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    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Rapid laminated clastic alluviation associated with increased Little Ice Age flooding co-driven by climate variability and historic land-use in the middle Severn catchment, UK 

      Pears, Ben; Brown, Antony Gavin; Toms, Phillip S; Wood, Jamie; Pennington, Benjamin T; Jones, Richard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-06)
      The analysis of exceptionally well-preserved visible clastic laminations in deep alluvial sediments at Kempsey, Worcestershire (UK), allows a new highresolution analysis of late-Holocene flood-history in the largest UK catchment, as well as local human response. At the sample site over 4.5m of sandy-silt overbank-alluvium accumulated on the floodplain and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ...

    • A sub-centennial-scale optically stimulated luminescence chronostratigraphy and late Holocene flood history from a temperate river confluence 

      Pears, Ben; Brown, Antony; Toms, Philip; Wood, Jamie; Sanderson, David; Jones, Richard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-18)
      River confluences can be metastable and contain valuable geological records of catchment response to decadal- to millennial-scale environmental change. However, in alluvial reaches, flood stratigraphies are particularly hard to date using 14C. In this paper, we use a novel combination of optically stimulated luminescence and multiproxy sedimentological analyses to provide a flood record for the ...

    • Volume estimation of soil stored in agricultural terrace systems: a geomorphometric approach 

      Cucchiaro, Sara; Paliaga, G; Fallu, Daniel; Pears, Ben; Walsh, Kevin; Zhao, P; Van Oost, Kristof; Snape, Lisa; Lang, Andreas; Brown, Antony; Tarolli, Paolo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-06)
      High-resolution topographic (HRT) techniques allow the mapping and characterization of geomorphological features with wide-ranging perspectives at multiple scales. We can exploit geomorphometric information in the study of the most extensive and common landforms that humans have ever produced: agricultural terraces. We can only develop an understanding of these historical landform through in-depth ...