MESOLITHIC AND LATER LANDSCAPES INTERPRETED FROM THE INSECT ASSEMBLAGES OF WEST HEATH SPA, HAMPSTEAD, LONDON.
Author(s): M A Girling
Organic samples from a spring on Hampstead Heath, north London contained a number of important beetle faunas. The results indicate old forest with lime, and rotting trees in the early part of the neolithic sequence. Dung beetles appear at the elm decline horizon (later neolithic), and there are less signs of forest and more of damp open soils, pools and of insects feeding upon aquatic vegetation.
- Report Number:
- 14/1990
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 13
- Keywords:
- Animal Remains Insect
