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Environment

Overarching themes	Palaeolithic	Mesolithic	Neolithic to MBA	LBA and Iron Age	Romano-British	Early Medieval	High Medieval	Poat Medieval	Modern
Pleistocene and Holocene climatic change (as evidenced, for example, by palaeochannel deposits)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Potential impact of future climate change upon the environment and the historic environment resource	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Changes in sea level, the configuration of sea and land, the drainage network and the spatial extent of wetlands	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Submergence of Doggerland	●	●
The impact of human activity upon woodland clearance and other changes in the regional vegetation		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
The impact of human activity upon soil development and geomorphic processes (notably alluviation, colluviation and aeolian deposition)			●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Exploitation and settlement of diverse ecological zones (including study of the pivotal highland–lowland contrast)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●

Settlement

Overarching themes	Palaeolithic	Mesolithic	Neolithic to MBA	LBA and Iron Age	Romano-British	Early Medieval	High Medieval	Post-Medieval	Modern
Distribution, density and character of hunter-gatherer cave and open sites	●	●	●
Development of agriculturally-based settlement patterns			●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Growth of urban centres and settlement hierarchies				●	●	●	●	●	●
Relationship between town and country					●	●	●	●	●
Vernacular building traditions							●	●	●

Food procurement strategies

Overarching themes	Palaeolithic	Mesolithic	Neolithic to MBA	LBA and Iron Age	Romano-British	Early Medieval	High Medieval	Post-Medieval	Modern
Hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies and mobility patterns	●	●	●
Transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural subsistence strategies		●	●
Developments in crop and animal husbandry and changes in diet and health			●	●	●	●	●	●	●
The Agricultural Revolution and the industrialisation of agriculture								●	●

The Rural Landscape

Overarching themes	Palaeolithic	Mesolithic	Neolithic to MBA	LBA and Iron Age	Romano-British	Early Medieval	High Medieval	Post-Medieval	Modern
The development of fields and field systems				●	●	●	●	●	●
The development of parks, gardens and estates								●	●
Systems of woodland management		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Development of monastic estates and post-Dissolution developments					●	●	●	●

Industry, Craft and Trade

Overarching themes	Palaeolithic	Mesolithic	Neolithic to MBA	LBA and Iron Age	Romano-British	Early Medieval	High Medieval	Post-Medieval	Modern
Systems of artefact production and exchange (lithics, pottery, metals, etc)	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
The origins and development of the Industrial Revolution								●	●
Environmental impacts of industrialisation								●	●
Industrial building traditions								●	●

Communications

Overarching themes	Palaeolithic	Mesolithic	Neolithic to MBA	LBA and Iron Age	Romano-British	Early Medieval	High Medieval	Post-Medieval	Modern
The role of rivers as movement corridors, sources of power and socio-political boundaries	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
The role of coastwise routeways		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Constructed routeways: wooden or brushwood trackways, roads, canals, tramways and railways			●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Riverine and maritime waterborne transport			●	●	●	●	●	●	●

Social, religious and political structures

Overarching themes	Palaeolithic	Mesolithic	Neolithic to MBA	LBA and Iron Age	Romano-British	Early Medieval	High Medieval	Post-Medieval	Modern
Development of prehistoric monument complexes			●	●
Development of funerary monuments and changing burial and memorial practices				●	●	●	●	●	●
Development and use of defended sites (hillforts, castles, etc)				●	●	●	●	●	●
Battlefield and skirmish sites					●	●	●	●
Development of territorial and administrative (e.g. parish) boundaries				●	●	●	●	●	●
Social and religious building traditions							●	●	●