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text-align:center">Sweet Track</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sweettrack.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Vague straight track through boggy brush-covered ground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sweettrack.jpg/250px-Sweettrack.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sweettrack.jpg/375px-Sweettrack.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Sweettrack.jpg/500px-Sweettrack.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shapwick_Heath" title="Shapwick Heath">Shapwick Heath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Levels" title="Somerset Levels">Somerset Levels</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sweet_Track&params=51_09_51_N_2_49_35_W_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°09′51″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°49′35″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.16417°N 2.82639°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.16417; -2.82639</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold">Built</th><td class="infobox-data">3807 or 3806 BC</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #00247D; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monument" title="Scheduled monument">Scheduled monument</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">13 June 1996<sup id="cite_ref-sshersweettrack_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sshersweettrack-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">27978 (was Somerset 399)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #00247D; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monument" title="Scheduled monument">Scheduled monument</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">22 April 1996<sup id="cite_ref-sshersweettrack_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sshersweettrack-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">27979 (was Somerset 400)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:#fff!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:235px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:235px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:235px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Somerset_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sweet Track is located in Somerset"><img alt="Sweet Track is located in Somerset" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Somerset_UK_location_map.svg/235px-Somerset_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="235" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Somerset_UK_location_map.svg/353px-Somerset_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Somerset_UK_location_map.svg/470px-Somerset_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="901" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:51.444%;left:61.609%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Sweet Track"><img alt="Sweet Track" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/7px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="7" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/11px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/14px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location of Sweet Track in Somerset</div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Sweet Track</b> is an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_trackway" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient trackway">ancient trackway</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Causeway" title="Causeway">causeway</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Levels" title="Somerset Levels">Somerset Levels</a>, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet. It was built in 3807 BC (determined using <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">dendrochronology</a> - Tree-ring dating) and is the second-oldest <a href="/wiki/Timber_trackway" class="mw-redirect" title="Timber trackway">timber trackway</a> discovered in the British Isles, dating to the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic_British_Isles" title="Neolithic British Isles">Neolithic</a>. The Sweet Track was predominantly built along the course of an earlier structure, the <a href="/wiki/Post_Track" title="Post Track">Post Track</a>. </p><p>The track extended across the now largely drained <a href="/wiki/Marsh" title="Marsh">marsh</a> between what was then an island at <a href="/wiki/Westhay" title="Westhay">Westhay</a> and a ridge of high ground at <a href="/wiki/Shapwick,_Somerset" title="Shapwick, Somerset">Shapwick</a>, a distance close to 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) or around 1.1 mi.<sup id="cite_ref-new_scientist_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-new_scientist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track is one of a network that once crossed the <a href="/wiki/Somerset_Levels" title="Somerset Levels">Somerset Levels</a>. Various artifacts and prehistoric finds, including a <a href="/wiki/Jadeitite" title="Jadeitite">jadeitite</a> ceremonial axe head, have been found in the peat bogs along its length.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Construction was of crossed wooden poles, driven into the waterlogged soil to support a walkway that consisted mainly of planks of <a href="/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oak</a>, laid end-to-end. The track was used for a period of only around ten years and was then abandoned, probably due to rising water levels. Following its discovery in 1970, most of the track has been left in its original location, with active <a href="/wiki/Conservation-restoration_of_cultural_heritage" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage">conservation</a> measures taken, including a water pumping and distribution system to maintain the wood in its damp condition. Some of the track is stored at the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> and at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Somerset" title="Museum of Somerset">Museum of Somerset</a> in Taunton. A reconstruction has been made on which visitors can walk, on the same line as the original, in <a href="/wiki/Shapwick_Heath" title="Shapwick Heath">Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location">Location</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweet_Track&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early <a href="/wiki/4th_millennium_BC" title="4th millennium BC">fourth millennium BC</a> the track was built between an island at <a href="/wiki/Westhay" title="Westhay">Westhay</a> and a ridge of high ground at <a href="/wiki/Shapwick,_Somerset" title="Shapwick, Somerset">Shapwick</a> close