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Ecology into Landscape: some English Moorlands in the Later Mesolithic

Ecology into Landscape: some English Moorlands in the Later Mesolithic AbstractThe abundant work on the palaeoecology of the northern moorlands of England has been largely focussed on ecological processes. It has shown clearly the transition from tundra to deciduous forest and the impacts of human communities in changing those processes. Even the later hunter-gatherers were responsible for the management of plants and animals so as to maximise their resource base. In this paper an attempt is made to translate the flow-based ecological work into a more visual mode, by imagining more what the landscapes would have looked like, using first the metaphor of an eagle so as to pretend to screen out some of the landscape learning which we have all come to adopt. In the end, though we have to realise that many of our inherited attitudes are at variance with the data provided by the natural sciences. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Ecology into Landscape: some English Moorlands in the Later Mesolithic

Simmons, I. G.
Landscapes , Volume 2 (1): 14 – Apr 1, 2001
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2001 Maney
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
DOI
10.1179/lan.2001.2.1.42
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Abstract

AbstractThe abundant work on the palaeoecology of the northern moorlands of England has been largely focussed on ecological processes. It has shown clearly the transition from tundra to deciduous forest and the impacts of human communities in changing those processes. Even the later hunter-gatherers were responsible for the management of plants and animals so as to maximise their resource base. In this paper an attempt is made to translate the flow-based ecological work into a more visual mode, by imagining more what the landscapes would have looked like, using first the metaphor of an eagle so as to pretend to screen out some of the landscape learning which we have all come to adopt. In the end, though we have to realise that many of our inherited attitudes are at variance with the data provided by the natural sciences.

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Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2001

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