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Summary. The soil micromorphological analysis of buried soils and probable ‘midden’ deposits buried beneath alluvium from six sites in the lower Welland valley between Maxey and Etton (Cambridgeshire) has revealed a deforested early Neolithic landscape which quickly became subject to seasonal alluviation. This paper suggests that the Neolithic/Bronze Age use of this landscape is directly related to its interpretation as an alluviated floodplain rather than an alluviated, former dry‐land landscape.
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Charles A. I. French (1990) studied this question.
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