If you look carfeully at this close up of the fabric of a  Middle Bronze Age pottery urn from Ramsgate you can see two aspects of human interaction with the landscape which are preserved at a relatively small scale in an everyday object.

In the centre of the picture the finger prints of the potter have decorated the surface of the vessel, but the fabric of the clay that was shaped by the maker was made from a combination of the local clay, stiffened with inclusions of fragments of crushed burnt flint which was also taken by the potter from the local landscape.

The material was worked by the potters into the common forms that were part of their culture but the feel of the material was a direct reflection of the immediate landscape of the potter. Each region may have shared common vessel types, which could be transmitted through examples and ideas, but the materials the vessels were made from were gathered locally and were usually distinctive in their fabric which were rooted in the  local landscape.