Holocene human and animal footprints and their relationships with coastal environmental change, Formby Point, NW England

Huddart, David; Roberts, Gordon; González, Silvia

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(98)00021-4

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“…Data from http://splashcos-viewer.eu/ stakes, wattle hurdling and a possible fish weir, with radiocarbon dates indicating a time range of 6000 to 5500 cal BP for at least part of this material (Trechmann 1936;Buglass 1994;Waugham et al 2005). Isolated finds of human material have been reported elsewhere including a human skeleton from Liverpool Bay beneath peats radiocarbon-dated between 7500 and 7000 cal BP (Huddart et al 1999).…”

Section: Sites In the Intertidal Zonementioning

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Great Britain: The Intertidal and Underwater Archaeology of Britain’s Submerged Landscapes

Bailey

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Bell

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Coastal Research Library

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The submerged landscapes around Great Britain are extensive and would have offered productive territory for hunting, gathering, exploitation of aquatic and marine resources, and-in the final stages of postglacial sealevel rise-opportunities for agriculture. They would also have provided land connections to continental Europe and opportunities for communication by sea travel along now-submerged palaeocoastlines and river estuaries. Most of the archaeological material has been discovered in intertidal or shallow water conditions, but there are also discoveries in deeper water, with dates ranging from earliest human presence nearly one million years ago up to the establishment of modern sea level. Some later material is present where coastlines have continued to sink in more recent millennia. Intertidal sites are especially well represented

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“…The most extensive exposures of such finds are of much later date (broadly Mesolithic or Neolithic), at Formby Point (Huddart et al 1999) with over 145 footprints (Fig. 10.8) and Goldcliff East, with over 270 human footprints, discussed in more detail below (Bell 2007).…”

Section: Intertidal Footprintsmentioning

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Great Britain: The Intertidal and Underwater Archaeology of Britain’s Submerged Landscapes

Bailey

Momber

Bell

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“…As the waves scour through successive layers of laminated strata, footprints appear -human footprints, but also the prints of red and roe deer, auroch and crane. Research carried out on the Formby formations indicates a wide range of activity occurring on the Holocene mud flats -women collecting shellfish, men tracking deer and wild cattle, and many children, collecting but also mudlarking, dancing about for the joy of feeling mud between their toes (Huddart et al, 1999;Roberts et al, 1996). Imaginative reconstructions are given sustenance when such human-matter relations are laid bare and when the enfolding of lives into the processes of matter formation becomes visible.…”

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The Quarry as Sculpture: The Place of Making

Paton

2013

Environ Plan A

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Practices of sculpture and geography have collaborated ever since Stone Age humans hoisted up rocks to point them into the air. The ephemerality of life was rendered in a circle of forms and mass that celebrated the union of sky, earth and dwelling. Through the manipulation of stone, the land became a place, it became a home, it became situated and navigable. As millennia unfolded, the land was written with the story of itself. The creativity woven into the story of place is an evolution of material viii I would like to express a special gratitude to my close friend Rose Ferraby, someone with whom I have been able to share a deep respect for stone and quarrying during our time as PhD researchers. I thank Rose for the many chats over the phone, for her humour, creativity, rigour and energy. I would also like to acknowledge the friendship, support and spirit of collaboration provided by Jane Bailey, Natalia Eernstman, Alyson Hallett and Andy Whall, during our shared experiences of carrying out PhDs.

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“…Animal and human footprints and associated materials are developed in the Scrobicularia Clay unit (and related sediments) at a number of places in north-west England (Huddart et al, 1999). These record the close relationship between human occupation of the intertidal zone during the late Mesolithic and early Bronze Age, and contemporary environmental and faunal changes at this time (Roberts et al, 1996;Huddart et al, 1999).…”

Section: Coastal Setting Of the Study Areamentioning

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Processes of soft-sediment clast formation in the intertidal zone

Knight

2005

Sedimentary Geology

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Holocene human and animal footprints and their relationships with coastal environmental change, Formby Point, NW England

Cited by 29 publications

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Great Britain: The Intertidal and Underwater Archaeology of Britain’s Submerged Landscapes

Great Britain: The Intertidal and Underwater Archaeology of Britain’s Submerged Landscapes

The Quarry as Sculpture: The Place of Making

Processes of soft-sediment clast formation in the intertidal zone

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