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Agricultural origins: where next? (2020)
Book Chapter
Gron, K., Sørensen, L., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2020). Agricultural origins: where next?. In K. Gron, L. Sørensen, & P. Rowley-conwy (Eds.), Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan-European Perspective on Neolithisation (1-5). Oxbow Books

‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation (2020)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2020). ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation. Endeavour, 44(4), Article 100750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100750

Despite some scepticism, the suggestion by Hartung in 1976 that the report in the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury corresponded to a meteorite impact with the moon in 1178, creating the Giordano Bruno crater, retains considerable support, particula... Read More about ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation.

An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia (2020)
Journal Article
Jensen, T. Z. T., Sjöström, A., Fischer, A., Rosengren, E., Lanigan, L. T., Bennike, O., Richter, K. K., Gron, K. J., Mackie, M., Mortensen, M. F., Sørensen, L., Chivall, D., Iversen, K. H., Taurozzi, A. J., Olsen, J., Schroeder, H., Milner, N., Sørensen, M., & Collins, M. J. (2020). An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 17244. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74258-8

The extensive peat bogs of Southern Scandinavia have yielded rich Mesolithic archaeological assemblages, with one of the most iconic artefacts being the bone point. Although great in number they remain understudied. Here we present a combined investi... Read More about An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia.

The role of innovation in advancing understanding of hydrological processes (2020)
Journal Article
Bracken, L. J., Cockshut, L., Taylor, J., & Cotterill, S. (2020). The role of innovation in advancing understanding of hydrological processes. Hydrological Processes, 34(23), 4404-4416. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13890

Innovation and understanding hydrological processes are intimately linked. Existing research has demonstrated the role of technological, societal and political drivers in shaping and delivering new understandings in hydrological processes. In this pa... Read More about The role of innovation in advancing understanding of hydrological processes.

The seven liberal arts: Commentary and Analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Thomson, D., & Tanner, B. (2019). The seven liberal arts: Commentary and Analysis. In G. Gasper, C. Panti, T. McLeish, & H. Smithson (Eds.), Knowing and speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the liberal arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the generation of sounds' (448-482). Oxford University Press

Separating caprine (Capra/Ovis) distal tibiae: A case study from the Polish Neolithic (2019)
Journal Article
Gron, K. J., Rowley‐Conwy, P., Jensen, T. Z. T., Taurozzi, A. J., & Marciniak, A. (2020). Separating caprine (Capra/Ovis) distal tibiae: A case study from the Polish Neolithic. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 30(2), 170-179. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2844

Distinguishing the skeletal remains of sheep (Ovis aries) from goats (Capra hircus) is a fundamental and habitual problem in zooarchaeology. Such a distinction is desirable because the taxa can be raised to serve variable purposes, are behaviourally... Read More about Separating caprine (Capra/Ovis) distal tibiae: A case study from the Polish Neolithic.

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (2019)
Journal Article
Frantz, L. A., Haile, J., Lin, A. T., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V. E., Daly, K. G., Battista, V. M., Price, M., Gron, K. J., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R.-M., Arbuckle, B., Bӑlӑşescu, A., Barnett, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., …Larson, G. (2019). Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(35), 17231-17238. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901169116

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the... Read More about Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe.

In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices (2019)
Journal Article
Tanner, B., Vijayaraghavan, R., Roarty, B., Danilewsky, A., & McNally, P. (2019). In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices. Microelectronics Reliability, 99, 232-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2019.06.006

The application of X-ray Diffraction Imaging to measure in operando thermal strains at individually powered components within fully packaged LM3046 silicon devices is described. It is shown that as the local strains increase with power dissipated, ab... Read More about In-Operando X-ray diffraction imaging of thermal strains in fully packaged silicon devices.

