Kevin Kearney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5774530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Kearney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kearney |
| SIGNATURE | KEARNEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5753-4239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracking medieval and early modern expansion of livestock farming in Sweden’s boreal forest
Today much of northern Europe’s boreal forest is managed for commercial forestry. But up to the early 20th century it was a landscape of smallholder farming, with rearing of cattle, goats and sheep the key economic activity. In the boreal forest ‘outlands’ of central Sweden, previous palaeoecological research has shown there to be a long history to this farming, stretching back to the 1st millennium ad in many areas, and the 1st millennium bc in …
Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions
This paper uses interdisciplinary methods to investigate responses to the Little Ice Age in regions where livestock farming was dominant, a neglected subject due to the scarcity of detailed written records regarding pastoral land use. It argues that landscape-level histories which include pollen evidence and archaeology can address this challenge and reveal local processes of climate adaptation. Here we focus on Ireland and Scotland and a fascina…
A multi-proxy Holocene palaeoenvironmental record of climate change and prehistoric human activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland
A multiproxy (pollen, microcharcoal, loss-on-ignition, magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry) sequence from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland, supported by a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology, modelled using Bayesian approaches, provides a record of environmental change for much of the Holocene. Following the establishment of mixed deciduous woodland, climatic deterioration was likely responsible for pronounced vegetation change and erosion…
Recession or Resilience
A consistent theme in British prehistoric studies is a perceived lack of evidence for settlement and agriculture in the Neolithic (c.4000 cal BC – 2500 cal BC), which then increases in prevalence during the Bronze Age. This lack of evidence for Neolithic settlement and farming has been linked to a collapse of agriculture associated with population decline and climatic deterioration from c.3600 cal BC onwards, with population recovery and the resu…
Palynological investigation of a later Bronze Age copper mine at Derrycarhoon in south-west Ireland
This paper presents the results of a recent palynological analysis at a prehistoric mine in the Mizen Peninsula of West Cork.Archaeological survey and excavation confirm Derrycarhoon is the first copper mine in Ireland dated to the later Bronze Age, c.1400-1000 BC.The production there represents the end of a mining tradition in the south-west region that began a millennium or so earlier at Ross Island, Co. Kerry.The palynological study at Derryca…
The Elm Decline is Dead! Long Live Declines in Elm
The Elm Decline (ED), is a marked reduction in Ulmus recognised in pollen diagrams from across north/northwest Europe c. 5-6000 cal BP, the causes of which have been much discussed for over half a century, partly because of its broad chronological correspondence with the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. We present a formal statistical analysis of the ED chronology in Ireland, analysing its association with early Neolithic anthropogenic activity a…
Vegetation impacts and early Neolithic monumentality
Electronic banking
A multi-proxy Holocene palaeoenvironmental record of climate change and prehistoric human activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland
A multiproxy (pollen, microcharcoal, loss-on-ignition, magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry) sequence from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland, supported by a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology, modelled using Bayesian approaches, provides a record of environmental change for much of the Holocene. Following the establishment of mixed deciduous woodland, climatic deterioration was likely responsible for pronounced vegetation change and erosion…
The Elm Decline is Dead! Long Live Declines in Elm
The Elm Decline (ED), is a marked reduction in Ulmus recognised in pollen diagrams from across north/northwest Europe c. 5-6000 cal BP, the causes of which have been much discussed for over half a century, partly because of its broad chronological correspondence with the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. We present a formal statistical analysis of the ED chronology in Ireland, analysing its association with early Neolithic anthropogenic activity a…
Electronic banking
Vegetation impacts and early Neolithic monumentality
The Elm Decline is Dead! Long Live Declines in Elm
The Elm Decline (ED), is a marked reduction in Ulmus recognised in pollen diagrams from across north/northwest Europe c. 5-6000 cal BP, the causes of which have been much discussed for over half a century, partly because of its broad chronological correspondence with the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. We present a formal statistical analysis of the ED chronology in Ireland, analysing its association with early Neolithic anthropogenic activity a…
Recession or Resilience
A consistent theme in British prehistoric studies is a perceived lack of evidence for settlement and agriculture in the Neolithic (c.4000 cal BC – 2500 cal BC), which then increases in prevalence during the Bronze Age. This lack of evidence for Neolithic settlement and farming has been linked to a collapse of agriculture associated with population decline and climatic deterioration from c.3600 cal BC onwards, with population recovery and the resu…
Palynological investigation of a later Bronze Age copper mine at Derrycarhoon in south-west Ireland
This paper presents the results of a recent palynological analysis at a prehistoric mine in the Mizen Peninsula of West Cork.Archaeological survey and excavation confirm Derrycarhoon is the first copper mine in Ireland dated to the later Bronze Age, c.1400-1000 BC.The production there represents the end of a mining tradition in the south-west region that began a millennium or so earlier at Ross Island, Co. Kerry.The palynological study at Derryca…
A multi-proxy Holocene palaeoenvironmental record of climate change and prehistoric human activity from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland
A multiproxy (pollen, microcharcoal, loss-on-ignition, magnetic susceptibility and geochemistry) sequence from Lough Cullin, southeast Ireland, supported by a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology, modelled using Bayesian approaches, provides a record of environmental change for much of the Holocene. Following the establishment of mixed deciduous woodland, climatic deterioration was likely responsible for pronounced vegetation change and erosion…
Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions
This paper uses interdisciplinary methods to investigate responses to the Little Ice Age in regions where livestock farming was dominant, a neglected subject due to the scarcity of detailed written records regarding pastoral land use. It argues that landscape-level histories which include pollen evidence and archaeology can address this challenge and reveal local processes of climate adaptation. Here we focus on Ireland and Scotland and a fascina…
Tracking medieval and early modern expansion of livestock farming in Sweden’s boreal forest
Today much of northern Europe’s boreal forest is managed for commercial forestry. But up to the early 20th century it was a landscape of smallholder farming, with rearing of cattle, goats and sheep the key economic activity. In the boreal forest ‘outlands’ of central Sweden, previous palaeoecological research has shown there to be a long history to this farming, stretching back to the 1st millennium ad in many areas, and the 1st millennium bc in …
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Physical geography (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Bronze Age (3 works)