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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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Book chapter
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
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Bronze Age pottery (and a spindle whorl). In M. Carver, J. Barrett, J. Downes and J. Hooper : Pictish byre-houses at Pitcarmick and their landscape: investigations 1993–5
'Pitcarmick-type' houses were identified by the Royal Commission in north-east Perthshire in 1988 and published in their survey of 1990. Long and narrow with rounded ends, they seemed to occur in a sequence between prehistoric roundhouses and medieval and post-medieval dwellings. They were therefore provisionally assigned to the later 1st...Carver, Martin ; Barrett, John ; Downes, Jane ; Hooper, Janet
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Bronze Age tree-trunk coffin graves in Britain
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin and buried with worked flints, a bronze dagger with a whalebone pommel, and a bark vessel...Parker Pearson, Mike ; Sheridan, J A ; Needham, Stuart
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Research report
ScARF Neolithic panel report
Sheridan, J A ; Brophy, Kenny
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The beads. In: M. Johnson ‘Excavation of two Early Bronze Age short cists and a prehistoric pit at Lindsayfield, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire'
Two short cists of Early Bronze Age date, containing prehistoric flint artefacts and shale/cannel coal beads, were discovered during topsoiling operations for the Aberdeen to Lochside Natural Gas Pipeline, to the south of Lindsayfield, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. Cremated human bone from one of the cists was radiocarbon dated to the...Johnson, M ; Sheridan, J A