Determinants of change in accelerometer-assessed sedentary behaviour in children 0 to 6 years of age: A systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Azevedo, L. B., van Sluijs, E. M., Moore, H. J., & Hesketh, K. (2019). Determinants of change in accelerometer-assessed sedentary behaviour in children 0 to 6 years of age: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 20(10), 1441-1464. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12882

Sedentary behaviour tracks from early to middle childhood, suggesting the need to intervene early. The aim of this systematic review was to identify determinants of change in accelerometer‐assessed sedentary behaviour in young children, with a view t... Read More about Determinants of change in accelerometer-assessed sedentary behaviour in children 0 to 6 years of age: A systematic review.

Direct observation of stress relaxation process in 4H-SiC homoepitaxial layers via in-situ synchrotron X-ray topography (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guo, J., Yang, Y., Raghothamachar, B., Dudley, M., Welt, S., Danilewsky, A., McNally, P., & Tanner, B. (2018, December). Direct observation of stress relaxation process in 4H-SiC homoepitaxial layers via in-situ synchrotron X-ray topography. Presented at 2017 International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials, Washington DC

Asnæs Havnemark: a late Mesolithic Ertebølle coastal site in western Sjælland, Denmark (2018)
Journal Article
Price, T. D., Ritchie, K., Gron, K. J., Gebauer, A. B., & Nielsen, J. (2018). Asnæs Havnemark: a late Mesolithic Ertebølle coastal site in western Sjælland, Denmark. Danish Journal of Archaeology, 7(2), 255–276. https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2018.1551979

Archaeological material was initially discovered in 1993, eroding from a small cliff on the north side of the peninsula of Asnæs near the town of Kalundborg in western Sjælland, Denmark. Ertebølle Excavations in 2007 exposed the Ertebøllwe cultural l... Read More about Asnæs Havnemark: a late Mesolithic Ertebølle coastal site in western Sjælland, Denmark.

A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire (2018)
Journal Article
Gron, K. J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Fernandez-Dominguez, E., Gröcke, D. R., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G. M., & Patterson, W. P. (2018). A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 84, 111-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2018.15

The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’ is an Early Neolithic pit located just south-east of Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Excavations recovered a faunal assemblage unique in its composition, consisting of both wild and domestic species, as well as large quantities of cera... Read More about A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire.

Cultural and economic negotiation: a new perspective on the Neolithic Transition of Southern Scandinavia (2018)
Journal Article
Gron, K., & Sorensen, L. (2018). Cultural and economic negotiation: a new perspective on the Neolithic Transition of Southern Scandinavia. Antiquity, 92(364), 958-974. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.71

The diversity of archaeological evidence for the adoption of farming in Northern Europe has led to competing hypotheses about this critical shift in subsistence strategy. Through a review of the archaeological material alongside ethnographic evidence... Read More about Cultural and economic negotiation: a new perspective on the Neolithic Transition of Southern Scandinavia.

Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (2018)
Journal Article
Abdelhamid, A. S., Brown, T. J., Brainard, J. S., Biswas, P., Thorpe, G. C., Moore, H. J., Deane, K. H., AlAbdulghafoor, F. K., Summerbell, C. D., Worthington, H. V., Song, F., & Hooper, L. (2018). Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2018(7), Article CD003177. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd003177.pub3

Review question We reviewed randomised trials (where participants have an equal chance of being assigned to either treatment) examining effects of increasing fish- and plant-based omega-3 fats on heart and circulatory disease (called cardiovascular d... Read More about Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead (2018)
Book Chapter
Rogers, B., Gron, K., Montgomery, J., Gröcke, D., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2018). Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead. In D. Jacques, T. Phillips, & T. Lyons (Eds.), Blick mead : exploring the 'first place' in the Stonehenge landscape. Archaeological excavations at Blick Mead, Amesbury, Wiltshire 2005–2016 (127-152). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b11044

The site of Blick Mead has attracted an unusual degree of interest. In addition to its intrinsic importance as a Mesolithic site, its location less than two kilometres east of Stonehenge and its temporal overlap with the massive Mesolithic posts in t... Read More about Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead.