New models of North West European Holocene palaeogeography and inundation

Sturt, Fraser; Garrow, Duncan; Bradley, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.023

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“…Glacio and hydro-isostasy together controlled the timing and speed of transgression, the positioning of migrating coastlines of specific times and the depths at which sedimentary indicators of former sea levels from along palaeocoastlines are found preserved today (e.g. Lambeck, 1995;Sturt et al, 2013), of relevance to Palaeolithic and Mesolithic submerged archaeology alike.…”

Section: Netherlands Journal Of Geosciences --Geologie En Mijnbouwmentioning

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North Sea palaeogeographical reconstructions for the last 1 Ma

Cohen

Gibbard

Weerts

2014

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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The landscape evolution of the southern North Sea basin is complex and has left a geographically varying record of marine, lacustrine, fluvial and glacial sedimentation and erosion. Quaternary climatic history, which importantly included glaciation, combined with tectonics gave rise to cyclic and non-cyclic changes of sedimentation and erosion patterns. Large-scale landscape reorganisations left strong imprints in the preserved record, and are important for the detail that palaeogeographical reconstructions for the North Sea area can achieve. In the spirit of the North Sea Prehistory Sea. It summarises current stratigraphical and chronological frameworks and provides an overview of sedimentary environments. As we go back in time, the understanding of Quaternary palaeo-environmental evolution in the North Sea basin during the last 1 million years becomes decreasingly accurate, with degree of preservation and accuracy of age control equally important controls. Comparing palaeogeographical reconstructions for the Middle Pleistocene, the last interglacial-glacial cycle and the period following the Last Glacial Maximum illustrates this. More importantly, a series of palaeogeographical maps provide an account of basin-scale landscape change, which provides an overall framework for comparing landscape situations through time.

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Section: Netherlands Journal Of Geosciences --Geologie En Mijnbouwmentioning

confidence: 99%

North Sea palaeogeographical reconstructions for the last 1 Ma

Cohen

Gibbard

Weerts

2014

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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“…As indicated by Figure 9a,b, the gradual post-glacial flooding of what has become known as Doggerland (today's North Sea basin) makes a late Orkney-Scandinavia connection highly unlikely (Spinney 2012;Brooks et al 2011;Sturt et al 2013;Ballin in press). As singleedged points are present in Denmark, although rare, a connection with Scandinavian UP-EM material cultures would most likely have been across the Norwegian Trench, between 'Orcadian' and 'Norwegian' hunter-gatherer groups.…”

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“…a) According to Spinney (2012). b) according to Brooks et al (2011) and Sturt et al (2013). The red lines indicate the coast around 16,000 BCE, and the black lines around 8,000 BCE.…”

Section: Date and Affinity: An Upper Palaeolithic-early Mesolithic 'Nmentioning

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Lost and found twice: Discussion of an early post-glacial single-edged tanged point from Brodgar on Orkney, Scotland

Ballin

Bjerck

2016

JLS

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Abstract:Over the last few decades it has been shown that Scotland was settled -or at least occasionally visited -during the late Upper Palaeolithic period. The finds include diagnostic artefacts of Hamburgian, Federmesser and Ahrensburgian typology, but since Livens' presentation in 1956 of three tanged arrowheads from Scotland, it has also been discussed whether northern Britain was settled or visited from the north-east, by groups belonging to the Scandinavian Fosna-Hensbacka complex. Only one of the three arrowheads presented by Livens appeared to be a Fosna-Hensbacka point, but this piece was lost immediately after the paper in which it was initially summarily described was published. However, this point -originally found at Brodgar on Orkney -has now been refound, and the authors hope that their detailed characterization and discussion of the object's date and affinity will allow the question of a possible Upper Palaeolithic-Early Mesolithic connection across Doggerland to be addressed in a more authoritative manner.

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“…This dry land, referred to as Doggerland, would have allowed roe deer to migrate from central Europe. Doggerland likely existed between 8000 (Shennan et al, 2000;Sturt et al, 2013) and 5800 YBP (van der Molen and van Dijck, 2000) when its loss resulted from warming, unlocking large quantities of water from ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. A channel restricting movement likely developed early in this period.…”

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Influence of Holocene environmental change and anthropogenic impact on the diversity and distribution of roe deer

Baker

Hoelzel

2014

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Extant patterns of population structure and levels of diversity are a consequence of factors that vary in both space and time. Our objective in this study is to investigate a species that has responded to both natural and anthropogenic changes in ways that have shaped modern populations and provide insight into the key processes. The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) is one of the two species of deer native to Britain. During the last glacial maximum (LGM), the British habitat was largely under ice and there was a land bridge to mainland Europe. As the Earth warmed during the early Holocene, the land bridge was lost. Subsequent hunting on the British mainland left the southern region extirpated of roe deer, whereas a refugial population remained in the north. Later reintroductions from Europe led to population expansion, especially in southern United Kingdom. Here, we combine data from ancient and modern DNA to track population dynamics and patterns of connectivity, and test hypotheses about the influence of natural and anthropogenic environmental change. We find that past expansion and divergence events coincided with a warming environment and the subsequent closure of the land bridge between Europe and the United Kingdom. We also find turnover in British roe deer haplotypes between the late-Holocene and modern day that have likely resulted from recent human disturbance activities such as habitat perturbation, overhunting and restocking.

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New models of North West European Holocene palaeogeography and inundation

Cited by 119 publications

References 24 publications

North Sea palaeogeographical reconstructions for the last 1 Ma

North Sea palaeogeographical reconstructions for the last 1 Ma

Lost and found twice: Discussion of an early post-glacial single-edged tanged point from Brodgar on Orkney, Scotland

Influence of Holocene environmental change and anthropogenic impact on the diversity and distribution of roe deer

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