Andy J Howard
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170445 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andy J Howard |
| NOMBRES | Andy J |
| APELLIDO | Howard |
| FIRMA | HOWARD A J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5112-7189 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
SARchaeological Prospection
Temperate river floodplains present a significant challenge for archaeologists, as cultural and palaeoenvironmental remains are often difficult to locate but can be exceptionally well preserved, especially where groundwater levels are high. In these alluvial environments, the deposition of thick, fine‐grained sediments has potential to deeply bury rich archaeological archives that can be used to reconstruct past environments, but these deposits a…
Lidar visualization techniques for the construction of geoarchaeological deposit models
Lidar has become an essential tool for the mapping and interpretation of natural and archaeological features within the landscape. It is also increasingly integrated and visualized within geoarchaeological deposit models, providing valuable topographic and stratigraphic control from the contemporary ground surface downwards. However, there is a wide range of methods available for the visualization of lidar elevation models and a review of existin…
Modelling geoarchaeological resources in temperate alluvial environments
Temperate river systems cover large regions of the earth's surface and provide challenging environments for the detection of archaeological remains. The deposition of alluvium above, and interbedded with, archaeological deposits means conventional forms of archaeological prospection such as geophysical survey or aerial photography are often ineffective. Consequently, archaeologists have turned to the construction of deposit models to evaluate the…
Environmental Archaeology, Progress and Challenges
This article explores how the discipline of environmental archaeology has fared over the past 15 years, reflecting on several themes considered by authors in Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose (Albarella 2001). Within this timeframe, two significant factors shaping the health of the discipline, namely government research audits and the commercialisation of environmental archaeology, have remained as constant drivers; therefore it migh…
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Deposit modeling for archaeological projects
This paper considers the application of deposit modeling within archaeological projects, summarizing the results of a Historic England funded project aimed at developing “good practice” for the application of these techniques within terrestrial environments. It provides an overview of what deposit modeling is, the environments where it can be used and the methods most commonly used. The paper identifies a series of issues and challenges in using …
Protecting the Historic Environment from Inland Flooding in the UK
The impacts of both summer and winter flooding have been acutely felt across the inland areas of the UK over the last decade and under scenarios of future climate change, such events are likely to become more commonplace. Whilst significant emphasis is inevitably placed during such emergencies on securing basic major infrastructure (transport, power and water), there is also a need to consider how best to protect the Historic Environment. A recen…
The Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change on the Historic Environment
New Approaches to Mapping and Managing Palaeochannel Resources in the Light of Future Environmental Change
Abandoned river channels may provide rich primary sources of palaeoenvironmental and cultural information elucidating landscape evolution, climate change, vegetation history and human impact, especially since the beginning of the Holocene epoch. However, although potentially an important resource, palaeochannels are not often recorded systematically and only rarely enjoy robust statutory protection (in the UK as Sites of Special Scientific Intere…
Using geoarchaeological deposit modelling as a framework for archaeological evaluation and mitigation in alluvial environments
Down By the River
Industrial mining heritage and the legacy of environmental pollution in the Derbyshire Derwent catchment
Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK
Preserving the Legacy of Historic Metal-Mining Industries in Light of the Water Framework Directive and Future Environmental Change in Mainland Britain
Contemporary global metal mining is a source of environmental pollution, but in Britain it is our historic mining industry that has left a legacy of contamination in the landscape, around both the immediate mine sites as well as within the river valley floors that drain these orefields. It has been estimated that the levels of lead and zinc stored within some northern British river systems represent values comparable to present-day reserves of ec…
Geoarchaeological records in temperate European river valleys
Where earth scientists meet Cleopatra
Time and a Place
The capacity to conceptualise and measure time is amongst the most important achievements of human societies, and the issue of when time was “created” by humankind is critical in understanding how society has developed. A pit structure, discovered in Aberdeenshire (Scotland), and dated to the 8th millennium BC, has been re-analysed and appears to demonstrate a basic calendrical function and provides an intriguing contribution to this debate. The …
Managing global heritage in the face of future climate change
It is now widely acknowledged that human adaptation of the planet is causing significant changes to the global climate, which are being felt currently and are likely to increase in the future. This is beginning to place exceptional strains on the historic environment, here defined as both above and below ground archaeological remains. Using examples from the cultural list of World Heritage Sites in mainland Britain, this paper explores how knowle…
Delivering the Benefits of Aggregates Levy Sustainability Funded Research on River Valley Archaeological Sites in the Severn-Wye Catchment, UK
The recently published Mineral Extraction and Archaeology: A Practice Guide (English Heritage, 2008) identifies the use of geomorphological mapping and specialist remote sensing technologies allied to other techniques as important tools for use in the investigation of deeply buried archaeological sites. Such approaches are particularly valuable within environments like river valleys where prospection is particularly difficult due to the masking e…
Airborne lidar intensity and geoarchaeological prospection in river valley floors
Archaeological applications of airborne lidar topographic data are now well known and documented in the academic literature. Rather less well explored by archaeologists are the potential of lidar intensity data. In this paper we explore the application of lidar intensity for geoarchaeological prospection in river valley floors. After briefly considering the context of archaeological remote sensing in river valleys, we examine some factors influen…
Beccles Triple Post Alignment, Beccles Marshes, Suffolk
This paper describes the results of two seasons of excavation and associated palaeoenvironmental analyses of a wetland site on Beccles Marshes, Beccles, Suffolk. The site has been identified as a triple post alignment of oak timbers (0.6–2.0 m long), over 100 m in length, and 3–4 m wide, running north-west to south-east towards the River Waveney. It was constructed in a single phase which has been dated dendrochronologically to 75 BC, although di…
Environmental reconstruction of a later prehistoric palaeochannel record from Burrs Countryside Park, Bury, Greater Manchester
The results from an analysis of pollen, insect and plant macrofossil remains from the shallow wood peat fill of a palaeochannel associated with hummocky (deglacial) sediments infilling the valley of the River Irwell at Walmersley known locally as Burrs Countryside Park, Bury, Greater Manchester (NGR SD 796 127) are presented. Radiocarbon dates from the deposit provide an age range from 1310 to 1040 cal. BC to 920 to 800 cal. BC. The environmental…
A new approach to recording and monitoring wet-preserved archaeological wood using three-dimensional laser scanning
Assessing the preservation potential of temperate, lowland alluvial sediments using airborne lidar intensity
Airborne remote sensing of valley floor geoarchaeology using Daedalus ATM and Casi
This paper investigates the potential of multispectral methods of airborne remote sensing for geological and archaeological prospection in river valleys, specifically the archaeologically rich, well‐documented aggregate landscape of the middle Trent Valley in the East Midlands of England. The paper reviews the systematic examination of Daedalus 1268 Airborne Thematic Mapper (ATM) and Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) multispectral dat…
A new approach to recording and monitoring wet-preserved archaeological wood using three-dimensional laser scanning
Fluvial sediments, correlations and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Airborne lidar intensity and geoarchaeological prospection in river valley floors
Archaeological applications of airborne lidar topographic data are now well known and documented in the academic literature. Rather less well explored by archaeologists are the potential of lidar intensity data. In this paper we explore the application of lidar intensity for geoarchaeological prospection in river valley floors. After briefly considering the context of archaeological remote sensing in river valleys, we examine some factors influen…
Time and a Place
The capacity to conceptualise and measure time is amongst the most important achievements of human societies, and the issue of when time was “created” by humankind is critical in understanding how society has developed. A pit structure, discovered in Aberdeenshire (Scotland), and dated to the 8th millennium BC, has been re-analysed and appears to demonstrate a basic calendrical function and provides an intriguing contribution to this debate. The …
Predictive modelling of multiperiod geoarchaeological resources at a river confluence
This research project developed a terrace sequence model of alluvial landscape development to aid the management of the geoarchaeological resource within a temperate valley floor threatened by aggregate extraction. The model was created using the remote sensing techniques of light detection and ranging (lidar) and ground-penetrating radar (GPR), dovetailed with other archaeological and geological data sets within a geographical information system…
