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Britain Deep History
First canonical domain. A deep history of people, land and belief organised through six continuous strands: People, Land, Society, Technology, Belief and Continuity.
PeopleLandSocietyTechnologyBeliefContinuityEvidence modelContinuity scaleMesolithic BritainDoggerlandSea-level changeMeltwater Pulse 1BPopulation geneticsSettlement modelsRitual inferenceIron Age religionRoman BritainMethodological uncertainty
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Curation log
15 curator runsNewest: 015 · National Trust prehistoric period
015 · National Trust prehistoric period
2026-10-12
SourceNational Trust: Unearthing Britain's history, introduction and Prehistoric Period (text as supplied by the owner)
Proposals1 · 1 approved
014 · ADS framework introduction
2026-10-12
SourceArchaeology Data Service: Mesolithic Research and Conservation Framework (Blinkhorn and Milner, 2013), introduction (text as supplied by the owner)
Proposals2 · 2 approved
013 · Mesolithic typochronology resource
2026-10-12
SourceMesolithic typochronology resource (Conneller 2024, ADS object 2978941), text extraction
Proposals2 · 2 approved
Canonicalbritain-deep-history.md
Viewsbritain-deep-history.html
012 · Historic England period list
2026-10-12
SourceHistoric England: Our full list of archaeological periods (text as supplied by the owner)
Proposals2 · 2 approved
011 · Ashmolean Mesolithic period
2026-10-12
SourceAshmolean Museum, British Archaeology Collections: Mesolithic (text of the page, as supplied by the owner)
Proposals4 · 3 approved · 1 rejected
Canonicalbritain-deep-history.md
Viewsbritain-deep-history.html
010 · Conneller and Griffiths 2024
2026-10-12
SourceTime and Change in Mesolithic Britain c. 9800–3600 cal bc (Conneller and Griffiths, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 90, 2024)
Proposals2 · 1 approved · 1 rejected
009 · Mesolithic date conventions
2026-10-12
SourceAncient Britain — Source Register
Proposals3 · 2 approved · 1 rejected
Canonicalbritain-deep-history.md
Viewsbritain-deep-history.html
008 · Mesolithic date in the scholarly literature
2026-10-12
SourceAncient Britain — Source Register
Proposals3 · 2 approved · 1 rejected
007 · Mesolithic start-date grounding
2026-10-12
SourceAncient Britain — Source Register
Proposals2 · 2 approved
006 · Note update: Howick evidence case and land-connection question
2026-10-11
SourceMesolithic Settlement in the North Sea Basin: A Case Study from Howick, North-East England
Proposals3 · 3 approved
Canonicalbritain-deep-history.md
Viewsbritain-deep-history.html
005 · Howick book chapter 12, sea level and palaeoenvironment
2026-10-11
SourceMesolithic Settlement in the North Sea Basin: A Case Study from Howick, North-East England
Proposals5 · 5 approved
004 · Howick monograph, dating and occupation
2026-10-11
SourceMesolithic Settlement in the North Sea Basin: A Case Study from Howick, North-East England
Proposals7 · 7 approved
Referencewaddington-2007-mesolithic-settlement-howick.txt
003 · Register citation recovery
2026-10-11
SourceAncient Britain — Source Register
Proposals7 · 7 approved
002 · Britain Deep History — multi-file knowledge bundle
2026-10-05
SourceBritain Deep History — multi-file knowledge bundle
Proposals9 · decided as a whole; per-proposal outcomes not recorded
Canonicalbritain-deep-history.md
Referenceancient-britain-knowledge-base-v4.md
Analyticalbritain-deep-history-continuity.md
Viewsbritain-deep-history-concept-map.html, ancient-britain-story-edition.html
001 · Ancient Britain — Source Register
2026-10-11
SourceAncient Britain — Source Register
Proposals7 · 6 approved · 1 deferred
Referenceancient-britain-source-register-v1.txt