A5087202857- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Point processes and geometric inequalities
- Historical and Architectural Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
University College London
2015-2024
Museum of London Archaeology
2009-2024
Thermo Fisher Scientific (United Kingdom)
2023
British Geological Survey
2022
Institute for Fiscal Studies
2021
Institute of Archaeology
2009-2020
University of Arizona
2020
Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
2020
Kingston University
2019
University of Huddersfield
2018
Abstract For forty years, there has been a widely held belief that over 2,000 years ago the Chinese Qin developed an advanced chromate conversion coating technology (CCC) to prevent metal corrosion. This was based on detection of chromium traces surface bronze weapons buried with Terracotta Army, and same weapons’ very good preservation. We analysed weapons, lacquer soils from site, conducted experimental replications CCC accelerated ageing. Our results show presence is correlated artefact...
Significance The relationship between human population, food production, and climate change is a pressing concern in need of high-resolution, long-term perspectives. Archaeological radiocarbon dates have increasingly been used to reconstruct past population dynamics, Britain Ireland provide both sampling densities species-level sample identifications that are globally unrivalled. We use this evidence demonstrate multiple instances downturn over the Holocene coincide with periodic episodes...
ABSTRACT The last decade has seen the development of a range new statistical and computational techniques for analysing large collections radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates, often but not exclusively to make inferences about human population change in past. Here we introduce rcarbon , an open-source software package R computing language which implements many these looks foster transparent future study their strengths weaknesses. In this paper, review key assumptions, limitations potentials behind...
This synthesis paper offers a comparative perspective on how seven different Mediterranean regions, from Iberia and Morocco to the Levant, have been transformed by human natural agencies during past 10 millennia. It draws range of data sources: notably (1) archaeological site surveys ( n = 32,000) 14 C dates 12,000) as proxies for long-term population change, (2) pollen records proxy vegetation land cover 253) (3) proxies, such stable isotopes, lake, cave marine indicators hydro-climate 47)....
We have compiled an extensive database of archaeological evidence for rice across Asia, including 400 sites from mainland East Southeast Asia and South Asia. This dataset is used to compare several models the geographical origins cultivation infer most likely region(s) its subsequent outward diffusion. The approach based on regression modelling wherein goodness fit obtained power law quantile regressions archaeologically inferred age versus a least-cost distance putative origin(s). Fast...
Archaeology has wandered into exciting but daunting territory. It faces floods of new evidence about the human past that are largely digital, frequently spatial, increasingly open and often remotely sensed. The resulting terrain is littered, both with data wholly were long known previously considered junk. This paper offers an overview this diluvian information landscape aims to foster debate its wider disciplinary impact. In particular, I would argue consequences: a) go well beyond raw...
The Mediterranean has long played host to unusually intense patterns of maritime-led exchange, involving both products made beyond the basin and local, culturally distinctive goods such as oils wines that continue be well-known markers region’s economies lifestyles today. Protecting these commodities, sometimes highly emblematic them, have been specialized physical packages, which clay amphoras are perhaps most early examples. In contrast, modern steel shipping containers, occurring in...
This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) order assess what degree change impacted societies Near East. It draws on a large corpus of archaeo-demographic data, including anthropogenic radiocarbon dates (n = 10,653) archaeological site survey 22,533), 16 hydro-climatic records cave speleothems lake sediments. Where possible, inferred dynamics climatic have been made spatially congruent, their...
This paper offers a comparative study of land use and demographic development in northern southern Greece from the Neolithic to Byzantine period. Results summed probability densities (SPD) archaeological radiocarbon dates settlement numbers derived site surveys are combined with results cluster-based analysis published pollen core assemblages offer an integrated view human pressure on Greek landscape through time. We demonstrate that SPDs useful approach outline differences between regions...
We describe a simple way to construct new statistical models for spatial point pattern data. Taking two or more existing (finite Gibbs processes) we multiply the probability densities together and renormalise obtain density. call resulting model hybrid. discuss stochastic properties of hybrids, their implications, inference, computational strategies software implementation in R package <b>spatstat</b>. Hybrids are particularly useful constructing which exhibit interaction at different...
This paper offers a brief introduction to MicroPasts, web-enabled crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding project whose overall goal is promote the collection use of high quality research data via institutional community collaborations, both on- off-line. In addition introducing this initiative, discussion below reflection its lead author’s core contribution will dwell in more detail on one particular aspect MicroPasts: relevance practice public archaeology, cultural policy heritage studies.
This paper explores long-term trends in human population and vegetation change the Levant from early to late Holocene order assess when how impact has shaped region’s landscapes over millennia. To do so, we employed multiple proxies compared archaeological, pollen palaeoclimate data within a multi-scalar approach landscape dynamics at different geographical scales. We based our analysis on 14 fossil sequences applied hierarchical agglomerative clustering community classification define...
Much attention has been placed on the drivers of vegetation change Iberian Peninsula. While climate plays a key role in determining species pools within different regions and exerts strong influence broad patterning, humans, particularly during prehistory, is less clear. The aim this paper to assess prehistoric population shaping patterns eastern Iberia Balearic Islands between start Neolithic late Bronze Age. In all, 3385 radiocarbon dates have compiled across study area provide...
GIS and quantitative analysis are used to explore a series of simple but important issues in GIS-led survey. we draw on information collected during intensive archaeological field survey the island Kythera, Greece, consider four questions: relationship between terracing enclosed systems; effect vegetation recovery; site definition characterization multi-period artifact-rich landscapes; location modelling that considers some decisions behind placing particular Bronze Age settlements. have...