Abstract
Much has been written about the prehistoric environment and landscape of the southern English chalklands; indeed they have been the focus of study by many prehistorians and environmental archaeologists. Recent environmental analysis now allows us to do more than vaguely describe the nature of these downlands over several thousands of years; we can now imagine them in their whole physicality. This can only be done, however, where environmental analyses have been conducted at numerous locations within a defined study area, and where such analyses are dated by their close association with dated archaeological events and monuments. One such area is Cranborne Chase, Dorset, where the work of Martin Green has done much to reveal the detailed nature of a prehistoric landscape (Green, 2000). This article builds on the analysis presented in his book. It uses recently completed large scale land snail analyses and pollen analyses and a new interpretation of the evidence for past woodland to present a series of 'landscape reconstructions', views over this landscape as it might have been seen at several times in prehistory.
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