to the <a href="/wiki/River_Brue" title="River Brue">River Brue</a>. A group of mounds at Westhay mark the site of <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Britain" title="Prehistoric Britain">prehistoric</a> lake dwellings, which were likely to have been similar to those found in the <a href="/wiki/British_Iron_Age" title="British Iron Age">Iron Age</a> <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Lake_Village" title="Glastonbury Lake Village">Glastonbury Lake Village</a> near <a href="/wiki/Godney" title="Godney">Godney</a>, itself built on a <a href="/wiki/Marsh" title="Marsh">morass</a> on an artificial foundation of timber filled with brushwood, <a href="/wiki/Bracken" title="Bracken">bracken</a>, rubble, and <a href="/wiki/Clay" title="Clay">clay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The remains of similar tracks have been uncovered nearby, connecting settlements on the <a href="/wiki/Peat_bog" class="mw-redirect" title="Peat bog">peat bog</a>; they include the Honeygore, Abbotts Way, Bells, Bakers, Westhay, and Nidons trackways.<sup id="cite_ref-digitaldigging_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-digitaldigging-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sites such as the nearby <a href="/wiki/Meare_Pool" title="Meare Pool">Meare Pool</a> provide evidence that the purpose of these structures was to enable easier travel between the settlements. Investigation of the Meare Pool indicates that it was formed by the encroachment of <a href="/wiki/Raised_bog" title="Raised bog">raised peat bogs</a> around it, particularly during the <a href="/wiki/Subatlantic" title="Subatlantic">Subatlantic</a> climatic period (1st millennium BC), and <a href="/wiki/Core_sample" title="Core sample">core sampling</a> demonstrates that it is filled with at least 2 metres (6.6 ft) of detritus mud.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The two <a href="/wiki/Meare_Lake_Village" title="Meare Lake Village">Meare Lake Villages</a> within Meare Pool appear to originate from a collection of structures erected on the surface of the dried peat, such as tents, windbreaks and animal folds. Clay was later spread over the peat, providing raised stands for occupation, industry and movement, and in some areas thicker clay spreads accommodated <a href="/wiki/Hearth" title="Hearth">hearths</a> built of clay or stone.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery_and_study">Discovery and study</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweet_Track&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Discovery and study"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sweet_track.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sweet_track.jpg/220px-Sweet_track.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sweet_track.jpg/330px-Sweet_track.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sweet_track.jpg/440px-Sweet_track.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6252" data-file-height="4164" /></a><figcaption>Part of the Sweet Track oak causeway, England, c. 3800 BC. Exhibited at the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The track was discovered in 1970 during <a href="/wiki/Peat" title="Peat">peat</a> excavations and is named after its finder, Ray Sweet.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company for which he worked, E. J. Godwin, sent part of a plank from the track to <a href="/wiki/John_Coles_(historian)" title="John Coles (historian)">John Coles</a>, an assistant lecturer in archaeology at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge University</a>, who had carried out some excavations on nearby trackways.<sup id="cite_ref-brunning_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brunning-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coles' interest in the trackways led to the Somerset Levels Project, which ran from 1973 to 1989, funded by various donors including <a href="/wiki/English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a>. The project undertook a range of local archaeological activities, and established the economic and geographic significance of various trackways from the third and first millennia BC.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work of John Coles, <a href="/wiki/Bryony_Coles" title="Bryony Coles">Bryony Coles</a>, and the Somerset Levels Project was recognised in 1996 when they won the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_Industries" title="Imperial Chemical Industries">Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)</a> Award for the best archaeological project offering a major contribution to knowledge,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2006 with the European Archaeological Heritage Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">Dendrochronology</a> (tree-ring dating) of the timbers has enabled precise dating of the track, showing it was built in 3807 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-new_scientist_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-new_scientist-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Saul_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Saul-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This dating led to claims that the Sweet Track was the oldest roadway in the world,<sup id="cite_ref-Current_Archaeology_intro_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Current_Archaeology_intro-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until the discovery in 2009 of a 6,000-year-old trackway built in 4100 BC, in <a href="/wiki/Plumstead" title="Plumstead">Plumstead</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Belmarsh_prison" class="mw-redirect" title="Belmarsh prison">Belmarsh prison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Analysis of the Sweet Track's timbers has aided research into <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic Era</a> dendrochronology; comparisons with wood from the <a href="/wiki/River_Trent" title="River Trent">River Trent</a> and a submerged forest at <a href="/wiki/Stolford" class="mw-redirect" title="Stolford">Stolford</a> enabled a fuller mapping of the rings, and their relationship with the climate of the period.