River Hull a story of human evolution - Lee Patrick Wilson

The River Hull a short river journey of 22 miles that spans 1000's of generations of Human development.

From pre historic man first exploring the river as the ice age retreated following fresh water and new hunting grounds, then spanning generations later when humans made settlements along the fertile surrounding valleys establishing agriculture and changing the landscape of the natural world to a productive environment of open farmland and pastures.

The evolution of Tribal groups as population grew as a result of settlement & remaining this way for millennia more, worship of the natural world with expert knowledge of the local landscape, plants, foods and natural medicines monitoring the sun and stars and learning the cycles of the solar system to ensure the planting of crops at the right time.

Until the natural world collided with the next phase of human evolution the Roman Establishment & worship of man gods.

When globalisation would explode onto the world, tribes become nations local produce and knowledge is shared with the wider world or lost as new ideas and beliefs are adopted. Humanity slowly loses its freedom in exchange for abundance and humanities connection to the natural world it evolved from is lost.

Land is divided and feudalism & serfdom place humanity in bondage, the industrial age and technology further increase population and the city is created, people are forced to leave the country and agricultural existence behind them instead to live & work in the factories.

The new age of industrial man is born perhaps an inevitability in Human evolution, yet continues the most primal urges to explore new lands, to explore map and conquer, across the globe the age of natural man ceases to exist as the new world is established and the cycle is repeated in every land and the River Hull was a part of all of this.

Yet modern man still aches to fulfil primal instincts which echo from his primal memory summed up by casting a line out to the river on a sunny day.