Rupert A Housley
Biographic Data
| ID | 244994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rupert A Housley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rupert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Housley |
| SIGNATURE | HOUSLEY R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 731 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Calling Time on Oronsay
For over 120 years, the shell middens of western Scotland and the series of open-air sites on Oronsay have been the focus of debate in European Mesolithic studies. This paper challenges the significance of Oronsay in light of results from the geophysical survey and test-excavation of a new limpet and periwinkle shell midden dated to the late 5th or start of the 4th millennium cal bc at Port Lobh, Colonsay that offers fresh evidence to re-evaluate…
Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards
Marked changes in human dispersal and development during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition have been attributed to massive volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using records of volcanic ash layers of the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption dated to ca. 40,000 y ago (40 ka B.P.). The distribution of the Campanian Ignimbrite has been enhanced by the discovery of cryptotephra deposits (volcanic ash layers t…
Multiproxy Analyses of Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironment of the Late Palaeolithic Grabow Floodplain Site, Northern Germany
Changing river courses and fluctuations of the water table were some of the most fundamental environmental changes that humans faced during the Late Glacial, particularly as these changes affected areas intensively used for settlement and resource exploitation. Unfortunately, only a few stratigraphies have been documented in the North European plain that show the interaction between river development, vegetation history, and occupation by Late Pa…
Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure on The Peak, near Birdlip, Gloucestershire
Surveys and excavations in 1980–1 confirmed Peak Camp as a Neolithic enclosure on a flat promontory of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the Severn Valley just 1 km south of Crickley Hill. Although heavily eroded by quarrying the site can be reconstructed as having two concentric arcs of boundary earthworks forming an oval plan which was probably open to the north where a steep natural slope defined the edge of the site. A section through the o…
Discussion 5
Late Holocene vegetation and palaeoenvironmental history of the Dunadd area, Argyll, Scotland
Excavation of an Iron Age, Early Historic and medieval settlement and metalworking site at Eilean Olabhat, North Uist
The promontory site of Eilean Olabhat, North Uist was excavated between 1986 and 1990 as part ofthe Loch Olabhat Research Project. It was shown to be a complex enclosed settlement and industrialsite with several distinct episodes of occupation. The earliest remains comprise a small Iron Agebuilding dating to the middle centuries of the first millennium BC, which was modified on severaloccasions prior to its abandonment. Much later, the Early Hist…
An Ecological Context for the Post-Roman Archaeology of the Somerset Moors (South West England, UK)
In contrast to the widely reported research into the wetland prehistory of the Somerset Moors and Levels, the wetland archaeology for the historic periods of this region of south west England has always been less well known, being reliant on mostly non-wetland sources of information, e.g. documentary evidence, cartographic studies and inferences made from dry land archaeological sites. This study attempts to correct this imbalance by outlining pa…
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of coastal aeolian sand accumulation in Sanday, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of sand has been used to identify periods of enhanced aeolian activity at two coastal archaeological sites in Orkney that coincide with periods of Holocene climatic deterioration recorded elsewhere in both Scotland and W Europe. Areas of Tofts Ness, Sanday were settled from the Neolithic, abandoned in the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age, reoccupied and permanently abandoned in the Iron Age. Sand laye…
That Sinking Feeling
It is well known that Venice has always had an intimate association with the sea. Despite the historical interest the origins of the city have, until relatively recently, remained cloaked in obscurity. Until the mid-1980s Venice remained one of the few major historical cities in Europe where urban archaeology had yet to uncover significant information. Over the last two decades the situation has changed as shown by fifteen sites with early levels…
From Hiroshima to the Iceman
Power in context
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Reply to Blockley, Donahue & Pollard
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Radiocarbon, Calibration, and the Chronology of the Late Minoan IB Phase
Sea-level change and the archaeology of early Venice
The threatened city of Venice, plauged by rising sea levels and subsiding ground, has been the subject of recent archaeological investigation. Studies of buried archaeological sites yield new evidence on trends in sea-level change for the Lagoon of Venice and provide important insight into how early habitation responded to such change
