Aaron P Potito
Biographic Data
| ID | 163325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron P Potito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron P |
| FAMILY NAME | Potito |
| SIGNATURE | POTITO A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0194-9552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prehistoric Landscape Change Around the Sources of Stonehenge’s Bluestones in Preseli, Wales
Prehistoric Farming Impacts and Erosion Revealed Through a Palaeolimnological Investigation of Lough Inchiquin, Co. Clare, Western Ireland
This paper presents the results of a multi-proxy, palaeolimnological investigation of Lough Inchiquin, a large lake located immediately south of the Burren, a distinctive karst landscape in Co Clare, western Ireland which has been exploited since the Neolithic period. Chironomid sub-fossil analysis and lake sediment geochemistry provides an opportunity to infer lake response to prehistoric farming activity. The results of these new analyses are c…
Tracing environmental, climatic and social change in Neolithic Ireland
This paper reviews archaeological and palaeoecological evidence for environments and climate in Neolithic Ireland (4000–2500 BC) and considers their complex relationships with contemporary social change. The introduction of farming into Ireland fundamentally changed how society was organised and the environments in which people lived. It is not yet clear if climatic change played a role in the initial uptake of farming during the Early Neolithic …
New insights into Late Bronze Age settlement and farming activity in the southern Burren, western Ireland
Mid-Late Holocene Vegetational History and Land-Use Dynamics in County Monaghan, Northeastern Ireland-The Palynological Record of Lough Muckno
We conducted high-resolution palynological analysis on a sediment core obtained from Lough Muckno, County Monaghan, Ireland. The results presented represent the first paleoecological account of Mid-Late Holocene vegetational change and land-use dynamics in the study region. Human activity and agriculture is first recorded during the Early Neolithic (ca. 3870–3500 B.C.). After a period of undiscernible human activity of ∼900 years, farming resumes…
Response of chironomids to Neolithic land-use change in north-west Ireland
This study provides the first decadally resolved chironomid and organic geochemistry record of the Irish Neolithic from a small lake adjacent to the Carrowkeel-Keshcorran complex in County Sligo, Ireland. Chironomid (non-biting midge fly) sub-fossils and lake sediment geochemistry (δ 13 C, δ 15 N and C:N) from the Templevanny Lough core were used to assess the timing and magnitude of within-lake responses to Neolithic farming activity. When compa…
Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland
Global Issues
Evidence of temperature depression and hydrological variations in the eastern Sierra Nevada during the Younger Dryas Stade
Sediment records from two lakes in the east-central Sierra Nevada, California, provide evidence of cooling and hydrological shifts during the Younger Dryas stade (YD; ~ 12,900–11,500 cal yr BP). A chironomid transfer function suggests that lake-water temperatures were depressed by 2°C to 4°C relative to maximum temperatures during the preceding Bølling–Allerød interstade (BA; ~ 14,500–12,900 cal yr BP). Diatom and stable isotope records suggest d…
A late Quaternary chironomid-inferred temperature record from the Sierra Nevada, California, with connections to northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures
Chironomid remains from a mid-elevation lake in the Sierra Nevada, California, were used to estimate quantitative summer surface water temperatures during the past ∼15,000 yr. Reconstructed temperatures increased by ∼3°C between lake initiation and the onset of the Holocene at ∼10,600 cal yr BP (calibrated years before present). Temperatures peaked at 6500 cal yr BP, displayed high variability from 6500 to 3500 cal yr BP, and stabilized after 350…
Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland
New insights into Late Bronze Age settlement and farming activity in the southern Burren, western Ireland
Mid-Late Holocene Vegetational History and Land-Use Dynamics in County Monaghan, Northeastern Ireland-The Palynological Record of Lough Muckno
We conducted high-resolution palynological analysis on a sediment core obtained from Lough Muckno, County Monaghan, Ireland. The results presented represent the first paleoecological account of Mid-Late Holocene vegetational change and land-use dynamics in the study region. Human activity and agriculture is first recorded during the Early Neolithic (ca. 3870–3500 B.C.). After a period of undiscernible human activity of ∼900 years, farming resumes…
