Chapter Six of the Topic: Life In Landscape – Being, visions of the Far Place, the gors and the gallt, with notes various on flora and fauna, hunting, herding, agriculture, food and matters diverse.

Here’s a list I’ve found very useful, which should be applicable to many ‘forested’ Odaylan, hsunchen or barbarian campaigns. It’s derived from excavations and a twelve month recreation of a Mesolithic settlement at Star Carr in Yorkshire, and details basic environmental resources.

(While most of the plants mentioned are still common in England, it’s been a long time since wild ox, beaver, elk or boar roamed Derbyshire or the Yorkshire hills, which the ancestral homes of my family and my affines.

FOOD

Trees

• willow
• mountain ash
• open vegetation

Water Birds

• duck
• lapwing
• buzzard
• red-throated diver
• great grebe
• margenser
• white stork
• crane

Insectivores

• hedgehog

Rodents

• beaver
• hare

Herbivores

• wild pig
• red deer
• wild ox
• roe deer
• elk

FIRE

Trees

• birch
• willow

Fungus

• fomes fomentarius

Minerals

• iron pyrites
• flint

Mosses

• eurynchium
• camptotecium

CLOTHING

Furs

• pine marten
• red fox
• wolf
• badger
• beaver
• hare
• wild ox
• wild pig
• elk
• red deer
• roe deer

TOOLS AND WEAPONS

Trees

• silver birch

Bones and Antlers

• wild ox
• elk
• red deer

Minerals

• flint
• chert
• calcified crystalvitrie tuff
• chloretic sandy siltstone
• grey wacke
• quartz

ADORNMENTS

Minerals

• lias shale
• haematite
• amber

Feathers

• teal
• lapwing
• buzzard
• little grebe
• red-throated diver
• great grebe
• morganser
• white stork
• crane

Antlers

• red deer

Proceed to Chapter Seven: Imports and Exports …