by Matthew Law

The South West Britain Palaeobiodiversity Maps are a series of maps containing data provided by various specialists, which show the known past distributions of various biological organisms, ranging from the microscopic to large mammals, during different periods of the past. These periods are necessarily broad due to the resolution of dating from many sites, and should not be taken to imply absolute contemporaneity across sites.

Taxa that would have lived on the site are indicated with a green pin, taxa whose remains are definitely brought in from elsewhere (for example, oysters on an inland site) are shown with a red pin. Yellow pins indicate species that may have lived within the vicinity of the site, but could equally be imported. Each pin contains information about the taxa present, and details of the source of the information.

Special thanks are due to Professor Ken Thomas of the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, for his comments on an earlier draft of the maps.

THE MAPS

Select 'tools' on the menu to the right of the map to add or remove layers, or to search the map. Click here to view full page

CONTRIBUTORS

Joss Davis  

Ben Gearey (University of Birmingham) 

Matthew Law  

Clare Randall (Bournemouth University) 

Kenneth Thomas (University College London) 

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