Response of chironomids to Neolithic land-use change in north-west Ireland
This study provides the first decadally resolved chironomid and organic geochemistry record of the Irish Neolithic from a small lake adjacent to the Carrowkeel-Keshcorran complex in County Sligo, Ireland. Chironomid (non-biting midge fly) sub-fossils and lake sediment geochemistry (δ 13 C, δ 15 N and C:N) from the Templevanny Lough core were used to assess the timing and magnitude of within-lake responses to Neolithic farming activity. When compa…
A late Quaternary chironomid-inferred temperature record from the Sierra Nevada, California, with connections to northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures
Chironomid remains from a mid-elevation lake in the Sierra Nevada, California, were used to estimate quantitative summer surface water temperatures during the past ∼15,000 yr. Reconstructed temperatures increased by ∼3°C between lake initiation and the onset of the Holocene at ∼10,600 cal yr BP (calibrated years before present). Temperatures peaked at 6500 cal yr BP, displayed high variability from 6500 to 3500 cal yr BP, and stabilized after 350…
Evidence of temperature depression and hydrological variations in the eastern Sierra Nevada during the Younger Dryas Stade
Sediment records from two lakes in the east-central Sierra Nevada, California, provide evidence of cooling and hydrological shifts during the Younger Dryas stade (YD; ~ 12,900–11,500 cal yr BP). A chironomid transfer function suggests that lake-water temperatures were depressed by 2°C to 4°C relative to maximum temperatures during the preceding Bølling–Allerød interstade (BA; ~ 14,500–12,900 cal yr BP). Diatom and stable isotope records suggest d…
Global Issues
Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland
Response of chironomids to Neolithic land-use change in north-west Ireland
This study provides the first decadally resolved chironomid and organic geochemistry record of the Irish Neolithic from a small lake adjacent to the Carrowkeel-Keshcorran complex in County Sligo, Ireland. Chironomid (non-biting midge fly) sub-fossils and lake sediment geochemistry (δ 13 C, δ 15 N and C:N) from the Templevanny Lough core were used to assess the timing and magnitude of within-lake responses to Neolithic farming activity. When compa…
Mid-Late Holocene Vegetational History and Land-Use Dynamics in County Monaghan, Northeastern Ireland-The Palynological Record of Lough Muckno
We conducted high-resolution palynological analysis on a sediment core obtained from Lough Muckno, County Monaghan, Ireland. The results presented represent the first paleoecological account of Mid-Late Holocene vegetational change and land-use dynamics in the study region. Human activity and agriculture is first recorded during the Early Neolithic (ca. 3870–3500 B.C.). After a period of undiscernible human activity of ∼900 years, farming resumes…
New insights into Late Bronze Age settlement and farming activity in the southern Burren, western Ireland
Tracing environmental, climatic and social change in Neolithic Ireland
This paper reviews archaeological and palaeoecological evidence for environments and climate in Neolithic Ireland (4000–2500 BC) and considers their complex relationships with contemporary social change. The introduction of farming into Ireland fundamentally changed how society was organised and the environments in which people lived. It is not yet clear if climatic change played a role in the initial uptake of farming during the Early Neolithic …
Prehistoric Farming Impacts and Erosion Revealed Through a Palaeolimnological Investigation of Lough Inchiquin, Co. Clare, Western Ireland
This paper presents the results of a multi-proxy, palaeolimnological investigation of Lough Inchiquin, a large lake located immediately south of the Burren, a distinctive karst landscape in Co Clare, western Ireland which has been exploited since the Neolithic period. Chironomid sub-fossil analysis and lake sediment geochemistry provides an opportunity to infer lake response to prehistoric farming activity. The results of these new analyses are c…
Prehistoric Landscape Change Around the Sources of Stonehenge’s Bluestones in Preseli, Wales
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Holocene (5 works) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (5 works) · Physical geography (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Prehistory (4 works)