Peter Rowley-Conwy

Biographic Data

ID3608367
NAMEPeter Rowley-Conwy
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMERowley-Conwy
SIGNATUREROWLEY-CONWY P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS585
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX11

  • Mesolithic Landscapes and Niche Construction

    P A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Mesolithic…2025

    Niche construction (NC) is the manipulation of resources to increase their availability to humans. It has been insufficiently emphasized in Mesolithic Europe. Traditionally, hunter-gatherers were assumed to be incapable of environmental modification. Ethnographic work on NC has recently seen massive strides, particularly in Australia. Early British settlers did not, however, grasp that they were seeing a heavily modified landscape, because they w…

  • Testing the presence of cereal-type pollen grains in coastal pre-Elm Decline peat deposits

    Open AccessJames B Innés, Mairead Rutherford et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2024References: 39

    By the time of the Mid-Holocene Ulmus pollen decline (UD) ca. 5100 14 C bp (ca. 5900 cal. BP), the Neolithic was becoming well established in Britain and Ireland. The importance of cereal cultivation as part of the initial neolithization process in the British Isles is uncertain, as archaeological sites of the first Neolithic remain elusive. Palaeoecologists have recorded cereal-type pollen grains in peat deposits that pre-date the UD significant…

  • Zvelebil, Marek

    Open AccessP A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • A Meeting in the Forest

    Open AccessK J Gron, P A Rowley‐conwy et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2018Cited by: 7References: 64

    The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’ is an Early Neolithic pit located just south-east of Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Excavations recovered a faunal assemblage unique in its composition, consisting of both wild and domestic species, as well as large quantities of ceramics and stone tools, including a substantial proportion of blades/bladelets. We present a suite of new isotope analyses of the faunal material, together with ancient DNA sex determination, and recons…

  • Zooarchaeology and the elusive feast

    P A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyARTICLEWorld Archaeology2018Cited by: 15References: 43

    Ethnographic descriptions of feasts reveal that consumption of meat is usually prominent. Zooarchaeological evidence may thus provide the best way of seeing feasts in the archaeological record. The accumulation of trophy arrays and ongoing high-status activities are confusing behaviours that may be misconstrued as archaeological evidence of feasts. A four-fold classification of zooarchaeological evidence for feasts is put forward: 'over the top' …

  • Economic Zooarchaeology

    Peter Rowley-Conwy, Dale Serjeantson et al.BOOKEconomic Zooarchaeology2017

  • Modelling the earliest north-western dispersal of Mediterranean Impressed Wares

    Open AccessDidier Binder, Philippe Lanos et al.ARTICLEDocumenta Praehistorica2017

    The authors attempt to specify the diffusion pattern of the Impressed-Ware Neolithic (Im­presso-cardial complex, ICC), from south-eastern Italy onto the French Mediterranean coasts. Using ChronoModel® software, a Bayesian model was built with sets of dates obtained on well-contextualised, short-lived samples. The results highlight a clear tightening of the chronology in the so-called nuclear area (Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria) and a pioneer dispe…

  • Hunter-Gatherer Variability

    Open AccessP A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-Conwy et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2017

    Hunter-fisher-gatherer (HFG) variability has received a lot of attention. We review the key developments in the theories of variability, which have usually resulted in binary classifications. We argue that a range of variation based on the degree of territorial ownership is preferable to these classifications. Hunter-fisher-gatherers of the world’s northern coasts have only been partially explored in this way with regard to variability. A major r…

  • The advance of cultivation at its northern European limit

    Open AccessMaria Lahtinen, Markku Oinonen et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2016Cited by: 2References: 26

    Dates for early cultivation in Finland obtained from pollen analysis and remains from archaeological sites are compared with the changes in population size derived from the summed calendar-year probability distributions. The results from these two independent proxies correlate strongly with one another indicating that population size and the advance of farming were closely linked to each other. Moreover, the results show that the adaptation and d…

  • Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia

    Open AccessK J Gron, P A Rowley‐conwy et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2016Cited by: 16References: 12

    Farming practice in the first period of the southern Scandinavian Neolithic (Early Neolithic I, Funnel Beaker Culture, 3950–3500 cal. BC) is not well understood. Despite the presence of the first farmers and their domesticated plants and animals, little evidence of profound changes to the landscape such as widespread deforestation has emerged from this crucial early period. Bone collagen dietary stable isotope ratios of wild herbivores from south…

  • Foragers and Farmers in Mesolithic/Neolithic Europe, 5500–3900 cal. BC

    P A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyCHAPTERWild Things2014

  • Wild Boar or Domestic Pigs? Response to Evin et al

    P A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-Conwy et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2014Cited by: 4References: 1

    We continue to contest the claim by Evin et al. (2014) that Rosenhof E24 and other Mesolithic pigs were domestic. E24’s mixture of ‘wild’ and ‘domestic’ traits is best explained as indicating a behaviourally wild boar with some domestic ancestry. The fascinating complexities of this situation should not be downplayed in favour of a simplified, more newsworthy (but probably incorrect) conclusion

  • Mesolithic domestic pigs at Rosenhof - or wild boar? A critical re-appraisal of ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics

    P A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-Conwy et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2014Cited by: 11References: 18

    We challenge the claim by Krause-Kyora et al. (2013) that there were domestic pigs at Mesolithic sites in northern Germany. A small number of animals from Rosenhof and Poel have ancient DNA and geometric morphometric signatures elsewhere associated with domestic animals. At this time Neolithic farming settlements were present 150km to the south, but the Mesolithic specimens are, however, metrically wild boar, much larger than domestic pigs, and c…

  • The four horses of an Iron Age apocalypse

    Open AccessAndres S Dobat, T D Price et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 2References: 8

    The Illerup Aadal weapon sacrifice mirrors the material world of a Germanic army from c. AD 210. Apart from the personal equipment and the weaponry of more than 400 warriors, it comprises four horses. The present paper gives the first conclusive analysis of the skeletal remains of these animals, involving osteological investigation and strontium isotope analysis. The results shed new light on the character of the sacrificial ceremonies which unfo…

  • Early Farming in Finland

    Open AccessMaria Lahtinen, P A Rowley‐conwy et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Archaeology2013Cited by: 29References: 3

    We review the evidence for the earliest agriculture in Finland. The claims are all based on pollen analysis. Some claims go back to the Neolithic period. We contest these claims critically and argue that the ‘early cereal-type’ pollen grains may in fact come from large-grained wild grasses, and cannot be taken as clear evidence for cultivation in the absence of other lines of evidence. Cultivation of cereals in Finland may have started as late as…

  • Other Comparisons, Other Directions

    P A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyARTICLENorwegian Archaeological Review2013

  • Distinguishing Wild Boar from Domestic Pigs in Prehistory

    Open AccessP A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-Conwy et al.ARTICLEJournal of World Prehistory2012

  • Disease, CCR5-Δ32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis

    Open AccessIan Holtby, C Scarre et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2012Cited by: 1References: 21

    From its origins in the Starčcevo-Körös culture of the Hungarian Plain around 5700 BC the Neolithic archaeological assemblage of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) spread within two centuries to reach Alsace and the middle Rhine by 5500 BC, though the rapidity of the spread makes it difficult to measure using available radiocarbon evidence (Dolukhanov et al. 2005). In this same time period, during the Terminal Mesolithic, c. 5800 to 5500 BC, there is ev…

  • Foraging and farming as niche construction

    Open AccessP A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-Conwy et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Transactions of the…2011

    All forager (or hunter–gatherer) societies construct niches, many of them actively by the concentration of wild plants into useful stands, small-scale cultivation, burning of natural vegetation to encourage useful species, and various forms of hunting, collectively termed ‘low-level food production’. Many such niches are stable and can continue indefinitely, because forager populations are usually stable. Some are unstable, but these usually tran…

  • Westward Ho

    P A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyARTICLECurrent Anthropology2011Cited by: 71References: 87

    Recent work on the four major areas of the spread of agriculture in Neolithic western Europe has revealed that they are both chronologically and economically much more abrupt than has hitherto been envisaged. Most claims of a little agriculture in Late Mesolithic communities are shown to be incorrect. In most places, full sedentary agriculture was introduced very rapidly at the start of the Neolithic. "Transitional" economies are virtually absent…

  • Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar ( Sus scrofa ), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history

    U Albarella, Keith Dobney et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2009Cited by: 16References: 12

    A large assortment of skulls and skeletons of recent wild boar (Sus scrofa) from across the world has been used to collect tooth and bone measurements that can be compared to those from archaeological specimens. The data provide useful information for a reconstruction of the Holocene history of the species. The evidence collected so far highlights the great variability of the species and provides a baseline to be used for the interpretation of an…

  • Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe

    Open AccessGreger Larson, U Albarella et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2007

    The Neolithic Revolution began 11,000 years ago in the Near East and preceded a westward migration into Europe of distinctive cultural groups and their agricultural economies, including domesticated animals and plants. Despite decades of research, no consensus has emerged about the extent of admixture between the indigenous and exotic populations or the degree to which the appearance of specific components of the “Neolithic cultural package” in E…

  • Report on two meetings held in Durham

    Open AccessP A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyARTICLEBulletin of the History of…2007

  • The National Museum of Denmark 1807–2007

    Open AccessP A Rowley‐conwy, Peter Rowley-ConwyARTICLEBulletin of the History of…2007

  • Pig Hunting and Husbandry in Prehistoric Italy

    Open AccessU Albarella, Antonio Tagliacozzo et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2006Cited by: 2References: 20

    In this article the evidence of pig exploitation in the prehistory of the Italian peninsula and Sicily is presented. Though some differences in pig morphology seem to have existed between different parts of the country, a broadly consistent diachronic pattern of change has emerged. In the Mesolithic fairly small wild boars (with bones quite large in relation to the teeth) lived in Italy. For most of the Neolithic pigs of a similar size and shape …