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The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain (2024)
Journal Article

Along the lower course of the Rioni and several minor rivers, more than 70 settlement mounds (local name: Dikhagudzuba) have been identified by field surveys and remote sensing techniques. They give evidence of a formerly densely populated landscape... Read More about The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain.

The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI (2020)
Journal Article

The H1N1 “Spanish influenza” pandemic of 1918–1919 caused the highest known number of deaths recorded for a single pandemic in human history. Several theories have been offered to explain the virulence and spread of the disease, but the environmental... Read More about The Impact of a Six‐Year Climate Anomaly on the “Spanish Flu” Pandemic and WWI.

From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’ (2020)
Journal Article

Nottingham, as one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, a key strategic pre-Conquest borough, and the most important royal governmental hub in central England by the time of the Angevin kings, from Henry II to John (1154–1216), is a city with a fasci... Read More about From 'House of Caves' to nexus of central England: Nottingham, c. AD 650-1250 - Future Research Directions’.

Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050 (2020)
Book Chapter

This contribution uses material culture, textual sources and associated social practices to explore how cycles of time and memory influenced the development of coastal societies and their expressions of identity in northwest Europe, between c. 500 an... Read More about Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050.

Alpine ice and the annual political economy of the Angevin Empire, from the death of Thomas Becket to Magna Carta, c. AD 1170–1216 (2020)
Journal Article

High-resolution analysis of the ice core from Colle Gnifetti, Switzerland, allows yearly and sub-annual measurement of pollution for the period of highest lead production in the European Middle Ages, c. AD 1170–1220. Here, the authors use atmospheric... Read More about Alpine ice and the annual political economy of the Angevin Empire, from the death of Thomas Becket to Magna Carta, c. AD 1170–1216.

A 2000 Year Saharan Dust Event Proxy Record from an Ice Core in the European Alps (2019)
Journal Article

Dust events originating from the Saharan desert have far reaching environmental impacts but the causal mechanism of magnitude and occurrence of Saharan dust events (SDEs) during the pre?instrumental era requires further research, particularly as a po... Read More about A 2000 Year Saharan Dust Event Proxy Record from an Ice Core in the European Alps.

Alpine ice-core evidence for the transformation of the European monetary system, AD 640-670 (2018)
Journal Article

© Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018. The seventh-century AD switch from gold to silver currencies transformed the socio-economic landscape of North-west Europe. The source of silver, however, has proven elusive. Recent research, integrating ice-core d... Read More about Alpine ice-core evidence for the transformation of the European monetary system, AD 640-670.

Co-opetition and urban worlds, c. AD 1050-1150: archaeological and textual case studies from northwestern Europe (2018)
Book Chapter

This article explores the complex combinations of collaborative and competitive social relations that catalyzed the development of towns and urban societies in northwestern Europe, during the century between c. AD 1050 and 1150. It aims to evaluate t... Read More about Co-opetition and urban worlds, c. AD 1050-1150: archaeological and textual case studies from northwestern Europe.

The role of historical context in understanding past climate, pollution and health data in trans-disciplinary studies: reply to comments on More et al. 2017 (2018)
Journal Article

Understanding the context from which evidence emerges is of paramount importance in reaching robust conclusions in scientific inquiries. This is as true of the present as it is of the past. In a trans‐disciplinary study such as More et al. (2017, htt... Read More about The role of historical context in understanding past climate, pollution and health data in trans-disciplinary studies: reply to comments on More et al. 2017.

Next generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: insights from the Black Death (2017)
Journal Article

Current policies to reduce lead pollution in the air are based on the assumption that pre-industrial levels of lead in the air were negligible, safe or non-existent. This trans-disciplinary article shows that this is not the case, using ‘next-generat... Read More about Next generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: insights from the Black Death.

The Dynamics of Portable Wealth, Social Status and Competition in the Ports, Coastal Zones and River Corridors of Northwest Europe, c. AD 650-1100 (2017)
Book Chapter

Possession of portable wealth among the connected communities of ports, coasts and river valleys in early medieval northwest Europe reflected a complex web of social relationships of different kinds. It reflected competition in some circumstances, an... Read More about The Dynamics of Portable Wealth, Social Status and Competition in the Ports, Coastal Zones and River Corridors of Northwest Europe, c. AD 650-1100.

Specialist artisans and commodity producers as social actors in early medieval Britain, c. AD 500-1066 (2016)
Book Chapter

This contribution explores the many questions that need to be asked in regard to how specialist craft-working was organised in early medieval Britain, and how specialist artisans and traders exercised initiative as social actors. A particular emphasi... Read More about Specialist artisans and commodity producers as social actors in early medieval Britain, c. AD 500-1066.

Travel, transport and communication to and from Ireland, c. AD 400-1100: an archaeological perspective (2016)
Book Chapter

In this paper we examine the extensive new archaeological evidence for the early Irish medieval economy, trade and exchange, evidence which has accrued during the explosion of developer-led archaeological research in Ireland in recent decades and has... Read More about Travel, transport and communication to and from Ireland, c. AD 400-1100: an archaeological perspective.

From hamlets to central places: integrated survey and excavation strategies for the social analysis of settlements in northern Europe, c. AD 400-1100 (2014)
Book Chapter

This article explores a range of archaeological approaches to the social analysis of rural settlements in northern Europe, dating predominantly from the first millennium AD, through the intensive use of superimposed archaeological survey and targeted... Read More about From hamlets to central places: integrated survey and excavation strategies for the social analysis of settlements in northern Europe, c. AD 400-1100.

Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology (2013)
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Christopher Loveluck's study explores the transformation of Northwest Europe (primarily Britain, France and Belgium) from the era of the first post-Roman 'European Union' under the Carolingian Frankish kings to the so-called 'feudal' age, between c.A... Read More about Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600-1150: a comparative archaeology.