Identifying changing fluvial conditions in low gradient alluvial archaeological landscapes
Airborne lidar and historic environment records
The authors assess the potential contribution of lidar surveys to national inventories of archaeological resources ('Historic Environment Records'), and compare the relative costs and sensitivity of lidar and aerial photography
Assessing the preservation potential of temperate, lowland alluvial sediments using airborne lidar intensity
Modelling geoarchaeological resources in temperate alluvial environments
Temperate river systems cover large regions of the earth's surface and provide challenging environments for the detection of archaeological remains. The deposition of alluvium above, and interbedded with, archaeological deposits means conventional forms of archaeological prospection such as geophysical survey or aerial photography are often ineffective. Consequently, archaeologists have turned to the construction of deposit models to evaluate the…
Deposit modeling for archaeological projects
This paper considers the application of deposit modeling within archaeological projects, summarizing the results of a Historic England funded project aimed at developing “good practice” for the application of these techniques within terrestrial environments. It provides an overview of what deposit modeling is, the environments where it can be used and the methods most commonly used. The paper identifies a series of issues and challenges in using …
A generic geomorphological approach to archaeological interpretation and prospection in British river valleys
Landscape archaeology depends greatly on the nature of the underlying physical landscape, and an understanding of its formation processes and change. We are pleased to publish this contribution on the Holocene river valleys of Britain, which provides important guidance on the integration of archaeological and geomorphological evidence, in building models for assessing potential archaeological preservation and erosion
Lidar visualization techniques for the construction of geoarchaeological deposit models
Lidar has become an essential tool for the mapping and interpretation of natural and archaeological features within the landscape. It is also increasingly integrated and visualized within geoarchaeological deposit models, providing valuable topographic and stratigraphic control from the contemporary ground surface downwards. However, there is a wide range of methods available for the visualization of lidar elevation models and a review of existin…
Environmental Archaeology, Progress and Challenges
This article explores how the discipline of environmental archaeology has fared over the past 15 years, reflecting on several themes considered by authors in Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose (Albarella 2001). Within this timeframe, two significant factors shaping the health of the discipline, namely government research audits and the commercialisation of environmental archaeology, have remained as constant drivers; therefore it migh…
Using geoarchaeological deposit modelling as a framework for archaeological evaluation and mitigation in alluvial environments
Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK
Where earth scientists meet Cleopatra
The contribution of geoarchaeology to understanding the environmental history and archaeological resources of the Trent Valley, U.K
This paper provides a review of the contribution that geoarchaeological research has played in elucidating the landscape history of the Trent Valley, U.K. Ameliorating climate in the immediate postglacial led to the expansion of mixed deciduous woodland across the valley floor and the development of an anastomosing channel. In the Lower Trent, fluvial and vegetation development may have been influenced by sea‐level change. Around 4000 B.C., the c…
Managing global heritage in the face of future climate change
It is now widely acknowledged that human adaptation of the planet is causing significant changes to the global climate, which are being felt currently and are likely to increase in the future. This is beginning to place exceptional strains on the historic environment, here defined as both above and below ground archaeological remains. Using examples from the cultural list of World Heritage Sites in mainland Britain, this paper explores how knowle…
Archaeological resource modelling in temperate river valleys
Methods for mapping and determining the condition of archaeological resources while they are still underground have been in development for nearly half a century. The authors here offer an example from the frontiers of the art: the application of a package of remote sensing procedures not only designed to locate sites but to model the valley deposits which contain and cover them. The variation in success of different methods in different deposits…
Alluvial landscapes in the temperate Balkan Neolithic
This paper focuses on the 5th-millennium BC shift from short-term habitations to permanent tell settlements in southern Romania: from the Criş, Dudeşti and Boian to the Gumelniţa Cultures. Archaeological and geomorphologic data suggest that changes in river stability conditioned shifts in settlement and economies
Assessing the later prehistoric environmental archaeology and landscape development of the Cetina Valley, Croatia
This paper describes preliminary work on the environmental and archaeological potential of the Cetina River Valley, Croatia. Two seasons of fieldwork and assessment have suggested that the valley contains a preserved landscape, much of which is waterlogged. It is clear that there is the potential to address many local and regional questions concerning land use, subsistence and environmental change in an area where previously only limited environm…
A generic geomorphological approach to archaeological interpretation and prospection in British river valleys
Landscape archaeology depends greatly on the nature of the underlying physical landscape, and an understanding of its formation processes and change. We are pleased to publish this contribution on the Holocene river valleys of Britain, which provides important guidance on the integration of archaeological and geomorphological evidence, in building models for assessing potential archaeological preservation and erosion
Geoarchaeology
Alluvial landscapes in the temperate Balkan Neolithic
This paper focuses on the 5th-millennium BC shift from short-term habitations to permanent tell settlements in southern Romania: from the Criş, Dudeşti and Boian to the Gumelniţa Cultures. Archaeological and geomorphologic data suggest that changes in river stability conditioned shifts in settlement and economies
Identifying changing fluvial conditions in low gradient alluvial archaeological landscapes
The contribution of geoarchaeology to understanding the environmental history and archaeological resources of the Trent Valley, U.K
This paper provides a review of the contribution that geoarchaeological research has played in elucidating the landscape history of the Trent Valley, U.K. Ameliorating climate in the immediate postglacial led to the expansion of mixed deciduous woodland across the valley floor and the development of an anastomosing channel. In the Lower Trent, fluvial and vegetation development may have been influenced by sea‐level change. Around 4000 B.C., the c…
A review of trends within archaeological remote sensing in alluvial environments
Archaeological remote sensing encompasses a broad range of techniques from conventional aerial photography, passive and active airborne and satellite remote sensing to ground-based geophysical surveys. The aim of this paper is to review the present trends in the application of remote sensing within alluvial geoarchaeology. A number of broad themes emerge reflecting a hierarchy based on the view of alluvial environments within the earth sciences, …
Assessing the later prehistoric environmental archaeology and landscape development of the Cetina Valley, Croatia
This paper describes preliminary work on the environmental and archaeological potential of the Cetina River Valley, Croatia. Two seasons of fieldwork and assessment have suggested that the valley contains a preserved landscape, much of which is waterlogged. It is clear that there is the potential to address many local and regional questions concerning land use, subsistence and environmental change in an area where previously only limited environm…
Predictive modelling of multiperiod geoarchaeological resources at a river confluence
This research project developed a terrace sequence model of alluvial landscape development to aid the management of the geoarchaeological resource within a temperate valley floor threatened by aggregate extraction. The model was created using the remote sensing techniques of light detection and ranging (lidar) and ground-penetrating radar (GPR), dovetailed with other archaeological and geological data sets within a geographical information system…
Modelling selected implications of potential future climate change on the archaeological resource of river catchments
This paper outlines the use of geographical information systems for predicting the possible implications of future climate change (as suggested by General Circulation Models) on the archaeological resource of selected parts of two major British river systems, the Trent and Yorkshire Ouse. The effects of future climatic change on the historic environment are likely to come from both natural 'system' responses, such as increased bank erosion and va…
Airborne remote sensing of valley floor geoarchaeology using Daedalus ATM and Casi
This paper investigates the potential of multispectral methods of airborne remote sensing for geological and archaeological prospection in river valleys, specifically the archaeologically rich, well‐documented aggregate landscape of the middle Trent Valley in the East Midlands of England. The paper reviews the systematic examination of Daedalus 1268 Airborne Thematic Mapper (ATM) and Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) multispectral dat…
Archaeological resource modelling in temperate river valleys
