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Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Maritime Archaeology | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Quaternary Environments | Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant | Geochronology
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Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Mining and Extraction of Aluminium Ores | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability |
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Publications
The Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Introduction
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Quantifying spatial variability in shell midden formation in the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 12-06-2019
Italy: The Archaeology of Palaeoshorelines, Coastal Caves and Seafaring Connections
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Submerged landscapes, marine transgression and underwater shell middens: Comparative analysis of site formation and taphonomy in Europe and North America
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Great Britain: The Intertidal and Underwater Archaeology of Britain’s Submerged Landscapes
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Concepts of Time in Quaternary Prehistory
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Date: 10-1983
The “older fill” of the voidomatis valley, North-west Greece and its relationship to the Palaeolithic archaeology and glacial history of the region
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1990
Time perspectives, palimpsests and the archaeology of time
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2007
Mapping, modelling and predicting prehistoric coastal archaeology in the southern Red Sea using new applications of digital-imaging techniques
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2014
Coastlines, Submerged Landscapes, and Human Evolution: The Red Sea Basin and the Farasan Islands
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-10-2007
Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Coastal Waters off Northern Iberia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-08-2016
DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2016.71
Abstract: Radiocarbon dating of closely associated marine mollusk shells and terrestrial material (mammal bones or charred wood) collected from archaeological contexts in northern Atlantic Iberian coastal areas is used to quantify the marine 14 C reservoir effect (ΔR) for the coastal waters off the Cantabrian coast of northern Iberia. For the first time, ΔR values were reliably determined for these coastal waters and, also for the first time, a ΔR was calculated for the Late Pleistocene in Atlantic Iberia. Pairs of coeval s les of different carbon reservoirs selected from Upper Paleolithic (Late Pleistocene) and Mesolithic (Early Holocene) contexts yielded ΔR weighted mean values of –117±70 14 C yr and –105±21 14 C yr, respectively. These values show oceanographic conditions characterized by a reduced offset between atmospheric and surface water 14 C contents, suggesting a nonexistent or very weak upwelling and some stratification of the water column. Similar oceanographic conditions have been recorded in other areas of Atlantic Iberia during the Holocene, such as off Andalusian and northwestern Galician coasts. Results not only provide useful information on environmental conditions but also a framework to obtain more precise and reliable absolute chronologies for the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in northern Iberia.
Sea-level change, palaeotidal modelling and hominin dispersals: The case of the southern Red Sea
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Continental Shelf Archaeology:
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Date: 08-04-2011
Introduction to Geology, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 05-12-2018
A response to Richards and Schulting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2006
The Legal, Historical and Industrial Context of Underwater Heritage: Introduction
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Time's arrow: the measurement and theory of archaeological time - Tom Higham, Christopher Bronk Ramsey & Clare Owen (ed.). Radiocarbon and Archaeology: Proceedings of the 4th Symposiu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2006
Site exploitation territories and topography: Two case studies from palaeolithic spain
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1983
Palaeolithic Investigations in Epirus: The Results of the First Season's Excavations at Klithi, 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-1984
DOI: 10.1017/S0068245400019833
Abstract: Evidence of Palaeolithic occupation in Epirus discovered in 1962 by the late E. S. Higgs is re-analysed, especially that from Asprochaliko and Kastritsa. The paper also presents the results of the first season's excavations at the rock-shelter of Klithi, which throws light on problems connected with the interpretation of the earlier excavation and the different functions of the two sites. The new excavations demonstrate that Klithi contains a rich Palaeolithic deposit, perhaps dating within the period 20,000 to 12,000 years ago.
The Palaeoenvironment of Some Archaeological Sites in Greece: The Influence of Accumulated Uplift in a Seismically Active Region
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-1985
DOI: 10.1017/S0079497X0000712X
Abstract: Observations made soon after recent major earthquakes in Algeria, California and Japan have shown that repeated motions on buried fault planes in seismically active areas cause incremental folding of the overlying rocks and sediments. The deformation causes characteristic changes to river profiles and is therefore a factor which must be considered when applying techniques of site catchment analysis in areas of tectonic uplift. Here we examine the relationship between tectonic uplift and the palaeoenvironments of palaeolithic sites in North-west Greece, which is one of the most seismically active areas of Europe. Uplift can substantially alter local topography and sediment distributions and therefore undermine the economic viability of human settlements. Paradoxically uplift can also create stable conditions highly favourable to long-term habitation in two ways: by maintaining well-watered sediment traps which provide a climatically insensitive environment by accentuating enclosed topography, which facilitates the control of mobile prey species.
Under the Sea: Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Paleolithic artifact deposits at Wadi Dabsa, Saudi Arabia: A multiscalar geoarchaeological approach to building an interpretative framework
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-01-2019
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21723
Active tectonics and human survival strategies
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 10-10-1994
DOI: 10.1029/94JB00280
Influences of sea level changes and the South Asian Monsoon on southern Red Sea oceanography over the last 30 ka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 29-04-2022
DOI: 10.1017/QUA.2022.16
Abstract: The southern Red Sea is a key region for investigating the effect of climate forces on a semi-closed basin. Detailed micropaleontological (planktic foraminifera) and isotopic (δ 18 Ο, δ 13 C) analyses along with reconstructions of sea surface temperature and salinity on a sediment core from the Farasan banks revealed the imprints of sea level changes and the South Asian Monsoon on the area. Comparison with surrounding records provided insights on the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden (GoA)-Northwestern Arabian Sea (NWArS) water exchange pattern over the last 30 ka. During glacial sea-level lowstand, flow of water from the GoA prevented hypersalinity in the southern Red Sea. Deglacial sea level rise improved water mass exchange between the NWArS, GoA and the entire Red Sea, resulting in relatively similar surface water conditions during the early Holocene when sea-level rise slowed. Thus, sea level change is the major driver of Red Sea δ 18 O variability. Southwest Monsoon (SWM), which was dominant during the late glacial and Early–Middle Holocene, enhanced surface productivity in the southern Red Sea. Northeast Monsoon (NEM) dominated around Heinrich stadial 1, as indicated by a nearly aplanktonic zone that was probably caused by restricted GoA inflow and low productivity.
The Baltic and Scandinavia: Introduction
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes: Introduction and Overview
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Sea level and shoreline reconstructions for the Red Sea: Isostatic and tectonic considerations and implications for hominin migration out of Africa
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Asprochaliko and Kokkinopilos: TL Dating and Reinterpretation of Middle Palaeolithic Sites in Epirus, North-West Greece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-1992
The use of percussion drilling to obtain core samples from rock-shelter deposits
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-1987
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00072987
Abstract: How many excavators of deep palaeolithic sites, especially in caves or rock-shelters, dig with any clear knowledge of how deep the deposits they are working in actually are, or of the ages of the lower portions? Here an alternative is offered to the traditional approach by a ‘deep sounding’ of conventional excavation. A crucial element to the strategy at Klithi is the possibility of carbon-dating, by accelerator, s les of the small size commonly obtained from a drilled core.
Tectonic Geomorphology and Soil Edaphics as Controls on Animal Migrations and Human Dispersal Patterns
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 05-12-2018
Quaternary pollen analysis in the Iberian Peninsula: the value of negative results
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.11141/IA.25.5
The Quality of the Archaeological Record. Charles Perrault. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 280 pp. $35.00, paper. ISBN 9780226630960.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1086/712279
The Multi-disciplinary Search for Underwater Archaeology in the Southern Red Sea
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 05-12-2018
Geological Structure and Late Quaternary Geomorphological Evolution of the Farasan Islands Continental Shelf, South Red Sea, SW Saudi Arabia
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 05-12-2018
Caves, palimpsests and dwelling spaces: examples from the Upper Palaeolithic of south-east Europe
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Concepts of resource exploitation: Continuity and discontinuity in palaeoeconomy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1981
Coastal prehistory and submerged landscapes: Molluscan resources, shell-middens and underwater investigations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
Investigating the Palaeoshorelines and Coastal Archaeology of the Southern Red Sea
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 05-12-2018
The Archaeology of Pleistocene Coastal Environments and Human Dispersals in the Red Sea: Insights from the Farasan Islands
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 05-12-2018
Landscapes of human evolution: models and methods of tectonic geomorphology and the reconstruction of hominin landscapes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2011
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHEVOL.2010.01.004
Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between complex and tectonically active landscapes and patterns of human evolution. We show how active tectonics can produce dynamic landscapes with geomorphological and topographic features that may be critical to long-term patterns of hominin land use, but which are not typically addressed in landscape reconstructions based on existing geological and paleoenvironmental principles. We describe methods of representing topography at a range of scales using measures of roughness based on digital elevation data, and combine the resulting maps with satellite imagery and ground observations to reconstruct features of the wider landscape as they existed at the time of hominin occupation and activity. We apply these methods to sites in South Africa, where relatively stable topography facilitates reconstruction. We demonstrate the presence of previously unrecognized tectonic effects and their implications for the interpretation of hominin habitats and land use. In parts of the East African Rift, reconstruction is more difficult because of dramatic changes since the time of hominin occupation, while fossils are often found in places where activity has now almost ceased. However, we show that original, dynamic landscape features can be assessed by analogy with parts of the Rift that are currently active and indicate how this approach can complement other sources of information to add new insights and pose new questions for future investigation of hominin land use and habitats.
