• Ancient DNA, Lipid Biomarkers and Palaeoecological Evidence Reveals Construction and Life on early Medieval Lake Settlements 

      Brown, Antony; van Hardenbroek, Maarten; Fonville, Thierry; Davies, Kimberley L.; Mackay, Helen; Murray, E; Head, Katie; Barratt, Phil; McCormick, F; Ficetola, Fransesco Gentil; Henderson, Andrew; Crone, Anne; Cavers, G; Langdon, Peter G.; Whitehouse, Nicki J.; Pirrie, Duncan; Alsos, Inger Greve; Gielly, L (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-03)
      Direct evidence of ancient human occupation is typically established through archaeological excavation. Excavations are costly and destructive, and practically impossible in some lake and wetland environments. We present here an alternative approach, providing direct evidence from lake sediments using DNA metabarcoding, steroid lipid biomarkers (bile acids) and from traditional environmental analyses. ...
    • Life before Stonehenge: The hunter-gatherer occupation and environment of Blick Mead revealed by sedaDNA, pollen and spores 

      Hudson, Samuel M.; Pears, Ben; Jacques, David; Fonville, Thierry; Hughes, Paul; Alsos, Inger Greve; Snape, Lisa; Lang, Andreas; Brown, Antony (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-27)
      The Neolithic and Bronze Age construction and habitation of the Stonehenge Landscape has been extensively explored in previous research. However, little is known about the scale of pre-Neolithic activity and the extent to which the later monumental complex occupied an ‘empty’ landscape. There has been a long-running debate as to whether the monumental archaeology of Stonehenge was created in an ...
    • New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe 

      Brown, Antony; Fonville, Thierry; van Hardenbroek, Maarten; Cavers, Graeme; Crone, Anne; McCormick, Finbar; Murray, Emily; MacKay, Helen; Whitehouse, Nicki J.; Henderson, Andrew C.G.; Barratt, Phil; Davies, Kim; Langdon, Peter; Alsos, Inger G.; pirrie, Duncan; Head, Katie (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-28)
      Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal ...
    • New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe 

      Brown, Antony; Fonville, Thierry; Van Hardenbroek, Maarten; Cavers, Graeme; Crone, Anne; Mccormick, Finbar; Murray, Emily; Mackay, Helen; Whitehouse, Nicki J.; Henderson, Andrew C.G.; Barratt, Phil; Davies, Kim; Head, Katie; Langdon, Peter; Alsos, Inger Greve; Pirrie, Duncan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-28)
      Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, ...