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The iron
Hunter, Fraser
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'Arnish Man' revisited
Cowie, Trevor
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The shale bangle
Hunter, Fraser
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Picture this
McLoughlin, Kevin
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Influence of lithology on hillslope morphology and response to tectonic forcing in the Sierra Nevada of California
[1] Many geomorphic studies assume that bedrock geology is not a first-order control on landscape form in order to isolate drivers of geomorphic change (e.g., climate or tectonics). Yet underlying geology may influence the efficacy of soil production and sediment transport on hillslopes. We performed quantitative analysis of LiDAR digital...Hurst, Hurst, Martin D ; Mudd, Simon M. ; Yoo, Kyungsoo ; Attal, Mikael ; Walcott, Rachel
lithology, landscape evolution, geomorphology, hillslopes, and LiDAR
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Upper Palaeolithic evidence from Kilmelfort Cave, Argyll: a re-evaluation of the lithic assemblage
An assemblage of flint and quartz artefacts recovered during the destruction of Kilmelfort Cave, Argyll, in 1956, was initially attributed to the Mesolithic period. In this paper the assemblage is reanalysed and the conclusion that it represents the residue of human occupation at the site during the Late Glacial Interstadial...Saville, Alan ; Ballin, Torben Bjarke
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Trade incorporation ceremonial chairs
This paper examines in detail a number of 18th- and early 19th-century ceremonial chairs in the context of the material culture and social position of the trade incorporation in the Scottish town.Jackson, Stephen
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Fossil evidence for key innovations in the evolution of insect diversity
Explaining the taxonomic richness of the insects, comprising over half of all described species, is a major challenge in evolutionary biology. Previously, several evolutionary novelties (key innovations) have been posited to contribute to that richness, including the insect bauplan, wings, wing folding and complete metamorphosis, but evidence over their relative...Nicholson, David B ; Ross, Andrew ; Mayhew, P. J.
flight, extinction, Hexapoda, macroevolution, adaptive radiation, and complete metamorphosis
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Host preferences of aphidophagous hoverflies from field distribution of their larvae
The patterns of occurrences among aphid colonies of the larvae of two species of highly polyphagous predatory hoverflies, Episyrphus balteatus (de Geer) and Syrphus ribesii (L.) (Diptera: Syrphidae), were assessed in three areas (Nottingham, Cardiff (UK) and the Czech Republic); in the last two sites, larvae of other syrphid species...Sadeghi, Hussein ; Rotheray, Graham E ; Laska, Pavel ; Gilbert, Francis
Syrphidae., aphids, niche breadth, food specificity, and predatory insects
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Further records of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myanmar)
A new biting midge Archiculicoides andersoni sp. nov. from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber is described and illustrated. An unknown male of Leptoconops myanmaricus Szadziewski, 2004 is described and an undetermined female of the genus Archiaustroconops and Austroconops in the collection of National Museums Scotland is reported. A key for the...Szadziewski, Ryszard ; Ross, Andrew ; Wojciech, Giłka
Burmese amber, Ceratopogonidae, Diptera, New species, and Upper Cretaceous
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Ming: the Golden Empire
McLoughlin, Kevin
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Splitting or lumping? A conservation dilemma exemplified by the critically endangered Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama)
Managers of threatened species often face the dilemma of whether to keep populations separate to conserve local adaptations and minimize the risk of outbreeding, or whether to manage populations jointly to reduce loss of genetic diversity and minimise inbreeding. In this study we examine genetic relatedness and diversity in three...Senn, Helen ; Banfield, Lisa ; Wacher, Tim ; Newby, John ; Rabeil, Thomas …
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Palaeontology: Chinese amber insects bridge the gap
In the study of fossil insects, Chinese amber from Fushun has been largely overlooked. A new study now reveals a highly diverse biota and provides a wealth of new information on the past Asian insect fauna.Ross, Andrew
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Land-bridge calibration of molecular clocks and the post-glacial colonization of Scandinavia by the Eurasian field vole Microtus agrestis
Phylogeography interprets molecular genetic variation in a spatial and temporal context. Molecular clocks are frequently used to calibrate phylogeographic analyses, however there is mounting evidence that molecular rates decay over the relevant timescales. It is therefore essential that an appropriate rate is determined, consistent with the temporal scale of the...Herman, Jeremy S ; McDevitt, Allan D ; Kawalko, Agato ; Jaarolo, Maarit ; Wójcik, J M …