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The wood used to build the track is now classed as <a href="/wiki/Bog-wood" title="Bog-wood">bog-wood</a>, the name given to wood (of any source) that for long periods (sometimes hundreds of thousands of years) has been buried in peat bogs, and kept from <a href="/wiki/Decomposition" title="Decomposition">decaying</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Acid" title="Acid">acidic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hypoxia_(environmental)" title="Hypoxia (environmental)">anaerobic</a> bog conditions. Bog-wood usually is stained brown by <a href="/wiki/Tannin" title="Tannin">tannins</a> dissolved in the acidic water, and represents an early stage of <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">fossilisation</a>. The age of the track prompted large-scale excavations in 1973, funded by the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Environment,_Food_and_Rural_Affairs" title="Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs">Department of the Environment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-brunning_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brunning-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hache_222.1_Prespective.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Hache_222.1_Prespective.jpg/220px-Hache_222.1_Prespective.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Hache_222.1_Prespective.jpg/330px-Hache_222.1_Prespective.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Hache_222.1_Prespective.jpg/440px-Hache_222.1_Prespective.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4592" data-file-height="3056" /></a><figcaption>A polished jadeitite axe head from the Museum of Toulouse</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1973 a <a href="/wiki/Jadeitite" title="Jadeitite">jadeitite</a> axehead was found alongside the track; it is thought to have been placed there as an offering.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BM_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BM-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of over 100 similar axe heads found in Britain and Ireland, its good condition and its precious material suggest that it was a symbolic axe, rather than one used to cut wood.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of the difficulty of working this material, which was derived from the Alpine area of Europe, all the axe heads of this type found in Great Britain are thought to have been non-utilitarian and to have represented some form of currency or be the products of gift exchange.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Radiocarbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Radiocarbon">Radiocarbon</a> dating of the peat in which the axe head was discovered suggests that it was deposited in about 3200 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wooden artefacts found at the site include paddles, a dish, arrow shafts, parts of four hazel bows, a <a href="/wiki/Throwing_axe" title="Throwing axe">throwing axe</a>, yew pins, digging sticks, a <a href="/wiki/Mattock" title="Mattock">mattock</a>, a comb, toggles, and a spoon fragment. Finds made from other materials, such as flint flakes, arrowheads, and a <a href="/wiki/Flint_tool" class="mw-redirect" title="Flint tool">chipped flint axe</a> (in mint condition) have also been made.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Geophysical" class="mw-redirect" title="Geophysical">geophysical</a> survey of the area in 2008 showed unclear <a href="/wiki/Magnetometer" title="Magnetometer">magnetometer</a> data; the wood may be influencing the peat's <a href="/wiki/Hydrology" title="Hydrology">hydrology</a>, causing the loss or collection of minerals within the pore water and peat matrix.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Builders">Builders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweet_Track&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Builders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Britain" title="Prehistoric Britain">Prehistoric Britain</a></div> <p>The community that constructed the trackway were Neolithic farmers who had colonised the area around 3900 BC, and the evidence suggests that they were, by the time of construction, well organised and settled.<sup id="cite_ref-Costen_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Costen-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before this human incursion, the uplands surrounding the levels were heavily wooded, but local inhabitants began to clear these forests about this time to make way for an economy that was predominately pastoral with small amounts of cultivation.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the winter, the flooded areas of the levels would have provided this fishing, hunting, foraging and farming community with abundant fish and wildfowl; in the summer, the drier areas provided rich, open grassland for grazing cattle and sheep, reeds, wood, and timber for construction, and abundant wild animals, birds, fruit, and seeds.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The need to reach the islands in the bog was sufficiently pressing for them to mount the enormous communal activity required for the task of stockpiling the timber and building the trackway, presumably when the waters were at their lowest after a dry period.<sup id="cite_ref-Costen_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Costen-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work required for the construction of the track demonstrates that they had advanced woodworking skills and suggests some differentiation of occupation among the workers.<sup id="cite_ref-Costen_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Costen-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also appear to have been managing the surrounding woodland for at least 120 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Costen_26-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Costen-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction">Construction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweet_Track&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sweet_track_cross_section2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Sweet_track_cross_section2.jpg/220px-Sweet_track_cross_section2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Sweet_track_cross_section2.jpg/330px-Sweet_track_cross_section2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Sweet_track_cross_section2.jpg/440px-Sweet_track_cross_section2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3347" data-file-height="2454" /></a><figcaption>Diagram showing a cross section of the Sweet Track</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sweet_Track_replica.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Two wooden posts set in the ground and crossing at an angle supporting a wooden board which disappears into tall green reeds" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Sweet_Track_replica.jpg/220px-Sweet_Track_replica.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Sweet_Track_replica.jpg/330px-Sweet_Track_replica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Sweet_Track_replica.jpg/440px-Sweet_Track_replica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>A replica of the Sweet Track</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reconstruction_of_the_Sweet_Track.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Reconstruction_of_the_Sweet_Track.jpg/220px-Reconstruction_of_the_Sweet_Track.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Reconstruction_of_the_Sweet_Track.jpg/330px-Reconstruction_of_the_Sweet_Track.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Reconstruction_of_the_Sweet_Track.jpg/440px-Reconstruction_of_the_Sweet_Track.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1441" data-file-height="852" /></a><figcaption>Digital reconstruction of the Sweet Track, southern end</figcaption></figure> <p>Built in 3807 or 3806 BC,<sup id="cite_ref-Current_Archaeology_somerset-levels_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Current_Archaeology_somerset-levels-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BM_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BM-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the track was a walkway consisting mainly of planks of <a href="/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oak</a> laid end-to-end, supported by crossed pegs of <a href="/wiki/Ash_tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Ash tree">ash</a>, oak, and <a href="/wiki/Tilia" title="Tilia">lime</a>, driven into the underlying peat.<sup id="cite_ref-bm_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bm-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The planks, which were up to 40 centimetres (16 in) wide, 3 metres (120 in) long and less than 5 centimetres (2.0 in) thick, were cut from trees up to 400 years old and 1 metre (39 in) in diameter, felled and split using only stone axes, wooden wedges, and mallets.<sup id="cite_ref-Coles_Bryony_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coles_Bryony-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The length, straightness, and lack of forks or branches in the pegs suggest that they were taken from <a href="/wiki/Coppicing" title="Coppicing">coppiced</a> woodland.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Longitudinal log rails up to 6.1 metres (20 ft) long and 7.6 centimetres (3.0 in) in diameter, made of mostly <a href="/wiki/Hazel" title="Hazel">hazel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alder" title="Alder">alder</a>, were laid down and held in place with the pegs, which were driven at an angle across the rails and into the peat base of the bog.<sup id="cite_ref-bm_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bm-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-otter_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-otter-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notches were then cut into the planks to fit the pegs, and the planks were laid along the X shapes to form the walkway.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some places a second rail was placed on top of the first one to bring the plank above it level with the rest of the walkway.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the planks were then stabilised with slender, vertical wooden pegs driven through holes cut near the end of the planks and into the peat, and sometimes the clay, beneath.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the southern end of the construction smaller trees were used, and the planks split across the grain to utilise the full diameter of the trunk.<sup id="cite_ref-Coles_Bryony_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coles_Bryony-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fragments of other tree species including <a href="/wiki/Holly" title="Holly">holly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willow" title="Willow">willow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Populus" title="Populus">poplar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dogwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Dogwood">dogwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivy">ivy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birch" title="Birch">birch</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Apple" title="Apple">apple</a> have also been found.<sup id="cite_ref-sshersweettrack_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sshersweettrack-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Wetland" title="Wetland">wetland</a> setting indicates that the track components must have arrived <a href="/wiki/Prefabrication" title="Prefabrication">prefabricated</a>, before being assembled on site,<sup id="cite_ref-bm_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bm-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although the presence of wood chips and chopped branches indicates that some trimming was performed locally.<sup id="cite_ref-sshersweettrack_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sshersweettrack-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track was constructed from about 200,000 kilograms (440,000 lb) of timber, but Coles estimates that once the materials were transported to the site, ten men could have assembled it in one day.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Sweet Track was used only for about ten years;<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> rising water levels may have engulfed it, and therefore curtailed its use.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The variety of objects found alongside the track suggest that it was in daily use as part of the farming life of the community.<sup id="cite_ref-Costen_26-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Costen-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since its discovery, it has been determined that parts of the Sweet Track were built along the route of an even earlier track, the <a href="/wiki/Post_Track" title="Post Track">Post Track</a>, which was constructed thirty years earlier in 3838 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-hill-cotttingham_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hill-cotttingham-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Conservation">Conservation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweet_Track&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Conservation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the track remains in its original location, which is now within the <a href="/wiki/Shapwick_Heath" title="Shapwick Heath">Shapwick Heath</a> <a href="/wiki/Biological_Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest" class="mw-redirect" title="Biological Site of Special Scientific Interest">biological Site of Special Scientific Interest</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Nature_Reserve" class="mw-redirect" title="National Nature Reserve">National Nature Reserve</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following purchase of land by the <a href="/wiki/National_Heritage_Memorial_Fund" title="National Heritage Memorial Fund">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a>, and installation of a water pumping and distribution system along a 500-metre (1,600 ft) section, several hundred metres of the track's length are now being actively conserved.