Richard Macphail
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 118280 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Macphail |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Macphail |
| FIRMA | MACPHAIL R |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute of Archaeology |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Submerged Mesolithic plant remains reveal lush thermophilous woodland on remote isle off the SW-Norwegian coast
A palaeoecological multidisciplinary study from a well-preserved bark dominated structure and other organic sediments are presented. The study provides new data about Mesolithic coastal environments and includes a reconstruction of concurrent vegetation units, concluding that thermophilous woodland was established at the outer SW-Norwegian coast as early as 9000-8500 cal. BP. A pine bark dominated, possibly human made, structure was recovered fro…
Iron Age Settlements and Roman Roads
Excavations along an 18.5km stretch of the Angelinos trunk water main in north Oxfordshire between Tackley and Milton uncovered a panoply of prehistoric to post-medieval remains. Residual sherds of Beaker pottery suggest Chalcolithic/early Bronze Age activity within the vicinity of the development, but most of the excavated features were middle Iron Age in date, comprising linear boundaries and probable enclosures. At least three areas of domesti…
Mercury enrichment in anthrosols and adjacent coastal sediments at a Classic Maya site, Marco Gonzalez, Belize
Elevated concentrations of total mercury (THg) are found in the surface soils and flanking wetland sediments at the Classic Maya coastal site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize. Significant concentrations (up to 1.3 μg·g −1 dry mass) of THg occur in leaf litter‐rich soils, as well as in the artefact‐rich anthrosol spread over the vegetated mound site of structures and occupation debris. The abundance and spatial pattern of major and trace elements measure…
Analysis of prehistoric brown earth paleosols under the podzol soils of Exmoor, UK
The deforestation of the upland landscapes in southwest Britain during prehistory is an established archaeological narrative, documenting human impacts on the environment and questioning the relationship of prehistoric societies to the upland landscapes they inhabited. Allied to the paleoenvironmental analyses of pollen sequences, which have provided the evidence of this change, there has been some investigation of prehistoric paleosols fossilize…
Constructing and deconstructing the Gokstad mound
Viking Age burial mounds are usually interpreted with reference to their exterior dimensions, the funerary treatment of the deceased and the artefacts placed within them. The process of constructing these mounds, however, may also have played an important role in funerary traditions. Investigations at the Gokstad mound in Norway demonstrate that the building of this mound-in terms of its phases and material expressions-formed an integral part of …
New excavations at the HWK EE site
The contexts and early Acheulean archaeology of the EF-HR paleo-landscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
The Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Rising social complexity, agricultural intensification, and the earliest rice paddies on the Loess Plateau of northern China
Making and Breaking Microliths
Archaeological fieldwork preceding housing development revealed a Mesolithic site in a primary context. A central hearth was evident from a cluster of calcined flint and bone, the latter producing a modelled date for the start of occupation at 8220–7840 cal bc and ending at 7960–7530 cal bc (95% probability). The principal activity was the knapping of bladelets, the blanks for microlith production. Impact-damaged microliths indicated the re-tooli…
A new Later Upper Palaeolithic open-air site with articulated horse bone in the Colne Valley, Berkshire
The end of the last Ice Age in Britain (c. 11500 BP) created major disruption to the biosphere. Open habitats were succeeded by more wooded landscapes, and changes occurred to the fauna following the abrupt disappearance of typical glacial herd species, such as reindeer and horse (Conneller & Higham 2015). Understanding the impact of these changes on humans and how quickly they were able to adapt may soon become clearer, due to recent discoveries…
Past and Future Earth
Marco Gonzalez is one of a number of Maya sites on Belize’s coast and cayes (coral islands) that exhibit anomalous vegetation and dark-coloured soils. Like Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), the soils are sought locally for cultivation and are underlain by anthropogenic deposits. Our research is aimed at assessing the role of the anthropogenic deposits in soil formation processes with a view to developing strategies to quantify the long-term environme…
Craig Rhos-y-felin
Integrated microstratigraphic investigations of coastal archaeological soils and sediments in Norway
Mesolithic and Neolithic Human Remains from Foxhole Cave, Gower, South Wales
This paper presents an overview of the results of two brief excavation seasons (2008 and 2010) at Foxhole Cave, Gower, south Wales, placing them into the wider context of mid-Holocene Britain. No prehistoric pottery was found and the few pieces of worked flint recovered are diagnostic of the Mesolithic period. Typically for the Carboniferous limestone caves of Gower, bone was well preserved, however, and though much of the material in the heavily…
A Final Upper Palaeolithic Site at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, Hampshire
Excavations at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, uncovered a Final Upper Palaeolithic flint assemblage representing an open-air, short-term camp. The site is in the Test Valley on a low gravel terrace at the edge of the river system. Two scatters were found. Although not in situ, little lateral movement is indicated for at least one of these scatters from which several core reduction sequences could be determined through a programme of refitting. The o…
Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology
Basic concepts in soil science and current methods field strategies the microscopic approach thin section description sediments anthropogenic features post-depositional processes and relevant features. Case studies: the cave of Vaufrey, Perigard, France Kebara cave, Israel the cave of the pigeons at Taforalt, Eastern Morocco the Acheulean site of Berekhat Ram, Israel the neolithic site of Netiv Hagdud and the Salibya depression, Lower Jordan Vall…
Micromorphological report on Chalton B Layer 3
Layer 3 was examined in the fiela and provisionally interpreted as a Bt horizon. A sample (locaxion shown on fig.5) was examined in thin section in order to throw further light on how the layer had formed. It can be described as follows using the method and terminology of Brewer 1964, Bullock and Murphy 1979:- Homogeneous; well developed fine and meciium subangular blocky; total macrovoids (> 20 μm) 13.1%; smoothed orthovughs and channels occur i…
New excavations at the HWK EE site
The contexts and early Acheulean archaeology of the EF-HR paleo-landscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Mesolithic and Neolithic Human Remains from Foxhole Cave, Gower, South Wales
This paper presents an overview of the results of two brief excavation seasons (2008 and 2010) at Foxhole Cave, Gower, south Wales, placing them into the wider context of mid-Holocene Britain. No prehistoric pottery was found and the few pieces of worked flint recovered are diagnostic of the Mesolithic period. Typically for the Carboniferous limestone caves of Gower, bone was well preserved, however, and though much of the material in the heavily…
Craig Rhos-y-felin
Mercury enrichment in anthrosols and adjacent coastal sediments at a Classic Maya site, Marco Gonzalez, Belize
Elevated concentrations of total mercury (THg) are found in the surface soils and flanking wetland sediments at the Classic Maya coastal site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize. Significant concentrations (up to 1.3 μg·g −1 dry mass) of THg occur in leaf litter‐rich soils, as well as in the artefact‐rich anthrosol spread over the vegetated mound site of structures and occupation debris. The abundance and spatial pattern of major and trace elements measure…
Constructing and deconstructing the Gokstad mound
Viking Age burial mounds are usually interpreted with reference to their exterior dimensions, the funerary treatment of the deceased and the artefacts placed within them. The process of constructing these mounds, however, may also have played an important role in funerary traditions. Investigations at the Gokstad mound in Norway demonstrate that the building of this mound-in terms of its phases and material expressions-formed an integral part of …
Making and Breaking Microliths
Archaeological fieldwork preceding housing development revealed a Mesolithic site in a primary context. A central hearth was evident from a cluster of calcined flint and bone, the latter producing a modelled date for the start of occupation at 8220–7840 cal bc and ending at 7960–7530 cal bc (95% probability). The principal activity was the knapping of bladelets, the blanks for microlith production. Impact-damaged microliths indicated the re-tooli…
Analysis of prehistoric brown earth paleosols under the podzol soils of Exmoor, UK
The deforestation of the upland landscapes in southwest Britain during prehistory is an established archaeological narrative, documenting human impacts on the environment and questioning the relationship of prehistoric societies to the upland landscapes they inhabited. Allied to the paleoenvironmental analyses of pollen sequences, which have provided the evidence of this change, there has been some investigation of prehistoric paleosols fossilize…
A Final Upper Palaeolithic Site at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, Hampshire
Excavations at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, uncovered a Final Upper Palaeolithic flint assemblage representing an open-air, short-term camp. The site is in the Test Valley on a low gravel terrace at the edge of the river system. Two scatters were found. Although not in situ, little lateral movement is indicated for at least one of these scatters from which several core reduction sequences could be determined through a programme of refitting. The o…
A new Later Upper Palaeolithic open-air site with articulated horse bone in the Colne Valley, Berkshire
The end of the last Ice Age in Britain (c. 11500 BP) created major disruption to the biosphere. Open habitats were succeeded by more wooded landscapes, and changes occurred to the fauna following the abrupt disappearance of typical glacial herd species, such as reindeer and horse (Conneller & Higham 2015). Understanding the impact of these changes on humans and how quickly they were able to adapt may soon become clearer, due to recent discoveries…
Micromorphological report on Chalton B Layer 3
Layer 3 was examined in the fiela and provisionally interpreted as a Bt horizon. A sample (locaxion shown on fig.5) was examined in thin section in order to throw further light on how the layer had formed. It can be described as follows using the method and terminology of Brewer 1964, Bullock and Murphy 1979:- Homogeneous; well developed fine and meciium subangular blocky; total macrovoids (> 20 μm) 13.1%; smoothed orthovughs and channels occur i…
Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology
Basic concepts in soil science and current methods field strategies the microscopic approach thin section description sediments anthropogenic features post-depositional processes and relevant features. Case studies: the cave of Vaufrey, Perigard, France Kebara cave, Israel the cave of the pigeons at Taforalt, Eastern Morocco the Acheulean site of Berekhat Ram, Israel the neolithic site of Netiv Hagdud and the Salibya depression, Lower Jordan Vall…
A Final Upper Palaeolithic Site at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, Hampshire
Excavations at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, uncovered a Final Upper Palaeolithic flint assemblage representing an open-air, short-term camp. The site is in the Test Valley on a low gravel terrace at the edge of the river system. Two scatters were found. Although not in situ, little lateral movement is indicated for at least one of these scatters from which several core reduction sequences could be determined through a programme of refitting. The o…
Integrated microstratigraphic investigations of coastal archaeological soils and sediments in Norway
Mesolithic and Neolithic Human Remains from Foxhole Cave, Gower, South Wales
This paper presents an overview of the results of two brief excavation seasons (2008 and 2010) at Foxhole Cave, Gower, south Wales, placing them into the wider context of mid-Holocene Britain. No prehistoric pottery was found and the few pieces of worked flint recovered are diagnostic of the Mesolithic period. Typically for the Carboniferous limestone caves of Gower, bone was well preserved, however, and though much of the material in the heavily…
Craig Rhos-y-felin
Past and Future Earth
Marco Gonzalez is one of a number of Maya sites on Belize’s coast and cayes (coral islands) that exhibit anomalous vegetation and dark-coloured soils. Like Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), the soils are sought locally for cultivation and are underlain by anthropogenic deposits. Our research is aimed at assessing the role of the anthropogenic deposits in soil formation processes with a view to developing strategies to quantify the long-term environme…
The Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Rising social complexity, agricultural intensification, and the earliest rice paddies on the Loess Plateau of northern China
Making and Breaking Microliths
Archaeological fieldwork preceding housing development revealed a Mesolithic site in a primary context. A central hearth was evident from a cluster of calcined flint and bone, the latter producing a modelled date for the start of occupation at 8220–7840 cal bc and ending at 7960–7530 cal bc (95% probability). The principal activity was the knapping of bladelets, the blanks for microlith production. Impact-damaged microliths indicated the re-tooli…
A new Later Upper Palaeolithic open-air site with articulated horse bone in the Colne Valley, Berkshire
The end of the last Ice Age in Britain (c. 11500 BP) created major disruption to the biosphere. Open habitats were succeeded by more wooded landscapes, and changes occurred to the fauna following the abrupt disappearance of typical glacial herd species, such as reindeer and horse (Conneller & Higham 2015). Understanding the impact of these changes on humans and how quickly they were able to adapt may soon become clearer, due to recent discoveries…
New excavations at the HWK EE site
The contexts and early Acheulean archaeology of the EF-HR paleo-landscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Analysis of prehistoric brown earth paleosols under the podzol soils of Exmoor, UK
The deforestation of the upland landscapes in southwest Britain during prehistory is an established archaeological narrative, documenting human impacts on the environment and questioning the relationship of prehistoric societies to the upland landscapes they inhabited. Allied to the paleoenvironmental analyses of pollen sequences, which have provided the evidence of this change, there has been some investigation of prehistoric paleosols fossilize…
Constructing and deconstructing the Gokstad mound
Viking Age burial mounds are usually interpreted with reference to their exterior dimensions, the funerary treatment of the deceased and the artefacts placed within them. The process of constructing these mounds, however, may also have played an important role in funerary traditions. Investigations at the Gokstad mound in Norway demonstrate that the building of this mound-in terms of its phases and material expressions-formed an integral part of …
Iron Age Settlements and Roman Roads
Excavations along an 18.5km stretch of the Angelinos trunk water main in north Oxfordshire between Tackley and Milton uncovered a panoply of prehistoric to post-medieval remains. Residual sherds of Beaker pottery suggest Chalcolithic/early Bronze Age activity within the vicinity of the development, but most of the excavated features were middle Iron Age in date, comprising linear boundaries and probable enclosures. At least three areas of domesti…
Mercury enrichment in anthrosols and adjacent coastal sediments at a Classic Maya site, Marco Gonzalez, Belize
Elevated concentrations of total mercury (THg) are found in the surface soils and flanking wetland sediments at the Classic Maya coastal site of Marco Gonzalez, Belize. Significant concentrations (up to 1.3 μg·g −1 dry mass) of THg occur in leaf litter‐rich soils, as well as in the artefact‐rich anthrosol spread over the vegetated mound site of structures and occupation debris. The abundance and spatial pattern of major and trace elements measure…
Submerged Mesolithic plant remains reveal lush thermophilous woodland on remote isle off the SW-Norwegian coast
A palaeoecological multidisciplinary study from a well-preserved bark dominated structure and other organic sediments are presented. The study provides new data about Mesolithic coastal environments and includes a reconstruction of concurrent vegetation units, concluding that thermophilous woodland was established at the outer SW-Norwegian coast as early as 9000-8500 cal. BP. A pine bark dominated, possibly human made, structure was recovered fro…
Archaeology (17 obras) · Geography (15 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 obras) · Geology (12 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Excavation (7 obras) · Geology (7 obras) · Paleontology (7 obras)