Robert Mcculloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 268348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Mcculloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcculloch |
| SIGNATURE | MCCULLOCH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5542-3703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pollen preservation evidence from southern Patagonia (52°–54°S)
Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula
To provide insights into glacier-climate dynamics of the South Shetland Islands (SSI), NW Antarctic Peninsula, we present a new deglaciation and readvance model for the Bellingshausen Ice Cap (BIC) on Fildes Peninsula and for King George Island/Isla 25 de Mayo (KGI) ~62°S. Deglaciation on KGI began after c. 15 cal. ka BP and had progressed to within present-day limits on the Fildes Peninsula, its largest ice-free peninsula, by c. 6.6–5.3 cal. ka …
Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations
Mineral dust concentrations are coupled to climate over glacial-interglacial cycles with increased dust deposition occurring during major cold phases over the last ~100 ka. Holocene records suggest considerable spatial and temporal variability in the magnitude, frequency and timing of dust peaks that reflects regional or local drivers of dust emissions and transport. Here, we present stratigraphical, geochemical and isotopic evidence for dust dep…
The nature and timing of landscape change at Cerro Benítez, Última Esperanza, southern Patagonia (52°S)
Roman Frontiers and Landscapes of Occupation
Dere Street is the Roman road which ran north from Eboracum (York), crossing the Stanegate at Corbridge and continuing into what is now Scotland. The road served a military and economic purpose facilitating the transport of troops and trade north and south across the frontier zone. Here we present a well resolved palaeoenvironmental record within the Hadrianic-Antonine frontier zone that is tied directly to the archaeological evidence for Dere st…
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for woodland conservation in Northern Iceland from settlement to the twentieth century
Narratives of Norse arrival in Iceland highlight the onset of land degradation and loss of woodland cover as major and long-term environmental consequences of settlement. However, deliberate and sustained land resource management in Iceland is increasingly being recognised, and in this paper we assess whether woodland areas were deliberately managed as fuel resources. Our study location is the high status farm site at Hofstaðir in northern Icelan…
A Holocene record of environmental change from Río Zeballos, central Patagonia
There are few continuous palaeoenvironmental records spanning the Holocene in Andean Southern Patagonia near the Northern Patagonian Ice Field (~47°S). Insights into the environmental context for human–landscape interactions have relied mostly on data extrapolated from distant extra-Andean locations that suggest limited environmental change during the Holocene. La Frontera (46°52′S), a high altitude site on the southern beech forest–steppe ecoton…
Moments of crisis
There is strong evidence for many key turning points in Scottish and north-west European prehistory – what we call moments of 'crisis' – to be associated with evidence for widespread and abrupt natural changes in climate. Association or coincidence are not cause, though, and the testing of specific hypotheses to establish this relation is needed. The timing of these moments of abrupt climatic change in Scottish prehistory is proposed in a review …
High resolution palaeoclimate lake and peat records from Fuego-Patagonia from the LGM to the early-Holocene
A Patagonian glacial geomorphological mechanism for variations in dust emissions recorded in Antarctic ice cores
Palaeoenvironmental context of the early peopling of Fuego-Patagonia, southern South America (∼53oS)
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encounte…
Response to late Bronze Age climate change of farming communities in north east Scotland
Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses
Wet Conditions during the Last Glaciation in the Chihuahuan Desert, Alta Babicora Basin, Mexico
A 467-cm core (B94/3) from the Alta Babicora basin in the Chihuahuan Desert, northern Mexico (29°N, 108°W), documents lake-level and climate changes over the past ca. 65,000 yr. Chronological control is provided by four accelerator mass spectrometry 14 C dates and five U-series dates on diatom silica. The core has been analyzed for magnetic susceptibility, loss-on-ignition, carbonate content, sediment chemistry and mineralogy, and pollen and diat…
The Natural Setting The Glacial and Post-Glacial Environmental History of Fuego-Patagonia
The Last Glaciation in Central Magellan Strait, Southernmost Chile
Glacial landforms and drift stratigraphy in central Magellan Strait, southernmost Chile, document repeated fluctuations during the last glacial cycle of outlet lobes from an ice cap centered over the southern Andes. The lobes developed comparatively low-gradient profiles because of low basal shear stresses over soft deformable beds and this made them sensitive to even small-scale changes in the mass balance. Such low profiles and rapid calving in…
Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encounte…
Response to late Bronze Age climate change of farming communities in north east Scotland
A Holocene record of environmental change from Río Zeballos, central Patagonia
There are few continuous palaeoenvironmental records spanning the Holocene in Andean Southern Patagonia near the Northern Patagonian Ice Field (~47°S). Insights into the environmental context for human–landscape interactions have relied mostly on data extrapolated from distant extra-Andean locations that suggest limited environmental change during the Holocene. La Frontera (46°52′S), a high altitude site on the southern beech forest–steppe ecoton…
