A Quaternary Timeline: a teaching tool for interpreting palaeoenvironmental, palaeoclimatic and archaeological change over the last 500,000 years |
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| Authors: | Danielle C Schreve Nicholas P Branch |
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| Institution: | a Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
b School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 227, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AB, UK |
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| Abstract: | This short paper presents a case study for teaching elements of Quaternary Science to a non-specialist audience. A guided hands-on practical exercise in sedimentology and stratigraphy, palaeoenvironmental analysis and Palaeolithic archaeology was supported by the development of a ‘Quaternary Timeline’ chart, which introduces the concepts of changing climates and environments and characterises the broad expression of these changes in the terrestrial and fossil records. Using information from the practical exercises, the figure allows a step-by-step interpretation to be built up of past landscapes, including an understanding of the nature of fluvial responses to Quaternary climate change, a reconstruction of the contemporary flora and mammalian fauna and an analysis of the activities of early human populations. |
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| Keywords: | Quaternary Education Climate change Flora Fauna Palaeolithic archaeology |
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