All Outputs (5)

Bear journeys in early modern England (2025)
Journal Article
Davies, C., Bloxam, A., O’Regan, H., Charlton, S., Lewis, L., & Wright, E. (2025). Bear journeys in early modern England. Seventeenth Century, 40(2), 203-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2025.2461368

This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record.... Read More about Bear journeys in early modern England.

Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data (2024)
Journal Article
Crema, E. R., Bloxam, A., Stevens, C. J., & Vander Linden, M. (2024). Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data. Journal of Archaeological Science, 165, Article 105962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.105962

Archaeological data provide a potential to investigate the diffusion of technological and cultural traits. However, much of this research agenda currently needs more formal quantitative methods to address small sample sizes and chronological uncertai... Read More about Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data.

Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain: Investigating Narratives of Change (2023)
Journal Article
Comeau, R., Seaman, A., & Bloxam, A. (2023). Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain: Investigating Narratives of Change. Medieval Archaeology, 67(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2023.2204655

RECENTLY COMPILED DATASETS for hillforts and corn-drying kilns in the west of Britain, when subject to chronological analysis using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE), show a sharp and lasting fall-off in activity in the later 6th and 7th centuries. Thi... Read More about Plague, Climate and Faith in Early Medieval Western Britain: Investigating Narratives of Change.

Funerary Diversity and Cultural Continuity: The British Beaker Phenomenon Beyond the Stereotype (2022)
Journal Article
Bloxam, A., & Parker Pearson, M. (2022). Funerary Diversity and Cultural Continuity: The British Beaker Phenomenon Beyond the Stereotype. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 88, 261-284. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2022.2

The Beaker phenomenon in Britain is typically represented by a particular form of pottery and its inclusion in graves with flexed or crouched inhumations referred to as Beaker burials. Analysis of the full range of burial evidence, however, reveals a... Read More about Funerary Diversity and Cultural Continuity: The British Beaker Phenomenon Beyond the Stereotype.

Radiocarbon approaches for mapping technological change: The spread of the potter’s wheel in the Iberian Peninsula, 1000–0 BCE (2021)
Journal Article
de Groot, B., & Bloxam, A. (2022). Radiocarbon approaches for mapping technological change: The spread of the potter’s wheel in the Iberian Peninsula, 1000–0 BCE. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41, Article 103288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103288

This paper discusses a quantitative methodology based on the summed probability of radiocarbon dates to reveal complexities and asymmetries in the adoption of technological innovations. By focusing on the spread of the potter’s wheel in the Iberian P... Read More about Radiocarbon approaches for mapping technological change: The spread of the potter’s wheel in the Iberian Peninsula, 1000–0 BCE.