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The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland (2023)
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Reid, V., Milek, K., O'Brien, C., Sveinbjarnarson, Ó. G., & Noble, G. (2024). The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland. Geoarchaeology, 39(3), 238-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21990

Around the world, poorly preserved buildings and occupation deposits often represent the primary evidence for archaeological structures and settlements. Integrated geoarchaeological methods, such as soil chemistry and micromorphology, can be used to... Read More about The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland.

Revealing the invisible floor: Integrated geoarchaeological analyses of ephemeral occupation surfaces at an early medieval farmhouse in upland Perthshire, Scotland (2023)
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Reid, V., Milek, K., O'Brien, C., Sneddon, D., & Strachan, D. (2023). Revealing the invisible floor: Integrated geoarchaeological analyses of ephemeral occupation surfaces at an early medieval farmhouse in upland Perthshire, Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 159, Article 105825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105825

Poorly defined occupation surfaces restrict the ability to interpret the use of space in archaeological structures and settlements around the world. Integrated geoarchaeological methods, such as soil chemistry and micromorphology, can provide informa... Read More about Revealing the invisible floor: Integrated geoarchaeological analyses of ephemeral occupation surfaces at an early medieval farmhouse in upland Perthshire, Scotland.

A Detailed Record of Deglacial and Early Post-Glacial Fluvial Evolution: The River Ure in North Yorkshire, UK (2021)
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Innes, J., Mitchell, W., O’Brien, C., Roberts, D., Rutherford, M., & Bridgland, D. (2021). A Detailed Record of Deglacial and Early Post-Glacial Fluvial Evolution: The River Ure in North Yorkshire, UK. Quaternary, 4(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010009

The lower reaches of the River Ure, on the flanks of the Pennine Hills in northern England, contain sedimentary and erosional landforms that are a record of fluvial activity during deglaciation and valley-glacier retreat at the end of the last (Deven... Read More about A Detailed Record of Deglacial and Early Post-Glacial Fluvial Evolution: The River Ure in North Yorkshire, UK.

Late Devensian environments in the Vale of Mowbray, North Yorkshire, UK: evidence from palynology (2009)
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Innes, J., Bridgland, D., Mitchell, W., Rutherford, M., O'Brien, C., & Long, A. (2009). Late Devensian environments in the Vale of Mowbray, North Yorkshire, UK: evidence from palynology. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 120(4), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.08.007

Two radiocarbon-dated Lateglacial pollen diagrams from the Vale of Mowbray (northern Vale of York) are presented from sites in the lowlands between the washlands courses of the rivers Swale and Ure in North Yorkshire, an area with little previous pal... Read More about Late Devensian environments in the Vale of Mowbray, North Yorkshire, UK: evidence from palynology.

Vegetation change during the mesolithic and Neolithic on the Mizen Peninsula, Co.Cork, south-west Ireland (2008)
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Mighall, T., Timpany, S., Blackford, J., Innes, J., O'Brien, C., O'Brien, W., & Harrison, S. (2008). Vegetation change during the mesolithic and Neolithic on the Mizen Peninsula, Co.Cork, south-west Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 17(6), 617-628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-007-0136-4

Despite being rich in later prehistoric and historic archaeology that includes megalithic monuments, Bronze age copper mines and medieval castles, the Mizen Peninsula, south-west Ireland, has revealed little about its stone age past. Evidence for a M... Read More about Vegetation change during the mesolithic and Neolithic on the Mizen Peninsula, Co.Cork, south-west Ireland.

A1 palaeoecological survey. (2005)
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Long, A., O'Brien, C., Rutherford, M., Wynne, S., Davis, S., & Innes, J. (2005). A1 palaeoecological survey. [No known commissioning body]

Vegetation, landscape and human activity in Midland Ireland: mire and lake records from the Lough Kinale-Derragh Lough area, Central Ireland (2005)
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Brown, A., Hatton, J., O'Brien, C., Selby, K., Langdon, P., Stuijts, I., & Caseldine, C. (2005). Vegetation, landscape and human activity in Midland Ireland: mire and lake records from the Lough Kinale-Derragh Lough area, Central Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 14(2), 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-005-0063-1

A high-resolution pollen record for the Holocene has been obtained from Derragh Bog, a small raised mire located on a peninsula in Lough Kinale-Derragh Lough, in Central Ireland as part of the Discovery Programme ( Ireland) Lake Settlements Project.... Read More about Vegetation, landscape and human activity in Midland Ireland: mire and lake records from the Lough Kinale-Derragh Lough area, Central Ireland.

A sediment-based multiproxy palaeoecological approach to the environmental archaeology of lake dwellings (crannogs), Central Ireland (2005)
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O'Brien, C., Selby, K., Ruiz, Z., Brown, A., Dinnin, M., Caseldine, C., …Stuijts, I. (2005). A sediment-based multiproxy palaeoecological approach to the environmental archaeology of lake dwellings (crannogs), Central Ireland. Holocene, 15(5), 707-719. https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683605hl845rp

A multiproxy study of Ballywillin Crannog, Lough Kinale, central Ireland is presented. The methodology used reveals the wealth of information that a multiproxy approach can contribute in lake settlement studies. Plant macrofossils, pollen and spores,... Read More about A sediment-based multiproxy palaeoecological approach to the environmental archaeology of lake dwellings (crannogs), Central Ireland.

A multi-proxy study of Holocene lake development, lake settlement and vegetation history in central Ireland (2005)
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Selby, K., O'Brien, C., Brown, A., & Stuijts, I. (2005). A multi-proxy study of Holocene lake development, lake settlement and vegetation history in central Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20(2), 147-168. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.891

Stratigraphical investigations, geomorphological mapping, and diatom, plant macro-fossil and pollen analyses were undertaken in and around two lakes in central Ireland to establish correlations between changes in lake conditions and catchment vegetat... Read More about A multi-proxy study of Holocene lake development, lake settlement and vegetation history in central Ireland.

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Younger Dryas in Jersey, UK Channel Islands, based on plant and insect fossils (2004)
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Jones, R., O'Brien, C., & Coope, G. (2004). Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Younger Dryas in Jersey, UK Channel Islands, based on plant and insect fossils. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 115(1), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7878%2804%2980033-6

Plant and insect remains from sand and organic silt intercalated with solifluction deposits, the silt dated to an approximate 230 radiocarbon-year period during the first part of the Younger Dryas Stadial of the Devensian Lateglacial, are described a... Read More about Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Younger Dryas in Jersey, UK Channel Islands, based on plant and insect fossils.

Early and Middle Pleistocene vegetation history of the Medoc region, southwest France (2003)
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O'Brien, C., & Jones, R. (2003). Early and Middle Pleistocene vegetation history of the Medoc region, southwest France. Journal of Quaternary Science, 18(6), 557-579. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.779

Pleistocene deposits, together with their pollen, plant macrofossil, foraminiferal, dinoflagellate and coleopteran remains, from five sites along the Atlantic coast of the Medoc Peninsula are described and discussed. Sediments making up the Negade Fo... Read More about Early and Middle Pleistocene vegetation history of the Medoc region, southwest France.