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Detecting the elusive Scottish wildcat Felis silvestris silvestris using camera trapping
Population monitoring is important for conservation management but difficult to achieve for rare, cryptic species. Reliable information about the Critically Endangered Scottish wildcat Felis silvestris silvestris is lacking because of difficulties in morphological and genetic identification, resulting from extensive hybridization with feral domestic cats Felis catus. We carried out camera-trap... -
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Land bridge calibration of rates of molecular evolution in a widespread rodent
There is mounting evidence that rates of molecular evolution decay over recent timescales. Care is needed, therefore, to apply appropriate rates whenever molecular variation is analysed within a temporal context. Given their focus on recent events, intraspecific phylogeographic and demographic studies are particularly vulnerable to erroneous application of rates appropriate...Herman, Jeremy S ; Paupério, J ; Alves, P C ; Searle, Jeremy B
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Mild hobbies and their legacies
This paper looks at the nature and trajectory of Dr John Rae collection in the institutional context of the National Museums Scotland. In a letter of 1878, Rae noted that his hobby was ‘in a very mild way, natural history’. As Jonathan King notes, Rae’s collection is diverse reflecting changing...Lidchi, Henrietta
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An account of Mary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, published by Henry Rowland Brown (1837-1921) in the second edition (1859) of Beauties of Lyme Regis
The publication of the now rare second edition of the guidebook The Beauties of Lyme Regis... by Lyme native Henry Rowland Brown (1837-1921) is dated to 1859. The known link of Brown’s family to Anning’s increases the significance of his book as a source for her, particularly the second edition...Taylor, Michael A ; Torrens, H. S.
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Astronomy in Glasgow
Morrison-Low, A D
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Appendix V. The study and analysis of jet and jet-like materials: methods and results.
Table 1 Summary of all analytical results relating to objects studied during the project Table 2 XRF analysis at the British Museum: results Table 3 XRF analysis at National Museums Scotland: resultsDavis, M ; Hook, D ; Jones, M ; Sheridan, J A ; Troalen, Lore
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Section 6.1 The finds: The pottery
The site of Warren Field in Scotland revealed two unusual and enigmatic features; an alignment of pits and a large, rectangular feature interpreted as a timber building. Excavations confirmed that the timber structure was an early Neolithic building and that the pits had been in use from the Mesolithic. This...Murray, H K ; Murray, J C ; Fraser, Shannon M ; Sheridan, J A
Neolithic period, Scotland, Mesolithic period, Excavations, and Prehistoric Dwellings
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Whose Amber? Changing notions of Amber’s geographical origin
This essay explores the issue of cultural identity and cultural identification with respect to one material: amber. Prior to the discovery of the new world and for quite some time afterwards, the primary source of amber in fifteenth-, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe was Prussia. Few Europeans, however, really understood much...King, Rachel
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An integrated approach to the taxonomic identification of prehistoric shell ornaments
Shell beads appear to have been one of the earliest examples of personal adornments. Marine shells identified far from the shore evidence long-distance transport and imply networks of exchange and negotiation. However, worked beads lose taxonomic clues to identification, and this may be compounded by taphonomic alteration. Consequently, the significance...Demarchi, Beatrice ; O'Connor, Sonia ; Ponzoni, Andre de Lima ; Ponzoni, Raquel de Almeida Rocha ; Sheridan, J A …
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The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the Orkney vole(Microtus arvalis orcadensis)
Cucchi, Thomas ; Barnett, Ross ; Martinkova, Natalia ; Renaud, Sabrina ; Renvoisé, Elodie …
zooarchaeology, tooth shape, Dispersal, island evolution, geometric morphometrics, and evolutionary rate
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An anonymous account of Mary Anning (1799-1847), fossil collector of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, published in All the year round in 1865, and its attribution to Henry Stuart Fagan (1827-1890), schoolmaster, parson and author
An article on the fossil collector Mary Anning (1799-1847), published in All the Year Round in 1865, and much used in Anning literature, is usually ascribed to Charles Dickens. In fact it was by the Reverend Henry Stuart Fagan (1827-1890), grammar school headmaster, Church of England parson, and literary man....Taylor, Michael A ; Torrens, H. S.
