• Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: Morphology, dating and cultural implications 

      Brown, Antony; Fallu, Daniel; Cucchiaro, Sara; Alonso-Eguiluz, Monica; Albert, Rosa Maria; Walsh, Kevin; Pears, Ben R.; Scaife, Rob; Langdon, Catherine; Tarolli, Paolo; Cockroft, David; Snape, Lisa; Lang, Andreas; Ascough, Philippa; Zhao, Pengzhi; Van Oost, Kristof; Waddington, Clive (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-06)
      Terracing is found widely in the Mediterranean and in other hilly and mountainous regions of the world. Yet while archaeological attention to these ‘mundane’ landscape features has grown, they remain understudied, particularly in Northern Europe. Here, the authors present a multidisciplinary study of terraces in the Breamish Valley, Northumberland. The results date their construction to the Early ...
    • Lateglacial and Early Holocene palaeoenvironmental change and human activity at Killerby Quarry, North Yorkshire, UK 

      Hudson, Samuel M; Waddington, Clive; Pears, Ben; Ellis, Natalie; Parker, Luke; Hamilton, Derek; Alsos, Inger Greve; Hughes, Paul; Brown, Antony (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-05)
      The hunter-gatherers that entered the British peninsula after ice-retreat were exploiting a dynamic, rapidly changing environment. Records of vegetation change and human occupation during the Lateglacial to Early Holocene in northern Britain are more commonly found at upland and cave sites. However, recent research highlights many areas of the Swale–Ure Washlands that preserve extensive environmental ...
    • Soil organic carbon stabilization mechanisms and temperature sensitivity in old terraced soils 

      Zhao, Pengzhi; Fallu, Daniel; Cucchiaro, Sara; Tarolli, Paolo; Waddington, Clive; Cockroft, David; Snape, Lisa; Lang, Andreas; Dötterl, Sebastian; Brown, Antony; Van Oost, Kristof (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-08)
      Being the most common human-created landforms, terrace construction has resulted in an extensive perturbation of the land surface. However, our mechanistic understanding of soil organic carbon (SOC) (de-)stabilization mechanisms and the persistence of SOC stored in terraced soils is far from complete. Here we explored the factors controlling SOC stability and the temperature sensitivity (<i>Q</i>< ...