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This method of preserving wetland archaeological remains (maintaining a high water table and saturating the site) is rare.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 500-metre (1,600 ft) section, which lies within the land owned by the <a href="/wiki/Nature_Conservancy_Council" title="Nature Conservancy Council">Nature Conservancy Council</a>, has been surrounded by a clay bank to prevent drainage into surrounding lower peat fields, and water levels are regularly monitored.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The viability of this method is demonstrated by comparing it with the nearby Abbot's Way, which has not had similar treatment, and which in 1996 was found to have become dewatered and desiccated.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Evaluation and maintenance of water levels in the Shapwick Heath Nature Reserve involves the Nature Conservancy Council, the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Environment,_Food_and_Rural_Affairs" title="Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs">Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</a>, and the Somerset Levels Project.<sup id="cite_ref-sshersweettrack_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sshersweettrack-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the wood recovered from the Levels was visually intact, it was extremely degraded and very soft. Where possible, pieces of wood in good condition, or the worked ends of pegs, were taken away and conserved for later analysis.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conservation process involved keeping the wood in heated tanks in a solution of <a href="/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol" title="Polyethylene glycol">polyethylene glycol</a> and, by a process of evaporation, gradually replacing the water in the wood with the wax over a period of about nine months. After this treatment the wood was removed from the tank and wiped clean. As the wax cooled and hardened, the artefact became firm and could be handled freely.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A section of the track on land owned by <a href="/wiki/Fisons" title="Fisons">Fisons</a> (who extracted peat from the area) was donated to the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> in London.<sup id="cite_ref-bm_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bm-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although this short section can be assembled for display purposes, it is currently kept in store, off site, and under controlled conditions. A reconstructed section was displayed at the <a href="/wiki/Peat_Moors_Centre" title="Peat Moors Centre">Peat Moors Centre</a> near <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury" title="Glastonbury">Glastonbury</a>. The centre was run by the Somerset Historic Environment Service, but was closed in October 2009 as a result of budget cuts imposed by <a href="/wiki/Somerset_County_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Somerset County Council">Somerset County Council</a>. The main exhibits are extant, but future public access is uncertain. Other samples of the track are held in the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Somerset" title="Museum of Somerset">Museum of Somerset</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-digitaldigging_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-digitaldigging-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sections of the track have been designated as a <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monument" title="Scheduled monument">scheduled monument</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-sshersweettrack_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sshersweettrack-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> meaning that it is a "nationally important" historic structure and <a href="/wiki/Archaeological_site" title="Archaeological site">archaeological site</a> protected against unauthorised change.<sup id="cite_ref-schedule_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schedule-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These sections are also included in <a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Heritage_at_Risk_Register" title="Heritage at Risk Register">Heritage at Risk Register</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sweet_Track&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_agriculture" title="History of agriculture">Farming</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution" title="Neolithic Revolution">Neolithic Revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Founder_crops" title="Founder crops">Founder crops</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_World_crops" title="New World crops">New World crops</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ard_(plough)" title="Ard (plough)">Ard / plough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celt_(tool)" title="Celt (tool)">Celt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digging_stick" title="Digging stick">Digging stick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domestication" title="Domestication">Domestication</a></li> 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arrow" title="Arrow">Arrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boomerang" title="Boomerang">Boomerang</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Throwing_stick" title="Throwing stick">throwing stick</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bow_and_arrow" title="Bow and arrow">Bow and arrow</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_archery" title="History of archery">history</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravettian#Hunting" title="Gravettian">Nets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spear" title="Spear">Spear</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spear-thrower" title="Spear-thrower">spear-thrower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baton_fragment_(Palart_310)" title="Baton fragment (Palart 310)">baton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpoon" title="Harpoon">harpoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears" title="Schöningen