From Hunter-Gatherers to Huntsmen: A History of the Stansted Landscape

by Fraser Brown, Nicholas Cooke, Christopher Phillpotts

The expansion of Stansted Airport provided an opportunity to investigate a large area of clay plateau, typical of the north-west Essex landscape. The area was a focus for hunter-gatherer activity as early as the Palaeolithic period, and was first settled by small farming communities in the Middle Bronze Age. From the Middle Iron Age onwards, increasing settlement and population density led to the enclosure of the landscape. Farming and settlement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955451914
• ISBN13: 9780955451911
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Wessex Archaeology
• Length: 344 Pages