The Lowland Maya “Protoclassic
The term “Protoclassic,” employed regularly but inexplicitly in the literature of lowland Maya archaeology, has become increasingly nebulous and ambiguous in both meaning and usage. This paper reviews the history and use of the term and presents a formal redefinition of the Protoclassic as a ceramic stage based explicitly and exclusively on ceramic criteria. Some suggestions regarding future use of the term also are offered. The paper further add…
Radiocarbon dating of a recent high latitude peat profile
The value of both high-precision (HP) and AMS 14 C determinations in the fine-resolution dating of recent peat at Stor Åmyrân, near Umeå, northern Sweden has been explored. A detailed chronology of accumu lation, based on 14 C, an occurrence of the Askja AD 1875 tephra and 241 Am measurements has been derived for the last 700 years. This shows significant changes in the mass balance of the peat profile, with minimum rates of net carbon sequestrat…
Radiocarbon evidence for the Lateglacial Human Recolonisation of Northern Europe
This paper examines, through the use of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry dating, the database of Lateglacial cultures involved in the recolonisation of northern Europe. The aim is not only to determine the timing of that recolonisation, but also to propose a general model of hunter-gatherer colonisation at a sub-continental scale. The question is addressed of how long the period of abandonment of northern Europe during the Würm/Weichsel glaciation m…
The Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Layers in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
AMS Dates from Formozov's Excavations at Starosel'e in the Crimea
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Coygan Cave, Laugharne, South Wales, a Mousterian Site and Hyaena Den
Excavation by Charles McBurney and John Clegg during the early 1960s revealed a sequence with a Mousterian occupation, of which the principal finds were two bout coupé handaxes, stratified close to the base of a Middle Devensian hyaena-den accumulation. The human occupation should belong within the period 64–38 ka with comparative and stratigraphic evidence favouring a date within the earlier part of this range before 50 ka. The hyaena-den occupa…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
This twentieth list of accelerator dates consists mainly of material dated since the beginning of 1993.but includes a number of measurements made earlier in the dating programme.The dates have been achieved by the methods described in Law and Hedges (1989), Hedges et ul.(1989; 1992).Determinations with OxA numbers greater than 2095 were measured on the CO, gas ion-source (Bronk and Hedges 1989) rather than on the previous iron-graphite system.In …
More on the origins of Venice
Three years ago, ANTIQUITY reported a first archaeological insight into the origins of Venice. The city's historical records, famously good and full for its flourishing, say very little about the beginnings. This second report includes direct evidence from Piazza San Marco, the heart of the city
Radiocarbon evidence for the Lateglacial Human Recolonisation of Northern Europe
This paper examines, through the use of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry dating, the database of Lateglacial cultures involved in the recolonisation of northern Europe. The aim is not only to determine the timing of that recolonisation, but also to propose a general model of hunter-gatherer colonisation at a sub-continental scale. The question is addressed of how long the period of abandonment of northern Europe during the Würm/Weichsel glaciation m…
The Oxford Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Layers in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The sixth list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The eleLenth list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
The Lowland Maya “Protoclassic
The term “Protoclassic,” employed regularly but inexplicitly in the literature of lowland Maya archaeology, has become increasingly nebulous and ambiguous in both meaning and usage. This paper reviews the history and use of the term and presents a formal redefinition of the Protoclassic as a ceramic stage based explicitly and exclusively on ceramic criteria. Some suggestions regarding future use of the term also are offered. The paper further add…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The seventh list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System Archaeometry Datelist 8
The eighth list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Cnn~merzt (V. J.): the chironomid dates are substantially younger than the corresponding bulk dates. They also show a date reversal at 150-153 cm, which is not apparent from the bulk dates. Although the conventional dates in this part of the core d o not appcar to be influenced by old I4C from catchment erosion (Stevenson rr ul. 1990) this possibility cannot be entirely discounted. Therefore it is very diflicult to evaluate whether the chironomid…
Radiocarbon dating of a recent high latitude peat profile
The value of both high-precision (HP) and AMS 14 C determinations in the fine-resolution dating of recent peat at Stor Åmyrân, near Umeå, northern Sweden has been explored. A detailed chronology of accumu lation, based on 14 C, an occurrence of the Askja AD 1875 tephra and 241 Am measurements has been derived for the last 700 years. This shows significant changes in the mass balance of the peat profile, with minimum rates of net carbon sequestrat…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Coygan Cave, Laugharne, South Wales, a Mousterian Site and Hyaena Den
Excavation by Charles McBurney and John Clegg during the early 1960s revealed a sequence with a Mousterian occupation, of which the principal finds were two bout coupé handaxes, stratified close to the base of a Middle Devensian hyaena-den accumulation. The human occupation should belong within the period 64–38 ka with comparative and stratigraphic evidence favouring a date within the earlier part of this range before 50 ka. The hyaena-den occupa…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Dimlington Stadial (proximal glaciomarine). OxA-2780 agrees with the deep water fauna to be expected in middle Holocene times. 0xA-'781 is too old for the Holocene Loch Lomond Stadial boundary, but confirms the view from detailed lithological and palaeontological investigation that there is an unconformity below the middle Holocene and that the upper Loch Loniond Stadial and basal Holocene strata are missing. OxA-2782 and -2783 suggest that onl) …
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
This twentieth list of accelerator dates consists mainly of material dated since the beginning of 1993.but includes a number of measurements made earlier in the dating programme.The dates have been achieved by the methods described in Law and Hedges (1989), Hedges et ul.(1989; 1992).Determinations with OxA numbers greater than 2095 were measured on the CO, gas ion-source (Bronk and Hedges 1989) rather than on the previous iron-graphite system.In …
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The view o f the author (Merritt. in Auton e / of. 1990) is that the shelly cln). together with masses of shell. dianiicton occurring elseuhere in the vicinity are indeed glacially transported allochthons probably derived from the Loch Ness Basin. which had been an arm of the sea prior to the build-up of the bate-Devensian ice-sheet A mean amino acid ratio of 0.04 has been obtained from Lr/rorincr.y originally collected from the "Main Pit" in I89…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Comment (R. M. J.): the Pleistocene fauna from Steetley Wood Cave differs from any so far reported from Creswell Crags, less than 5 km to the south-west, in its limited range of speciesbear, wolf, fox, reindeer and a bovine (seemingly bison). In this it resembles the much larger faunal sample from Windy Knoll near Castleton, Derbyshire. The infinite age obtained offers no contradiction to the hypothesis that these and other equivalent assemblages…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Nancy was not alone
Four separate finds of human skeletal remains from the Norfolk Fens have been 14 C-dated to the Early Bronze Age. It is suggested that they are a facet of the far more extensive deposition of bodies and artefacts in wet places
Sea-level change and the archaeology of early Venice
The threatened city of Venice, plauged by rising sea levels and subsiding ground, has been the subject of recent archaeological investigation. Studies of buried archaeological sites yield new evidence on trends in sea-level change for the Lagoon of Venice and provide important insight into how early habitation responded to such change
AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
The use of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) on human bone from early Maya burials at Cuello, Belize provides direct dating of the Preclassic population, and assists resolution of the chronological problems discussed by Andrews and Hammond (1990
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The sixth list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The seventh list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System Archaeometry Datelist 8
The eighth list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
AMS and Radiometric Dating of an Etruscan Linen Book and Associated Mummy
An important Etruscan linen “book,” the Liber linteus Zagrabiensis , was preserved in wrappings of an Egyptian mummy. Stylistic estimates for the date of composition of the text vary. Three possible centuries were suggested, the 3rd and the 1st centuries BC and the 1st century ad. Radiometric and AMS dating of the linen book and the mummy has demonstrated multiple uses for differing aged materials. There seem to be at least two sets of linen wrap…
The Oxford Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The eleLenth list of dates from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Eighth Millennium Pottery from a Prehistoric Shell Midden in the Brazilian Amazon
