In Sight of Doggerland: From speculative survey to landscape exploration

Fitch, Simon; Gaffney, Vincent; Thomson, Katie

doi:10.11141/ia.22.3

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“…There are advantages to marine industry too and so the mutually beneficial strategies to facilitate collaboration should not be underestimated. International examples have demonstrated how industry and research communities have successfully collaborated to study palaeolandscapes globally, including the North Sea, Baltic, and Gulf of Mexico (Fitch and Gaffney 2009;Russell and Tizzard 2011;Holmlund et al 2017;Pearson et al 2014;Moree and Sier 2015;Peeters and Amkreutz 2020). It is also ethically important that industry and archaeological communities recognise the cultural significance of sea country and its value to Traditional Owners and local communities (McNiven 2004).…”

Section: Improving Submerged Landscape Archaeology Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

Wiseman

O’Leary

Hacker

et al. 2021

Quaternary International

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Section: Improving Submerged Landscape Archaeology Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

Wiseman

O’Leary

Hacker

et al. 2021

Quaternary International

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“…In the existing historical studies, ancient environmental factors have been considered necessary to the siting of military forts [5][6][7][8][9]. In environmental studies, landscape archaeology and cultural heritage studies of ancient human settlements have also been increasing [10][11][12][13]. With the help of a multidisciplinary perspective, the association between environmental factors within the site area and the site layout has become a hot topic of current discussion [14][15][16][17].…”

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Influence of Environmental Factors on the Site Selection and Layout of Ancient Military Towns (Zhejiang Region)

Tan

Liu

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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There are many subjective inferences regarding environment-related studies in modern studies of ancient military defense heritage, and the objective quantitative analysis of citadel site selection and layout has become the key to interpreting the environmental adaptability of citadels under defense strategies. Based on this, it has been proposed in this research that the site selection of ancient military citadels in a specific region (Zhejiang) has environmental adaptability characteristics. Firstly, an elevated hydrological overlay model was established by predicting and graphically verifying the ancient hydrological thresholds through geospatial analysis strategies. Secondly, the hydrological and topographical indicators of the regional environment where the military citadel is located were digitally extracted. Finally, correlation and weight influence calculations were performed for different environmental data. The environmental adaptability characteristics of the site layout of the Ming dynasty-era Zhejiang coastal defense military citadel, based on military defense needs, were obtained. In this way, we promote digital technology for the excavation, conservation and sustainable use of heritage resources.

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“…Local developments, if they existed, have yet to be recognised. The presence of identifiable pieces in Scotland can only be understood on the basis of the existence of the socalled 'Doggerland Continent' (now covered by the North Sea), which we assume was inhabited by early prehistoric hunter-gatherers and which served as a springboard for settlement in this country (Fitch et al 2007;Sturt et al 2013;Ballin 2016). Existing finds cover Scotland from the south (e.g., Howburn) to the north (Orkney) and west (Tiree) ( Figure 1) suggesting that numerous sites once existed both within Scotland and within Doggerland towards north-west Europe and Scandinavia.…”

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Searching for the Scottish Late Upper Palaeolithic: A case study from Nethermills Farm, Aberdeenshire

Ballin

Wickham-Jones

2017

JLS

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Abstract:In connection with the recent examination, cataloguing and discussion of approximately 30,000 mainly Mesolithic lithic artefacts from Nethermills Farm at Banchory in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, excavated by the late James Kenworthy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a small number of finds were identified as almost certainly whole or fragmented Late Upper Palaeolithic lithic artefacts, and others as pieces likely to date to this period. The Nethermills flint objects add to a growing list of Late Upper Palaeolithic sites and implements identified across Scotland, including tanged and other points, scrapers, and truncated pieces from Howburn in South Lanarkshire and Kilmelfort Cave on the Scottish west-coast, as well as tanged and other points from the Western and Northern Isles, with eastern Scotland so far having yielded none. On the basis of this case study, the authors suggest an approach for the continued search for Late-Glacial settlers in Scotland in general, as well as for further investigation of the large Nethermills Farm assemblage. The proposed approach suggests that we focus not only on diagnostic tool forms (in particular, tanged and backed points), which have been the focus of Scottish Late Upper Palaeolithic research thus far, but also include other chronologically significant elements, such as diagnostic technological attributes and full operational schemas.

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In Sight of Doggerland: From speculative survey to landscape exploration

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

Influence of Environmental Factors on the Site Selection and Layout of Ancient Military Towns (Zhejiang Region)

Searching for the Scottish Late Upper Palaeolithic: A case study from Nethermills Farm, Aberdeenshire

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