Mid- to late-Holocene vegetational and land-use change in the Hadrian's Wall region: a radiocarbon-dated pollen sequence from Crag Lough, Northumberland, England

Dark, Petra

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2004.11.009

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“…All of these sites were in Scotland or Ireland, but similar evidence for increased catchment erosion at this time is also available from lakes in northern England (e.g. [39]). In most cases there is associated evidence for agricultural activity in the lake catchment, suggesting that accelerated erosion is at least partially a response to continued or increased human activity despite the onset of climatic deterioration.…”

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Climate deterioration and land-use change in the first millennium BC: perspectives from the British palynological record

Dark

2006

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Climate deterioration and land-use change in the first millennium BC: perspectives from the British palynological record

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2006

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…In some parts of northeast England, for example on parts of the east Durham plateau and the North York Moors, the very end of the 3rd millennium cal BC is marked by the onset of major deforestation, primarily for pastoralism but including some limited cereal production (Innes 1999). The first instance of significant clearance activity is also registered in midaltitude Northumberland sites such as Steng Moss, Fellend Moss, and Camp Hill Moss c. 2300-1700 cal BC (Davies & Turner 1979), and also further south in Northumberland at sites such as Butterburn Flow (c. 2290-1890 cal BC; Yeloff et al 2007) and Crag Lough (from c. 2600 cal BC and episodic cereal cultivation from c. 2200 cal BC; Dark 2005). On the eastern flanks of the Cheviots at Broad Moss the pollen record registers an opening up of the forest canopy associated with anthropogenic disturbance during the period between c. 2880-2400 cal BC and c. 2460-1950 cal BC (Passmore & Stevenson 2004).…”

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Towards Synthesis: Research and Discovery in Neolithic North-East England

Waddington

Marshall

Passmore

2011

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The Tweed Valley and its tributaries, and particularly the Milfield Basin in north Northumberland, is an area of strategic significance in the geography of the British Isles and it hosts a rich and varied multi-period archaeological and palaeoenvironmental record. This paper summarises some of the key findings for the Neolithic resulting from a long-term and in-depth landscape research project and provides a new chronological sequence for the Neolithic of the region.Attention is drawn to the discovery of what appears to be a new type of Neolithic structure associated with settlement activity hitherto unrecognised in Britain: post-built timber buildings based on a triangular arrangement of timbers. The paper then turns to a consideration of subsistence and land-use practices and the evidence for cereal agriculture from the immediate outset of the Neolithic in the region. Since 1999 many more radiocarbon measurements have become available for Neolithic activity in the area and, together with those obtained before 1999, have been recalibrated and subjected to Bayesian modelling to produce more precise estimates for Neolithic activity. Important findings include the provision of a more robust estimate for dating the onset of the Neolithic in the region, as well as establishing a chronological framework for the Neolithic–Beaker period ceramic sequence. It also reveals that the current dating available for the henge monuments indicates that this ritual complex most likely dates to the Beaker period and not to the Neolithic proper as they do in some other parts of Britain. Truly ‘Neolithic’ ceremonial monuments in the Milfield Basin remain elusive and few of the potential sites that have so far been identified have yet to be tested by excavation and scientific dating. A clear zoning of rock art is apparent, with hundreds of sites all clustered on the Fellsandstone escarpment, while a variety of Neolithic burial types is attested suggesting the region formed a meeting ground for different cultural influences.

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“…Detailed investigations have demonstrated the ability of palaeoecological analysis to provide environmental information that is comparable with archaeological and historical evidence (e.g., Atherden and Hall, 1999;Cole and Mitchell, 2003;Dark, 2005).…”

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Late Holocene human impact on the vegetation around Mizorogaike Pond in northern Kyoto Basin, Japan: a comparison of pollen and charcoal records with archaeological and historical data

Sasaki

Takahara

2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Mid- to late-Holocene vegetational and land-use change in the Hadrian's Wall region: a radiocarbon-dated pollen sequence from Crag Lough, Northumberland, England

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Climate deterioration and land-use change in the first millennium BC: perspectives from the British palynological record

Climate deterioration and land-use change in the first millennium BC: perspectives from the British palynological record

Towards Synthesis: Research and Discovery in Neolithic North-East England

Late Holocene human impact on the vegetation around Mizorogaike Pond in northern Kyoto Basin, Japan: a comparison of pollen and charcoal records with archaeological and historical data

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