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An Upper Llandovery Konservat-Lagerstatte in a depositional context: the Pentland Hills Eurypterid Bed, Midlothian
Re-excavation and detailed logging of the sedimentary sequence which includes the Eurypterid Bed on the Gutterford Burn, Pentland Hills, Midlothian, has clarified the depositional setting of this Silurian Konservat–Lagerstätte. The relative positions of the Gutterford Burn limestones, beds yielding dendroid graptolites and the Eurypterid Bed itself have been identified. Clay...Anderson, Lyall I ; Clarkson, E N K ; Stewart, Sarah E ; Mitchell, D
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Francis Watkins and the Dollond telescope patent controversy
Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his...Gee, Brian
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Goldwork in Ancient Egypt: workshop practices at Qurneh in the 2nd Intermediate Period
Described by Petrie as ‘the largest group of goldwork that had left Egypt’, the jewellery from the intact burial of an adult and child discovered at Qurneh in 1908 is the most important group of gold objects excavated in Egypt dating from the 2nd Intermediate Period (c. 1800–1550 BC). This...Troalen, Lore ; Tate, Jim ; Guerra, Maria Filomena
Recycling, Gold alloys, Polychromy, Solder, Egypt, and Qurneh
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Synoptic revision of the Ordovician brachiopods of the Barr and Lower Ardmillan groups of the Girvan area, Scotland
The generic assignments of some 200 Ordovician brachiopod species in the Barr and Lower Ardmillan (upper Darriwilian–lower Katian) succession, Girvan are reviewed and, where necessary, modified. This key database on the distribution and occurrence of a Laurentian-marginal brachiopod assemblage has featured in many analyses of global biogeography for the period...Candela, Yves ; Harper, David A T
Laurentia, Sandbian, Katian, and Darriwilian
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The fauna and flora of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, UK Volume I: introduction, history and geology
The Insect Limestone has long been known as a source of exquisitely preserved insects and other arthropods. It occurs on the north side of the Isle of Wight and is latest Eocene in age. A summary of the history of the study of the Insect Limestone is given, along with...Ross, Andrew ; Self, Anglea
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Historical textile dyeing with Genista tinctoria L.: a comprehensive study by UPLC-MS/MS analysis
Polyphenolic components from Genista species have been well characterised because of their potential as antioxidants and as therapeutic leads; however, the identification of dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria L.) in historical textiles has been the subject of only limited studies. This paper presents a comprehensive UPLC-PDA MS/MS study of reference and...Troalen, Lore ; Phillips, Ashely S ; Peggie, David A ; Barran, Perdita E ; Hulme, Alison N
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The jet belt slider, Movers Lane
Archaeological investigations carried out during improvements to five key junctions along a stretch of the A13 trunk road through the East London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham have revealed evidence for activity spanning the Mesolithic through to the post-Roman period. Regionally important evidence of Neolithic activity...Sheridan, J A
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Contextualising Kilmartin: building a narrative for developments in western Scotland and beyond, from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age
Although this volume is a tribute to Richard Bradley, its strength lies in the range and depth of papers that provide new information, ideas, and interpretations on many familiar archaeological themes. This volume takes, as its basis, the archaeological themes that Richard has developed through his career and has been...Sheridan, J A