Methods for mapping and determining the condition of archaeological resources while they are still underground have been in development for nearly half a century. The authors here offer an example from the frontiers of the art: the application of a package of remote sensing procedures not only designed to locate sites but to model the valley deposits which contain and cover them. The variation in success of different methods in different deposits…
Airborne lidar and historic environment records
The authors assess the potential contribution of lidar surveys to national inventories of archaeological resources ('Historic Environment Records'), and compare the relative costs and sensitivity of lidar and aerial photography
Changing perspectives on the city of Cyrene, Libya
Cyrene, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) in eastern modern Libya, was the leading city of the Libyan Pentapolis. Settled by Greek colonists toward the end of the 7th century B.C., it remained an active Graeco-Roman city of distinctively Hellenic character until the time of the Islamic conquest (A.D. 643). Archaeological missions from America, Italy, and the United Kingdom have excavated in Cyrene for more than a century. As a result …
Fluvial sediments, correlations and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Environmental reconstruction of a later prehistoric palaeochannel record from Burrs Countryside Park, Bury, Greater Manchester
The results from an analysis of pollen, insect and plant macrofossil remains from the shallow wood peat fill of a palaeochannel associated with hummocky (deglacial) sediments infilling the valley of the River Irwell at Walmersley known locally as Burrs Countryside Park, Bury, Greater Manchester (NGR SD 796 127) are presented. Radiocarbon dates from the deposit provide an age range from 1310 to 1040 cal. BC to 920 to 800 cal. BC. The environmental…
A new approach to recording and monitoring wet-preserved archaeological wood using three-dimensional laser scanning
Assessing the preservation potential of temperate, lowland alluvial sediments using airborne lidar intensity
Airborne lidar intensity and geoarchaeological prospection in river valley floors
Archaeological applications of airborne lidar topographic data are now well known and documented in the academic literature. Rather less well explored by archaeologists are the potential of lidar intensity data. In this paper we explore the application of lidar intensity for geoarchaeological prospection in river valley floors. After briefly considering the context of archaeological remote sensing in river valleys, we examine some factors influen…
Beccles Triple Post Alignment, Beccles Marshes, Suffolk
This paper describes the results of two seasons of excavation and associated palaeoenvironmental analyses of a wetland site on Beccles Marshes, Beccles, Suffolk. The site has been identified as a triple post alignment of oak timbers (0.6–2.0 m long), over 100 m in length, and 3–4 m wide, running north-west to south-east towards the River Waveney. It was constructed in a single phase which has been dated dendrochronologically to 75 BC, although di…
Delivering the Benefits of Aggregates Levy Sustainability Funded Research on River Valley Archaeological Sites in the Severn-Wye Catchment, UK
The recently published Mineral Extraction and Archaeology: A Practice Guide (English Heritage, 2008) identifies the use of geomorphological mapping and specialist remote sensing technologies allied to other techniques as important tools for use in the investigation of deeply buried archaeological sites. Such approaches are particularly valuable within environments like river valleys where prospection is particularly difficult due to the masking e…
Time and a Place
The capacity to conceptualise and measure time is amongst the most important achievements of human societies, and the issue of when time was “created” by humankind is critical in understanding how society has developed. A pit structure, discovered in Aberdeenshire (Scotland), and dated to the 8th millennium BC, has been re-analysed and appears to demonstrate a basic calendrical function and provides an intriguing contribution to this debate. The …
Managing global heritage in the face of future climate change
It is now widely acknowledged that human adaptation of the planet is causing significant changes to the global climate, which are being felt currently and are likely to increase in the future. This is beginning to place exceptional strains on the historic environment, here defined as both above and below ground archaeological remains. Using examples from the cultural list of World Heritage Sites in mainland Britain, this paper explores how knowle…
Preserving the Legacy of Historic Metal-Mining Industries in Light of the Water Framework Directive and Future Environmental Change in Mainland Britain
Contemporary global metal mining is a source of environmental pollution, but in Britain it is our historic mining industry that has left a legacy of contamination in the landscape, around both the immediate mine sites as well as within the river valley floors that drain these orefields. It has been estimated that the levels of lead and zinc stored within some northern British river systems represent values comparable to present-day reserves of ec…
Geoarchaeological records in temperate European river valleys
Where earth scientists meet Cleopatra
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