The earliest pottery yet found in the Western Hemisphere has been excavated from a prehistoric shell midden near Santarém in the lower Amazon, Brazil. Calibrated accelerator radiocarbon dates on charcoal, shell, and pottery and a thermoluminescence date on pottery from the site fall from about 8000 to 7000 years before the present. The early fishing village is part of a long prehistoric trajectory that contradicts theories that resource poverty l…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Dimlington Stadial (proximal glaciomarine). OxA-2780 agrees with the deep water fauna to be expected in middle Holocene times. 0xA-'781 is too old for the Holocene Loch Lomond Stadial boundary, but confirms the view from detailed lithological and palaeontological investigation that there is an unconformity below the middle Holocene and that the upper Loch Loniond Stadial and basal Holocene strata are missing. OxA-2782 and -2783 suggest that onl) …
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
The view o f the author (Merritt. in Auton e / of. 1990) is that the shelly cln). together with masses of shell. dianiicton occurring elseuhere in the vicinity are indeed glacially transported allochthons probably derived from the Loch Ness Basin. which had been an arm of the sea prior to the build-up of the bate-Devensian ice-sheet A mean amino acid ratio of 0.04 has been obtained from Lr/rorincr.y originally collected from the "Main Pit" in I89…
The Postclassic at Cuello, Belize
Accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) dating of animal bone from Preclassic and Postclassic contexts at the Maya site of Cuello, Belize, has demonstrated the utility of the method in a humid tropical lowland environment, and has documented a hitherto unsuspected period of Postclassic activity including architectural construction and apparent occupation
AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
The use of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) on human bone from early Maya burials at Cuello, Belize provides direct dating of the Preclassic population, and assists resolution of the chronological problems discussed by Andrews and Hammond (1990
Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Cnn~merzt (V. J.): the chironomid dates are substantially younger than the corresponding bulk dates. They also show a date reversal at 150-153 cm, which is not apparent from the bulk dates. Although the conventional dates in this part of the core d o not appcar to be influenced by old I4C from catchment erosion (Stevenson rr ul. 1990) this possibility cannot be entirely discounted. Therefore it is very diflicult to evaluate whether the chironomid…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Nancy was not alone
Four separate finds of human skeletal remains from the Norfolk Fens have been 14 C-dated to the Early Bronze Age. It is suggested that they are a facet of the far more extensive deposition of bodies and artefacts in wet places
New evidence on the origins of Venice
Despite the city's long and illustrious history, little is known about the urban origins of Venice from the archaeological record. Recent excavations at the church of San Lorenzo have produced radiocarbon dates that give direct evidence for human occupation in the late 6th and 7th centuries AD, lending support to the tradition of settlement by refugees from the Lombard occupation of the mainland
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Comment (R. M. J.): the Pleistocene fauna from Steetley Wood Cave differs from any so far reported from Creswell Crags, less than 5 km to the south-west, in its limited range of speciesbear, wolf, fox, reindeer and a bovine (seemingly bison). In this it resembles the much larger faunal sample from Windy Knoll near Castleton, Derbyshire. The infinite age obtained offers no contradiction to the hypothesis that these and other equivalent assemblages…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Coygan Cave, Laugharne, South Wales, a Mousterian Site and Hyaena Den
Excavation by Charles McBurney and John Clegg during the early 1960s revealed a sequence with a Mousterian occupation, of which the principal finds were two bout coupé handaxes, stratified close to the base of a Middle Devensian hyaena-den accumulation. The human occupation should belong within the period 64–38 ka with comparative and stratigraphic evidence favouring a date within the earlier part of this range before 50 ka. The hyaena-den occupa…
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
This twentieth list of accelerator dates consists mainly of material dated since the beginning of 1993.but includes a number of measurements made earlier in the dating programme.The dates have been achieved by the methods described in Law and Hedges (1989), Hedges et ul.(1989; 1992).Determinations with OxA numbers greater than 2095 were measured on the CO, gas ion-source (Bronk and Hedges 1989) rather than on the previous iron-graphite system.In …
More on the origins of Venice
Three years ago, ANTIQUITY reported a first archaeological insight into the origins of Venice. The city's historical records, famously good and full for its flourishing, say very little about the beginnings. This second report includes direct evidence from Piazza San Marco, the heart of the city
Archaeology (44 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (38 works) · Radiocarbon dating (31 works) · History (28 works) · Geography (26 works) · Accelerator mass spectrometry (16 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (16 works) · Archaeological science (16 works) · Geology (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works)