spears">Schöningen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woomera_(spear-thrower)" title="Woomera (spear-thrower)">woomera</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Projectile_point" title="Projectile point">Projectile points</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arrowhead" title="Arrowhead">Arrowhead</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Transverse_arrowhead" title="Transverse arrowhead">Transverse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bare_Island_projectile_point" title="Bare Island projectile point">Bare Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cascade_point" title="Cascade point">Cascade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clovis_point" title="Clovis point">Clovis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creswellian_culture" title="Creswellian culture">Cresswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_point" title="Cumberland point">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eden_point" title="Eden point">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folsom_point" title="Folsom point">Folsom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamoka_projectile_point" title="Lamoka projectile point">Lamoka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manis_Mastodon_site" title="Manis Mastodon site">Manis Mastodon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plano_point" title="Plano point">Plano</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Game_drive_system" title="Game drive system">Game drive system</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_jump" title="Buffalo jump">Buffalo jump</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Lithic_technology" title="Lithic technology">Toolmaking</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Industry_(archaeology)" title="Industry (archaeology)">Earliest toolmaking</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oldowan" title="Oldowan">Oldowan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acheulean" title="Acheulean">Acheulean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mousterian" title="Mousterian">Mousterian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurignacian" title="Aurignacian">Aurignacian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clovis_culture" title="Clovis culture">Clovis culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupstone" title="Cupstone">Cupstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire_hardening" title="Fire hardening">Fire hardening</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravettian" title="Gravettian">Gravettian culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafting" title="Hafting">Hafting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hand_axe" title="Hand axe">Hand axe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grooves_(archaeology)" title="Grooves (archaeology)">Grooves</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langdale_axe_industry" title="Langdale axe industry">Langdale axe industry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levallois_technique" title="Levallois technique">Levallois technique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_core" title="Lithic core">Lithic core</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_reduction" title="Lithic reduction">Lithic reduction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_analysis" title="Lithic analysis">analysis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debitage" title="Debitage">debitage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_flake" title="Lithic flake">flake</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithic_technology" title="Lithic technology">Lithic technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magdalenian" title="Magdalenian">Magdalenian culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferrous_metallurgy" title="Ferrous metallurgy">Metallurgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microblade_technology" title="Microblade technology">Microblade technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grime%27s_Graves" title="Grime's Graves">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prepared-core_technique" title="Prepared-core technique">Prepared-core technique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solutrean" title="Solutrean">Solutrean industry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Striking_platform" title="Striking platform">Striking platform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tool_stone" title="Tool stone">Tool stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uniface" title="Uniface">Uniface</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yubetsu_technique" title="Yubetsu technique">Yubetsu technique</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em"><a href="/wiki/Artifact_(archaeology)" title="Artifact (archaeology)">Other tools</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adze" title="Adze">Adze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stitching_awl" title="Stitching awl">Awl</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gravettian#Use_of_animal_remains" title="Gravettian">bone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axe" title="Axe">Axe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bannerstone" title="Bannerstone">Bannerstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blade_(archaeology)" title="Blade (archaeology)">Blade</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prismatic_blade" title="Prismatic blade">prismatic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bone_tool" title="Bone tool">Bone tool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bow_drill" title="Bow drill">Bow drill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burin_(lithic_flake)" title="Burin (lithic flake)">Burin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canoe#History" title="Canoe">Canoe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oar" title="Oar">Oar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pesse_canoe" title="Pesse canoe">Pesse canoe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chopper_(archaeology)" title="Chopper (archaeology)">Chopper</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chopping_tool" title="Chopping tool">tool</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleaver_(Stone_Age_tool)" title="Cleaver (Stone Age tool)">Cleaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denticulate_tool" title="Denticulate tool">Denticulate tool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire_plough" title="Fire plough">Fire