Professor Martin Bell, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at University of Reading, presents ‘Hunter Gatherers in the Severn Estuary: Ice Age to 4000BC’.
Martin describes the evidence for human occupation of the Severn Estuary during warm periods (inter-glacials) over the last million years, which enables us to reconstruct the lives of these communities and the ever changing environment that supported their way of life..
Further reading
- Ashton, N (2017) Early Humans. London. Collins: New Naturalist (available as book or Kindle e-book).
- Bell, M (2007) Prehistoric Coastal Communities: the Mesolithic of Western Britain. York: Council for British Archaeology. (Free to download from the Archaeology Data Service Library).
- Bell, M and Walker, M.J.C (2005) Late Quaternary Environmental Change; Physical and human perspectives. Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall (Available as e-book)
- Dinnis, R and Stringer, C (2013) Britain one million years of the human story. London: Natural History Museum.
- Green, S and Walker, E (1991) Ice Age Hunters: Neanderthals and early modern hunters in Wales. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales.
- Lillie, M (2015) Hunters, Fishers and Foragers in Wales: Towards a social narrative of Mesolithic lifeways. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Lynch, F, Aldhouse-Green and Davies, J.L (2000) Prehistoric Wales. Sutton.
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