeological discussions about mobility.

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“…Throughout prehistory the importance of overland communication routes is evident. Blaise Vyner has recently argued for a north-south route during the Neolithic and Bronze Age of the Yorkshire and Cleveland region (Vyner 2007), and there is no reason to think that such routes did not extend further north. Indeed the linearity of the Beaker period henge monuments in the Milfield plain, which are largely followed by the modern A697 trunk road, suggests that such routes are of very ancient origin.…”

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Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland

Passmore¹,

Waddington²

2012

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xxiv Zuasammenfassung xxv Samenvatting xxvi Sammenfatning xxvii Till Tweed Volume I Erratum xxviii Contents Part 1. Setting the Scene vii Contents Calibration The model for the start and end of the Neolithic The overlapping ceramics model Alternative: the abutting model The Milfield henge complex and related sites Taming of the land: transition or revolution? Settlement Post-built structures Neolithic pits Geography of Neolithic settlement in Northumberland Land use and subsistence Technology and material culture Ceramics Lithics Monumentalising the land Neolithic Chalcolithic 6.

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A Great North Route in Neolithic and Bronze Age Yorkshire: The Evidence of Landscape and Monuments

Cited by 6 publications

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Fords and the frontier: waging counter-mobility on Hadrian's Wall

Fords and the frontier: waging counter-mobility on Hadrian's Wall

What Rivers Did: a Study of if and how Rivers Shaped Later Prehistoric Lives in Britain and Beyond

Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland

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