Lithic Scatters and Landscape: Investigating the prehistory of the Lower Exe Valley

Abstract: This seminar will explore the inhabitation of the lower Exe valley, between the Mesolithic and the Early Bronze Age through the evidence of a series of surface lithic scatters. The research draws on recent confident approaches to surface lithic scatters which view them as key data for understanding the inhabitation of prehistoric landscapes. Theoretically it draws on the dwelling perspective and proposes that both the contents of lithic scatters (the stone tools and debitage of which they are composed), and their contexts (the locations in which they are found) are inseparable parts of the same whole and are implicated in the processes through which prehistoric populations came to understood and create their worlds.