Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland
Palaeoenvironmental analyses of an exposed sequence of interbedded sand and peat overlying glacial till on Stronsay, Orkney, has revealed evidence of dynamic landscape change during the Holocene. AMS radiocarbon and OSL dating are used to identify periods of minerogenic and organic sediment accumula...
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/17791 2023-05-15T17:33:25+02:00 Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland Tisdall, Eileen McCulloch, Robert Sanderson, David Simpson, Ian Woodward, Naomi Orkney College Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Glasgow NS Management and Support University of Aberdeen orcid:0000-0002-9902-4461 orcid:0000-0001-5542-3703 orcid:0000-0003-2447-7877 2013-10 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/17791 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.016 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/17791/1/Tisdall%20et%20al%20living%20with%20sand%20QI%202013.pdf en eng Elsevier Tisdall E, McCulloch R, Sanderson D, Simpson I & Woodward N (2013) Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland. Quaternary International, 308-309, pp. 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.016 Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of Mesolithic Orkney evidence from Stronsay 0 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/17791 doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.016 WOS:000325306800021 2-s2.0-84884355104 669264 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/17791/1/Tisdall%20et%20al%20living%20with%20sand%20QI%202013.pdf The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository. Please use the Request a Copy feature at the foot of the Repository record to request a copy directly from the author. You can only request a copy if you wish to use this work for your own research or private study. http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserved 3000-01-01 [Tisdall et al living with sand QI 2013.pdf] The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository therefore there is an embargo on the full text of the work. Palaeo-environments Reconstructing Past Environments Environmental Change Environmental Geography Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2013 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.016 2022-06-13T18:43:51Z Palaeoenvironmental analyses of an exposed sequence of interbedded sand and peat overlying glacial till on Stronsay, Orkney, has revealed evidence of dynamic landscape change during the Holocene. AMS radiocarbon and OSL dating are used to identify periods of minerogenic and organic sediment accumulation. A lengthy period of stability during the early Holocene is inferred from the development of a deeply weathered till surface with pollen and soil micromorphological evidence suggesting prolonged woodland cover. During the mid to late Holocene phases of wind-blown sand that inundated the landscape are defined from the sedimentary record and are interpreted as periods of increased storminess between c. 3400-3100 cal. BP and c. 2800-2260 cal. BP. The palaeoecological evidence points to continuity of human exploitation, despite the phases of increased storminess during the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. Rising sea levels and a severe storm event at c. 650 years BP inundated the site with massive sands and truncated the record. These storm events recorded on Stronsay are part of a regionally synchronous record for periods of increased storminess across the North Atlantic region during the Holocene. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Quaternary International 308-309 205 215 |
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Palaeoenvironmental analyses of an exposed sequence of interbedded sand and peat overlying glacial till on Stronsay, Orkney, has revealed evidence of dynamic landscape change during the Holocene. AMS radiocarbon and OSL dating are used to identify periods of minerogenic and organic sediment accumulation. A lengthy period of stability during the early Holocene is inferred from the development of a deeply weathered till surface with pollen and soil micromorphological evidence suggesting prolonged woodland cover. During the mid to late Holocene phases of wind-blown sand that inundated the landscape are defined from the sedimentary record and are interpreted as periods of increased storminess between c. 3400-3100 cal. BP and c. 2800-2260 cal. BP. The palaeoecological evidence points to continuity of human exploitation, despite the phases of increased storminess during the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. Rising sea levels and a severe storm event at c. 650 years BP inundated the site with massive sands and truncated the record. These storm events recorded on Stronsay are part of a regionally synchronous record for periods of increased storminess across the North Atlantic region during the Holocene. |
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Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland |
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Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland |
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Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland |
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Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland |
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Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland |
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living with sand: a record of landscape change and storminess during the bronze and iron ages orkney, scotland |
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Tisdall E, McCulloch R, Sanderson D, Simpson I & Woodward N (2013) Living with sand: A record of landscape change and storminess during the Bronze and Iron Ages Orkney, Scotland. Quaternary International, 308-309, pp. 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.016 Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of Mesolithic Orkney evidence from Stronsay 0 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/17791 doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.016 WOS:000325306800021 2-s2.0-84884355104 669264 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/17791/1/Tisdall%20et%20al%20living%20with%20sand%20QI%202013.pdf |
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