Environments and Landscape Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 03-2015
Underwater archaeology and submerged landscapes in Western Australia
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 06-2018
Abstract: This research aims to explore the submerged landscapes of the Pilbara of western Australia, using predictive archaeological modelling, airborne LiDAR, marine acoustics, coring and er survey. It includes excavation and geophysical investigation of a submerged shell midden in Denmark to establish guidelines for the underwater discovery of such sites elsewhere.
Pollen from Late Pleistocene hyena ( Crocuta crocuta spelaea ) coprolites: An interdisciplinary approach from two Italian sites
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
The Red Sea, Coastal Landscapes, and Hominin Dispersals
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 11-08-2009
A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 12-2017
Introduction: Prehistoric Remains on the Continental Shelf — Why do Sites and Landscapes Survive Inundation?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-05-2017
New approaches for assessing site formation of submerged lithic scatters
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Late Pleistocene and Holocene coastal palaeoeconomies: A reconsideration of the molluscan evidence from northern Spain
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-01-2003
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.10057
A drowned Mesolithic shell midden complex at Hjarnø Vesterhoved, Denmark and its wider significance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Focus: sulphur isotope variation in archaeological marine fauna from northern Europe
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2006
Isotopic composition of Conomurex fasciatus shells as an environmental proxy for the Red Sea
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Late Holocene fishing strategies in southern Africa as seen from Likoaeng, highland Lesotho
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2010
The significance of sea-level change and ancient submerged landscapes in human dispersal and development: A geoarchaeological perspective
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
Coastal hunter-gatherers and social evolution
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2002
Evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo : A landscape approach
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHEVOL.2015.07.002
Abstract: The notion of the physical landscape as an arena of ecological interaction and human evolution is a powerful one, but its implementation at larger geographical and temporal scales is h ered by the challenges of reconstructing physical landscape settings in the geologically active regions where the earliest evidence is concentrated. We argue that the inherently dynamic nature of these unstable landscapes has made them important agents of biological change, creating complex topographies capable of selecting for, stimulating, obstructing or accelerating the latent and emerging properties of the human evolutionary trajectory. We use this approach, drawing on the concepts and methods of active tectonics, to develop a new perspective on the origins and dispersal of the Homo genus. We show how complex topography provides an easy evolutionary pathway to full terrestrialisation in the African context, and would have further equipped members of the genus Homo with a suite of adaptive characteristics that facilitated wide-ranging dispersal across ecological and climatic boundaries into Europe and Asia by following pathways of complex topography. We compare this hypothesis with alternative explanations for hominin dispersal, and evaluate it by mapping the distribution of topographic features at varying scales, and comparing the distribution of early Homo sites with the resulting maps and with other environmental variables.
Insect and plant invasions follow two waves of globalisation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-08-2021
DOI: 10.1111/ELE.13863
Abstract: Globalisation has facilitated the spread of alien species, and some of them have significant impacts on bio ersity and human societies. It is commonly thought that biological invasions have accelerated continuously over the last centuries, following increasing global trade. However, the world experienced two distinct waves of globalisation (~1820–1914, 1960‐present), and it remains unclear whether these two waves have influenced invasion dynamics of many species. To test this, we built a statistical model that accounted for temporal variations in s ling effort. We found that insect and plant invasion rates did not continuously increase over the past centuries but greatly fluctuated following the two globalisation waves. Our findings challenge the idea of a continuous acceleration of alien species introductions and highlight the association between temporal variations in trade openness and biological invasion dynamics. More generally, this emphasises the urgency of better understanding the subtleties of socio‐economic drivers to improve predictions of future invasions.
Beyond consumption and discard: A comparative sedimentological analysis of two shell deposits from Albatross Bay, Australia, and the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
The Evolution of the Red Sea as a Human Habitat During the Quaternary Period
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2015
Amino acid racemization dating of marine shells: A mound of possibilities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2011
Archaeology of the continental shelf: Marine resources, submerged landscapes and underwater archaeology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2008
The recorded evidence of AD 1755 Atlantic tsunami on the Gibraltar coast
Publisher: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Date: 14-10-2011
Breaking the time barrier
Publisher: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Date: 1987
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.32037
A wet strawman: A response to Ward et al.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-09-2022
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21936
A Bronze Age Cist Cemetery at Howick, Northumberland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
Early social evolution: Late Pleistocene life in Tasmania
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1983
DOI: 10.1038/301013A0
Collection and consumption of echinoderms and crustaceans at the Mesolithic shell midden site of El Mazo (northern Iberia): Opportunistic behaviour or social strategy?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
A coastal reservoir of biodiversity for Upper Pleistocene human populations: palaeoecological investigations in Gorham's Cave (Gibraltar) in the context of the Iberian Peninsula
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2008
Africa-Arabia Connections and Geo-Archaeological Exploration in the Southern Red Sea: Preliminary Results and Wider Significance
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Hominin reactions to herbivore distribution in the Lower Palaeolithic of the Southern Levant
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2014
Under the Sea: Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Tectonics and human evolution
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00093613
Abstract: The authors propose a new model for the origins of humans and their ecological adaptation. The evolutionary stimulus lies not in the savannah but in broken, hilly rough country where the early hominins could hunt and hide. Such ‘roughness’, generated by tectonic and volcanic movement characterises not only the African rift valley but probably the whole route of early hominin dispersal.
Something fishy in the Neolithic? A re-evaluation of stable isotope analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic coastal populations
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2004
The Palaeolithic of Klithi in its wider context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-1992
DOI: 10.1017/S0068245400015033
Abstract: Klithi is a rockshelter in the lower reaches of the Voidomatis gorge, near the village of Klithonia in Epirus. Excavations in progress since 1983 have revealed evidence of a late Upper Palaeolithic occupation dated between 16,000 BP and 10,000 BP, with rich microlithic stone tool industries and faunal assemblages dominated by chamois and ibex. The excavations have been accompanied by wider investigations of the local and regional palaeoenvironment and reexamination of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites excavated by Eric Higgs in the 1960s, notably Kokkinopilos, Asprochaliko, and Kastritsa. This paper presents some of the detailed results of the Klithi excavations and sets the results within the wider context of the global issues which inform the study of Palaeolithic archaeology, the Palaeolithic of Greece as a whole, and the regional picture of Palaeolithic settlement in Epirus.
The evolution of seafloor environmental conditions in the southern Red Sea continental shelf during the last 30 ka
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
Marine Transgression, Aboriginal Narratives and the Creation of Yorke Peninsula/Guuranda, South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-03-2019
Living with Sea Level Change and Dynamic Landscapes: An Archaeological Perspective
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2010
Oxygen Isotope Analysis and Seasonality Determinations: Limits and Potential of a New Technique
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-1983
DOI: 10.2307/280460
Abstract: This paper presents a critical assessment of Killingley's approach to the determination of month of collection of marine molluscs by prehistoric people. The basis of the method is careful oxygen isotope measurements made in successive growth increments in the shells. We have analyzed specimens of Monodonta and Patella collected live on the coast of northern Spain, in conjunction with seasonality studies on molluscs from prehistoric sites in the neighborhood. These studies confirm the necessity of making careful analyses of each species under consideration. Given the significance both of interspecies differences and of climatic variability on timescales from a year upwards (particularly important in Killingley's area), we conclude that his apparent accuracy of ± a month is illusory.
Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 07-2020
The role of molluscs in coastal economies: The results of midden analysis in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1975
The coastal shelf of the Mediterranean and beyond: Corridor and refugium for human populations in the Pleistocene
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2008
Shell oxygen isotope values and sclerochronology of the limpet Patella vulgata Linnaeus 1758 from northern Iberia: Implications for the reconstruction of past seawater temperatures
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Beyond the drip-line: a high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2011
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00062025
Abstract: The activities of hunter-gatherers are often captured in rockshelters, but here the authors present a study of a riverside settlement outside one, with a rich sequence from 1300 BC to AD 800. Thanks to frequent flooding, periods of occupation were sealed and could be examined in situ . The phytolith and faunal record, especially fish, chronicle changing climate and patterns of subsistence, emphasising that the story here is no predictable one-way journey from hunter-gatherer to farmer. Right up to the period of the famous nineteenth-century rock paintings in the surrounding Maloti-Drakensberg region, adaptation was dynamic and historically contingent.
Shell Mounds, Shell Middens, and Raised Beaches in the Cape York Peninsula
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-05-2010
Correction: Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 15-06-2023
4200 New Shell Mound Sites in the Southern Red Sea
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.11141/IA.37.2
Human bipedalism and the importance of terrestriality
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 26-08-2014
Stone artefacts on the seabed at a submerged freshwater spring confirm a drowned cultural landscape in Murujuga, Western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
New Developments in Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology: An Overview
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2014
Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-07-2015
DOI: 10.1002/EVAN.21455
Marine abundance and its prehistoric past in the Baltic
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-05-2022
Edaphic and Topographic Constraints on Exploitation of the Central Kenya Rift by Large Mammals and Early Hominins
Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Date: 12-07-2016
DOI: 10.5334/OQ.21
Asprochaliko and Kastritsa: Further Investigations of Palaeolithic Settlement and Economy in Epirus (North-West Greece)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 1983
DOI: 10.1017/S0079497X00007945
Abstract: This paper sets out the detailed stratigraphy and chronology of the palaeolithic rockshelters of Asprochaliko and Kastritsa excavated in the 1960s, the methods used by the original investigators in excavation and classification of the finds, and the general characteristics of the stone industries and fauna. Methods of estimating the density of finds are discussed. Estimates of time density — the number of specimens accumulated per unit area per unit time — are applied to the upper palaeolithic deposits at both sites and reveal major differences in the rate of discard of material, indicating more intensive occupation at Kastritsa. Inter-site differences in the proportion of faunal species and artefact types are analysed in the light of the time-density evidence, and the various factors that could have influenced the pattern of inter-site variation are discussed.
10. Historical Ecology Of The North Sea Basin An Archaeological Perspective And Some Problems Of Methodology
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 31-12-2019
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Submerged Landscapes of the European Continental Shelf
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-05-2017
Landscapes and their relation to hominin habitats: Case studies from Australopithecus sites in eastern and southern Africa
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2011
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHEVOL.2010.10.001
Abstract: We examine the links between geomorphological processes, specific landscape features, surface water drainage, and the creation of suitable habitats for hominins. The existence of mosaic (i.e., heterogeneous) habitats within hominin site landscape reconstructions is typically explained using models of the riverine and gallery forest settings, or the pan or lake setting. We propose a different model: the Tectonic Landscape Model (TLM), where tectonic faulting and volcanism disrupts existing pan or river settings at small-scales (∼10-25 km). Our model encompasses the interpretation of the landscape features, the role of tectonics in creating these landscapes, and the implications for hominins. In particular, the model explains the underlying mechanism for the creation and maintenance of heterogeneous habitats in regions of active tectonics. We illustrate how areas with faulting and disturbed drainage patterns would have been attractive habitats for hominins, such as Australopithecus, and other fauna. Wetland areas are an important characteristic of surface water disturbance by fault activity therefore we examine the tectonically-controlled Okavango Delta (Botswana) and the Nylsvley wetland (South Africa) as modern ex les of how tectonics in a riverine setting significantly enhance the faunal and floral bio ersity. While tectonic landscapes may not have been the only type of attractive habitats to hominins, we propose a suite of landscape, faunal, and floral indicators, which when recovered together suggest that site environments may have been influenced by tectonic and/or volcanic activity while hominins were present. For the fossil sites, we interpret the faulting and landscapes around australopithecine-bearing sites of the Middle Awash (Ethiopia) and Makapansgat, Taung, and Sterkfontein (South Africa) to illustrate these relationships between landscape features and surface water bodies. Exploitation of tectonically active landscapes may explain why the paleoenvironmental signals, anatomy, diets, as well as the fauna associated with Australopithecus appear largely heterogeneous through time and space. This hypothesis is discussed in light of potential preservation and time-averaging effects which may affect patterns visible in the fossil record. The model, however, offers insight into the landscape processes of how such habitats are formed. The landscape features and range of habitat conditions, specifically the wetter, down-dropped plains and drier, uplifted flanks persist in close proximity for as long as the fault motion continues. The Tectonic Landscape Model provides an alternative explanation of why mixed habitats may be represented at certain sites over longer timescales.
