Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses

Tipping, Richard; Bunting, M. Jane; Davies, Althea; Murray, Humphrey; Fraser, Shannon; McCulloch, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2008.07.016

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“…These patterns of environmental evidence align well with other evidence for past environments and human use of such natural resources in the region (Vasari & Vasari 1968;Clark & Edwards 2004;Edwards 2004;Tipping et al 2009). The dominance of oak charcoal probably reflects its presence at and around the site.…”

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Archaeological excavations at Nethermills Farm, Deeside, 1978–81

Wickham-Jones¹,

Kenworthy²,

Gould³

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Section: Environmental Remainssupporting

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Archaeological excavations at Nethermills Farm, Deeside, 1978–81

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Kenworthy²,

Gould³

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“…Both types were probably used as the locations of communal activities, which sometimes included deposition of large quantities of cleaned cereal grains within post-holes (Fairweather and Ralston, 1993). As midden material and domestic artefacts are absent, it is increasingly unlikely 'timber halls' were households, though organic materials would rarely survive in the acidic soils (Barclay, 1996;Bradley, 2007;Brophy, 2006Brophy, , 2007Fairweather and Ralston, 1993;Noble, 2006;Sheridan, 2007;Tipping et al, 2009). It is possible the grain could have been brought on-site by people living close by (Tipping et al, 2009).…”

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“…As midden material and domestic artefacts are absent, it is increasingly unlikely 'timber halls' were households, though organic materials would rarely survive in the acidic soils (Barclay, 1996;Bradley, 2007;Brophy, 2006Brophy, , 2007Fairweather and Ralston, 1993;Noble, 2006;Sheridan, 2007;Tipping et al, 2009). It is possible the grain could have been brought on-site by people living close by (Tipping et al, 2009). The models should include the timber halls because they produced the earliest direct evidence of mainland Scottish agricultural material, and their communal functions indicate they were significant locations in areas attractive for settlement or occupation activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Drawing on established techniques for predicting archaeological sites using quantifiable data, a GIS is used to extract environmental variables commonly used in archaeological predictive modelling from input sites and non-site locations; the variables include elevation, slope, aspect, local relief, distance to the nearest source of water, costedistance to the nearest source of water, and viewshed (Judge and Sebastian, 1988;Kamermans et al, 2009;Kohler, 1988;Kvamme, 1990Kvamme, , 2006Legg and Taylor, 2006;Maschner and Stein, 1995;Mehrer and Wescott, 2006;Parker, 1985;Rua, 2009;van Leusen et al, 2005;van Leusen and Kamermans, 2005;Verhagen, 2007;Westcott and Brandon, 2000;Woodman, 2000a;Woodman and Woodward, 2002) ( Table 1).…”

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The use of predictive modelling to target Neolithic settlement and occupation activity in mainland Scotland

Graves

2011

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“…In archaeological contexts, the approach allows different archaeologically derived hypotheses about landscape structure to be tested against extant pollen records (e.g. Caseldine et al, 2007;Tipping et al, 2009).…”

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Palynological perspectives on vegetation survey: a critical step for model-based reconstruction of Quaternary land cover

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Farrell

Broström

et al. 2013

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Pollen dispersal and deposition models Pollen surface sample PrenticeeSugita model of pollen dispersal and deposition Remote sensing data Sutton model Vegetation data processing a b s t r a c t 1. Quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation distribution and abundance from sedimentary pollen records provides an important baseline for understanding long term ecosystem dynamics and for the calibration of earth system process models such as regional-scale climate models, widely used to predict future environmental change. Most current approaches assume that the amount of pollen produced by each vegetation type, usually expressed as a relative pollen productivity term, is constant in space and time.2. Estimates of relative pollen productivity can be extracted from extended R-value analysis (Parsons and Prentice, 1981) using comparisons between pollen assemblages deposited into sedimentary contexts, such as moss polsters, and measurements of the present day vegetation cover around the sampled location. Vegetation survey method has been shown to have a profound effect on estimates of model parameters (Bunting and Hjelle, 2010), therefore a standard method is an essential pre-requisite for testing some of the key assumptions of pollen-based reconstruction of past vegetation; such as the assumption that relative pollen productivity is effectively constant in space and time within a region or biome.3. This paper systematically reviews the assumptions and methodology underlying current models of pollen dispersal and deposition, and thereby identifies the key characteristics of an effective vegetation survey method for estimating relative pollen productivity in a range of landscape contexts.4. It then presents the methodology used in a current research project, developed during a practitioner workshop. The method selected is pragmatic, designed to be replicable by different research groups, usable in a wide range of habitats, and requiring minimum effort to collect adequate data for model calibration rather than representing some ideal or required approach. Using this common methodology will allow project members to collect multiple measurements of relative pollen productivity for major plant taxa from several northern European locations in order to test the assumption of uniformity of these values within the climatic range of the main taxa recorded in pollen records from the region.

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Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses

Cited by 48 publications

References 40 publications

Archaeological excavations at Nethermills Farm, Deeside, 1978–81

Archaeological excavations at Nethermills Farm, Deeside, 1978–81

The use of predictive modelling to target Neolithic settlement and occupation activity in mainland Scotland

Palynological perspectives on vegetation survey: a critical step for model-based reconstruction of Quaternary land cover

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