“…Like micropalaeontological evidence, the signal varies from site to site and requires appropriate expertise to interpret the data. Archaeological (Bedford, 2006;McFadgen and Goff, 2007), anthropological (King et al, 2007;Terrell et al, in press), and geomorphological (Goff et al, 2008a;Witter, 2008) proxies continue to be recognised and enhanced, and yet are rarely used.…”