In Darkest England
European exploration in Africa and its effects on 19th- and 20th-century perceptions of prehistoric Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16525472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Tingle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-62 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscape History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-3768 • E-ISSN: 2160-2506 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01433768.2006.10594580 |
| OpenAlex | W2022693036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
From the sixteenth century, antiquarians regarded the ‘savage’ inhabitants of remote ‘uncivilised’ countries as a model for the inhabitants and the landscape of ancient Britain. At the end of the nineteenth century important figures in the newly emerging discipline of archaeology were influenced both by contemporary accounts of equatorial Africa and the tenets of Darwinism. This led them to propose that the apparent concentration of prehistoric monuments on chalk and limestone uplands resulted from the whole of prehistoric lowland Britain being covered by a dense, impenetrable and uninhabitable jungle, which remained in existence until it was cleared by the Anglo-Saxons. This model, although contested by some from the 1930s onwards, remained a central principle of archaeological thought until the 1970s, by which time evidence from palaeobotany, aerial survey and surface collection rendered it untenable
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Artifact (error · Clearance · Geography · Jungle · Paleobotany · Period (music · Prehistory · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History
The Wider Domain of Evolutionary Thought
The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Pre-historic times
Victorian Anthropology
Roads and tracks of Britain
Farmers and Forests in neolithic Europe
Reinventing Africa
In Darkest England and the Way Out
The Cambridgeshire landscape
Landscape Continuity and the Fossilization of Roman Fields
The Saxon Invasion and its Influence on our Character as a Race
The Megalithic Monuments of Wales
Characterizing Rural Settlement and Landscape
Report on Recent Excavations at Peacock's Farm, Shippea Hill, Cambridgeshire
Trees and woodland in the British landscape
Roman Britain and the English Settlements
The Personality of Britain
Air Survey and Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |