Archaeology - Case Studies by Topic (Section A)

Exploitation of animals:

• Lascaux (cave paintings)
• Altamira (cave paintings)
• Boxgrove (tools, bones)
• Star Carr (tools)
• Star Carr (domesticated dog?)
• Star Carr (deer frontlets)
• Trajan’s Column (horses in combat)
• Iceman (kit)
• Iceman (last meal) 
• Iceman (deer hair on body)

Exploitation of plants:

• Boxgrove (spear)
• German heidelbergensis sites (spears)
• Star Carr (wood)
• Iceman (wood)
• Londinium (wooden quayside and buildings)
• Londinium (pumping mechanisms)
• Caerleon (olive oil and wine storage in barrels and amphorae)

Art & Iconography:

• Lascaux (cave paintings)
• Altamira (cave paintings)
• Venus figurines (portable art) 
• Solutrean blades (Lascaux)
• Oetzi (tattoos)
• Trajan’s Column
• Villa of Mysteries (mosaics)

Production/Materials:

• Boxgrove (Lower paleolithic sites)
• Levallois Core technique (Neaderthals)
• Toth (experimental archaeology)
• Iceman (axe and arrows)
• Beauport Park (Roman iron working)
• Silchester (industrial areas)

Extraction:

• Olduvai Gorge (gathering cobbles)
• Boxgrove (flints)
• Star Carr (flints)
• Iceman (different types of wood and flint for kit)
• Iceman (copper ore for axe - hammer stones found to suggest mining)
• Beauport Park (iron ore seams, wood for charcoal)

Specialists:

• Solutrean blades (Upper Palaeolithic)
• Star Carr (Mesolithic hunters/tool makers)
• Beauport Park (charcoal burning, smelting, baking ore, extracting)
• Roman society (tradesmen/merchants/manufacturers)
• Iceman (maker of copper axes)

Subsistence/intensification:

• Roman agriculture (scavenging/hunting/farming/commercial agriculture)
• Roman market economy

Storage:

• Olduvai Gorge (curate behaviour - 18km from source & lack of cortex on some flakes)
• Mesolithic sites (burnt hazelnuts)
• Mesolithic Denmark and Star Carr (drying racks/nets/traps)
• Londinium (store rooms and warehousing)
• Roman sites (amphorae/pottery)
• Londinium (storage barrels)
• Roman coins (stored wealth - coin hoards)
• Forts (granaries)

Trade:

• Star Carr (movement of artefacts in and out)
• Roman amphorae (stored wine in transit)
• Caerleon (Samian artefacts) 
• Silchester (oysters and pottery from continent)
• Vindolanda Tablets
• Trajan’s Column (movement of goods)
• Caerleon (Samian and local copies)
• Londinium (Roman road network)
• Londinium (warehousing)
• Londinium, Pompeii and Caerleon (quaysides)
• Londinium, Herculaneum and Pompeii (shops)
• Londinium, Silchester, Rome, Pompeii (markets)
• Londinium (Roman coins)

Transport and Communication:

• Star Carr (paddle & jetty)
• Londinium (Roman road network)
• Londinium (quayside)
• Pompeii (wheel ruts)
• Trajan’s Column
• Vindolanda Tablets

Buildings and Structures:

• Olduvai Gorge (living floor?)
• Star Carr (platforms and huts)
• Caerleon (fort/housing)
• Londinium (fort/housing/military bases)

Territory:

• Olduvai (movement to collect cobbles)
• Star Carr/Mesolithic sites (split-sites summer/winter…