Pollen preservation evidence from southern Patagonia (52°–54°S)
Moments of crisis
There is strong evidence for many key turning points in Scottish and north-west European prehistory – what we call moments of 'crisis' – to be associated with evidence for widespread and abrupt natural changes in climate. Association or coincidence are not cause, though, and the testing of specific hypotheses to establish this relation is needed. The timing of these moments of abrupt climatic change in Scottish prehistory is proposed in a review …
The Last Glaciation in Central Magellan Strait, Southernmost Chile
Glacial landforms and drift stratigraphy in central Magellan Strait, southernmost Chile, document repeated fluctuations during the last glacial cycle of outlet lobes from an ice cap centered over the southern Andes. The lobes developed comparatively low-gradient profiles because of low basal shear stresses over soft deformable beds and this made them sensitive to even small-scale changes in the mass balance. Such low profiles and rapid calving in…
The Natural Setting The Glacial and Post-Glacial Environmental History of Fuego-Patagonia
Wet Conditions during the Last Glaciation in the Chihuahuan Desert, Alta Babicora Basin, Mexico
A 467-cm core (B94/3) from the Alta Babicora basin in the Chihuahuan Desert, northern Mexico (29°N, 108°W), documents lake-level and climate changes over the past ca. 65,000 yr. Chronological control is provided by four accelerator mass spectrometry 14 C dates and five U-series dates on diatom silica. The core has been analyzed for magnetic susceptibility, loss-on-ignition, carbonate content, sediment chemistry and mineralogy, and pollen and diat…
Response to late Bronze Age climate change of farming communities in north east Scotland
Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses
High resolution palaeoclimate lake and peat records from Fuego-Patagonia from the LGM to the early-Holocene
A Patagonian glacial geomorphological mechanism for variations in dust emissions recorded in Antarctic ice cores
Palaeoenvironmental context of the early peopling of Fuego-Patagonia, southern South America (∼53oS)
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encounte…
Moments of crisis
There is strong evidence for many key turning points in Scottish and north-west European prehistory – what we call moments of 'crisis' – to be associated with evidence for widespread and abrupt natural changes in climate. Association or coincidence are not cause, though, and the testing of specific hypotheses to establish this relation is needed. The timing of these moments of abrupt climatic change in Scottish prehistory is proposed in a review …
A Holocene record of environmental change from Río Zeballos, central Patagonia
There are few continuous palaeoenvironmental records spanning the Holocene in Andean Southern Patagonia near the Northern Patagonian Ice Field (~47°S). Insights into the environmental context for human–landscape interactions have relied mostly on data extrapolated from distant extra-Andean locations that suggest limited environmental change during the Holocene. La Frontera (46°52′S), a high altitude site on the southern beech forest–steppe ecoton…
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for woodland conservation in Northern Iceland from settlement to the twentieth century
Narratives of Norse arrival in Iceland highlight the onset of land degradation and loss of woodland cover as major and long-term environmental consequences of settlement. However, deliberate and sustained land resource management in Iceland is increasingly being recognised, and in this paper we assess whether woodland areas were deliberately managed as fuel resources. Our study location is the high status farm site at Hofstaðir in northern Icelan…
The nature and timing of landscape change at Cerro Benítez, Última Esperanza, southern Patagonia (52°S)
Roman Frontiers and Landscapes of Occupation
Dere Street is the Roman road which ran north from Eboracum (York), crossing the Stanegate at Corbridge and continuing into what is now Scotland. The road served a military and economic purpose facilitating the transport of troops and trade north and south across the frontier zone. Here we present a well resolved palaeoenvironmental record within the Hadrianic-Antonine frontier zone that is tied directly to the archaeological evidence for Dere st…
Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations
Mineral dust concentrations are coupled to climate over glacial-interglacial cycles with increased dust deposition occurring during major cold phases over the last ~100 ka. Holocene records suggest considerable spatial and temporal variability in the magnitude, frequency and timing of dust peaks that reflects regional or local drivers of dust emissions and transport. Here, we present stratigraphical, geochemical and isotopic evidence for dust dep…
Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula
To provide insights into glacier-climate dynamics of the South Shetland Islands (SSI), NW Antarctic Peninsula, we present a new deglaciation and readvance model for the Bellingshausen Ice Cap (BIC) on Fildes Peninsula and for King George Island/Isla 25 de Mayo (KGI) ~62°S. Deglaciation on KGI began after c. 15 cal. ka BP and had progressed to within present-day limits on the Fildes Peninsula, its largest ice-free peninsula, by c. 6.6–5.3 cal. ka …
Pollen preservation evidence from southern Patagonia (52°–54°S)
Geography (15 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Geology (12 works) · Paleontology (10 works) · Physical geography (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Holocene (7 works)