Bronze Age Europe

Kvapil, Lynne A.

doi:10.1002/9781118970959.ch12

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“…Since flatter land exists over most of the surrounding landscape, the creation of these terraces suggests either that this location was significant enough to warrant the investment of time and labour, or that dense population levels necessitated exploitation of all available land. Either way, this can be seen in the context of wider European Bronze Age agricultural intensification (Kvapil 2020), although the relative roles of population pressure, changing social organisation, and immigration and cultural influences from the Continent remain to be investigated. This study not only reveals that agricultural terrace construction and use corresponded with the onset of roundhouse construction and settled agriculture, but also that the unravelling of these multi-layered landscapes is now tractable due to advances in high-resolution survey, sediment dating and profiling, and palaeoecological techniques.…”

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Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: morphology, dating and cultural implications

et al. 2023

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Terracing is found widely in the Mediterranean and in other hilly and mountainous regions of the world. Yet while archaeological attention to these ‘mundane’ landscape features has grown, they remain understudied, particularly in Northern Europe. Here, the authors present a multidisciplinary study of terraces in the Breamish Valley, Northumberland. The results date their construction to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, when they were built by cutting back the hillside, stone clearance and wall construction. Environmental evidence points to their use for cereal cultivation. The authors suggest that the construction and use of these terraces formed part of an Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural intensification, which may have been both demographically and culturally driven.

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confidence: 99%