plough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire-saw" title="Fire-saw">Fire-saw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hammerstone" title="Hammerstone">Hammerstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knife" title="Knife">Knife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microlith" title="Microlith">Microlith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quern-stone" title="Quern-stone">Quern-stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racloir" title="Racloir">Racloir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rope" title="Rope">Rope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scraper_(archaeology)" title="Scraper (archaeology)">Scraper</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grattoir_de_c%C3%B4t%C3%A9" title="Grattoir de côté">side</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stone_tool" title="Stone tool">Stone tool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tally_stick#Paleolithic_tally_sticks" title="Tally stick">Tally stick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_weapons#Copper_Age" title="History of weapons">Weapons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wheel" title="Wheel">Wheel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bronocice_pot" title="Bronocice pot">illustration</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Architecture" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_architecture" title="History of architecture">Architecture</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Ceremonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kiva" title="Kiva">Kiva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyramid" title="Pyramid">Pyramid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menhir" title="Menhir">Standing stones</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Megalith" title="Megalith">megalith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stone_row" title="Stone row">row</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonehenge" title="Stonehenge">Stonehenge</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Dwellings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_architecture" title="Neolithic architecture">Neolithic architecture</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_long_house" title="Neolithic long house">long house</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_megalith_architecture" title="British megalith architecture">British megalith architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_megalith_architecture" title="Nordic megalith architecture">Nordic megalith architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burdei" title="Burdei">Burdei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave" title="Cave">Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliff_dwelling" title="Cliff dwelling">Cliff dwelling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dugout_(shelter)" title="Dugout (shelter)">Dugout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hut" title="Hut">Hut</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quiggly_hole" title="Quiggly hole">Quiggly hole</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacal" title="Jacal">Jacal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longhouse" title="Longhouse">Longhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudbrick" title="Mudbrick">Mudbrick</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mehrgarh#Lifestyle_and_technology" title="Mehrgarh">Mehrgarh</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pit-house" title="Pit-house">Pit-house</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navajo_pueblitos" title="Navajo pueblitos">Pueblitos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pueblo" title="Pueblo">Pueblo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rock_shelter" title="Rock shelter">Rock shelter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blombos_Cave" title="Blombos Cave">Blombos Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abri_de_la_Madeleine" title="Abri de la Madeleine">Abri de la Madeleine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibudu_Cave" title="Sibudu Cave">Sibudu Cave</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roundhouse_(dwelling)" title="Roundhouse (dwelling)">Roundhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stilt_house" title="Stilt house">Stilt house</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_pile_dwellings_around_the_Alps" title="Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps">Alp pile dwellings</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ness_of_Brodgar" title="Ness of Brodgar">Stone roof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wattle_and_daub" title="Wattle and daub">Wattle and daub</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Water management</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Check_dam" title="Check dam">Check dam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cistern" title="Cistern">Cistern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flush_toilet#History" title="Flush toilet">Flush toilet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reservoir" title="Reservoir">Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Well" title="Well">Well</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9em">Other architecture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Feature_(archaeology)" title="Feature (archaeology)">Archaeological features</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broch" title="Broch">Broch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnt_mound" title="Burnt mound">Burnt mound</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fulacht_fiadh" title="Fulacht fiadh">fulacht fiadh</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Causewayed_enclosure" title="Causewayed enclosure">Causewayed enclosure</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tor_enclosure" title="Tor enclosure">Tor enclosure</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neolithic_circular_enclosures_in_Central_Europe" title="Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe">Circular enclosure</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goseck_Circle" title="Goseck Circle">Goseck</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cursus" title="Cursus">Cursus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henge" title="Henge">Henge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thornborough_Henges" title="Thornborough Henges">Thornborough</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megalithic_architectural_elements" title="Megalithic architectural elements">Megalithic architectural elements</a></li> <li><a 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