11th December 2014, 02:48 PM
P Prentice Wrote:how did neolithic and later people navigate the landscape? what were the trade routes? how was contact maintained? when pastoralist farmers drove their herds through the forest for sure they would have used the animal tracks which would have widened, the surrounding vegetation would be grazed down. were these areas the first fields and therefore the easiest way to get about the landscape? how did they know which route led where? what landmarks can be seen from the forest to navigate by? if they had a home range how did they signal their ownership? are communal monuments sign posts? were they to be avoided or were they where messages were left?
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All brilliant questions/insights. Some of which lead me onto further testable questions...
Did pastoralist farmers exist in the Neolithic? Did they drive their herds through the forest?
Did neolithic people 'trade', what form did this trade take place?
Leading on to the big 4 (in my mind)..... What was the nature of neolithic settlement, agriculture, territoriality and inter-contact?
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