Europe's Lost World: the Rediscovery of Doggerland, by Vince Gaffney, Simon Fitch & David Smith, 2009. York: Council for British Archaeology. (CBA Research Report 160.); ISBN 978-1-902771-77-9, pa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 27-01-2010
Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2016
Complex topography and human evolution: the missing link
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00048985
Abstract: Why did humans walk upright? Previous models based on adaptations to forest or savannah are challenged here in favour of physical incentives presented by steep rugged terrain—the kind of tectonically varied landscape that has produced early hominin remains. “Scrambler man” pursued his prey up hill and down dale and in so doing became that agile, sprinting, enduring, grasping, jumping two-legged athlete that we know today.
MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC DEMONSTRATION OF THE PROCESSING OF AQUATIC PRODUCTS IN NORTHERN EUROPEAN PREHISTORIC POTTERY*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2007
Temporal variability in shell mound formation at Albatross Bay, northern Australia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 30-08-2017
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS | Postglacial Adaptations
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2007
Blue Arabia: Palaeolithic and underwater survey in SW Saudi Arabia and the role of coasts in Pleistocene dispersals
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
The origin of Anadara shell mounds at Weipa, North Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-1994
Spatial Patterning and Site Occupation at Likoaeng, an Open‐Air Hunter‐Gatherer Campsite in the Lesotho Highlands, Southern Africa
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf: An Introduction
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS | Postglacial Adaptations
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2013
Underwater Shell Middens: Excavation and Remote Sensing of a Submerged Mesolithic site at Hjarnø, Denmark
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-06-2020
A chrono-cultural reassessment of the levels VI–XIV from El Cuco rock-shelter: A new sequence for the Late Middle Paleolithic in the Cantabrian region (northern Iberia)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Dynamic shorelines and submerged topography: the neglected variables
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00049565
Abstract: Atholl Anderson's comment (above) on the recent finds from Jerimalai draws attention to the dangers of over-interpreting the wider significance of marine resources present in Pleistocene coastal sites without careful evaluation of at least three variables: (1) the accurate identification of the species represented and hence of their behaviour and accessibility to capture (2) the actual quantities and rates of accumulation of the marine food remains and (3) local ecological and oceanographic conditions. To these I would add a fourth variable: the bathymetry and submerged topography of the marine environment adjacent to the sites in question—the physical structure of what one might call the 'offshore catchment'—and changes resulting from relative sea level variation (including eustatic and isostatic/tectonic effects).
The Balkans in prehistory: the Palaeolithic archaeology of Greece and adjacent areas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-1995
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00064267
Abstract: Thirty years ago, the finding of a single hand-axe in Greece was remarkable enough to have its own note in ANTIQUITY. A recent conference is occasion to review the regional picture, now broad as well as deep enough for patterns to emerge which look more like early prehistoric realities than the chance consequence of where the pioneers have been looking.
The integrated cultural landscape of North Gidley Island: Coastal, intertidal and nearshore archaeology in Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-08-2021
A Strategy for Assessing Continuity in Terrestrial and Maritime Landscapes from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), North West Shelf, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2020
Dynamic landscapes and human dispersal patterns: tectonics, coastlines, and the reconstruction of human habitats
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2011
Geology and archaeology: submerged landscapes of the continental shelf: an introduction
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 15-09-2015
DOI: 10.1144/SP411.13
Active tectonics and land-use strategies: a Palaeolithic example from northwest Greece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-1993
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00045361
Abstract: Tectonic movements – continuously re-moulding the surface of the earth over the inexorable activity of underlying plate motions – are rarely taken into account when assessing landscape change, except as an exotic hazard to human life or a temporary disruption in longer-term trends. Active tectonics also create and sustain landscapes that can be beneficial to human survival. The tectonic history of northwest Greece shows Palaeolithic sites located to take advantage of tectonically created features at both local and regional scales.
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