The archaeological record and mid-Holocene marginal coastal palaeoenvironments around Liverpool Bay
✍ Scribed by David Huddart; Silvia Gonzalez; Gordon Roberts
- Book ID
- 102659655
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 765 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0267-8179
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✦ Synopsis
The available published and unpublished archaeological record (human and animal bones, artefacts, footprints) is collated and reviewed in relation to the stratigraphic succession and palaeoecology for Mid-Holocene marginal coastal environments around Liverpool Bay. Two stratigraphic levels with human and animal footprint trails are described from Formby Point and whilst the upper level was formed between c 4000-3600 years B.P. (during the later Neolithic-early Bronze Age), the lower level is older. The animal and bone assemblages and the archaeological artefact evidence for this coastal region are reviewed. The implications of these finds for inter-tidal zone archaeology for this region are assessed but it appears that there is no evidence for major Mesolithic coastal human or animal activity, except for the North Wales coast, although there are major concentrations of Neolithic animal, human and artefact remains. During the Bronze to Iron Age dunes were present and probably grazed. Metal artefacts have been located from several sites but there is a lack of associated pottery evidence throughout the Holocene. This may mean that settlements were inland and coastal areas were only visited for grazing, hunting and fishing.