N Whitehouse

Biographic Data

ID2517825
NAMEN Whitehouse
GIVEN NAMESN
FAMILY NAMEWhitehouse
SIGNATUREWHITEHOUSE N
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University Belfast
ORCID0000-0002-7044-6492
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS191
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Reconstructing prehistoric land cover and landuse in complex ‘blue-green’ landscapes

    Open AccessKimberley L Davies, M Jane Bunting et al.ARTICLEVegetation History and…2026References: 8

    Environmental context is vital when analysing archaeological sites and interpreting past human activity. Pollen, being widely dispersed and readily preserved in wetland sediments, is frequently used to investigate past land cover, especially in wetland-rich ‘blue-green’ lowland landscapes (landscapes formed in locations where hydrology is an important determinant of natural vegetation, geomorphology and land use, such as river valleys and estuari…

  • A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK

    Open AccessDavid J Horne, Nick Ashton et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2023

    A terrestrial (lacustrine and fluvial) palaeoclimate record from Hoxne (Suffolk, UK) shows two temperate phases separated by a cold episode, correlated with MIS 11 subdivisions corresponding to isotopic events 11.3 (Hoxnian interglacial period), 11.24 (Stratum C cold interval), and 11.23 (warm interval with evidence of human presence). A robust, reproducible multiproxy consensus approach validates and combines quantitative palaeotemperature recon…

  • New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe

    Open AccessAntony G Brown, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2022Cited by: 1References: 25

    Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…

  • The organics revolution

    Open AccessPenny Johnston, Thomas J Booth et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2022Cited by: 4References: 79

    Organic remains from excavated sites include a wide range of materials, from distinct organisms (‘ecofacts’) to biomolecules. Biomolecules provide a variety of new research avenues, while ecofacts with longer histories of study are now being re-harnessed in unexpected ways. These resources are unlocking research potential, transcending what was previously imagined possible. However, this ‘organics revolution’ comes with a salutary corollary: our …

  • Characterising life in settlements and structures

    Open AccessHelen Mackay, Kimberley Davies et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Cited by: 7References: 14

    Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial analyses of steroid lipid biomarkers advances our understanding of household activities, living conditions and animal management associated with a well-preserved 5th century BCE roundhouse from Scotland's first Iron Age wetland village, Black Loch of Myrton, especially when c…

  • Food Production, Processing and Foodways in Neolithic Ireland

    Meriel Mcclatchie, R J Schulting et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2019Cited by: 2References: 16

    When compared with earlier periods, the Neolithic in Ireland (4000–2500 cal BC) witnessed enormous changes in the foods being produced, and the work involved in their production and processing. Several crops were introduced – archaeobotanical studies indicate that emmer wheat became the dominant crop, with evidence also for barley (hulled and naked) and flax. Gathered resources were not abandoned; on the contrary, there is substantial evidence fo…

  • Nasty, Brutish and Short?; The Life Cycle of an Iron Age Roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland

    Open AccessAnne Crone, Graeme Cavers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Wetland Archaeology2018Cited by: 5References: 2

    Excavations at Black Loch of Myrton, Dumfries & Galloway are revealing the very well-preserved remains of an Iron Age settlement, the wetland context ensuring that the timber structures have remained intact and that the detritus of daily occupation survives for us to pick apart and understand. One of the structures in this settlement is an exceptionally well-preserved roundhouse, the material remains of which have been subjected to a barrage of a…

  • Radiocarbon Dating of a Multi-phase Passage Tomb on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

    R J Schulting, Meriel Mcclatchie et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2017Cited by: 5References: 18

    Baltinglass is a multi-chamber Neolithic passage tomb in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, excavated in the 1930s. This paper presents the results of a radiocarbon dating programme on charred wheat grains and hazelnut shell found underlying the cairn, and on cremated human bone found within and near two of the monument’s five chambers. The results are surprising, in that three of the six determinations on calcined bone pre-date by one or two centuries the ch…

  • The Changing Face of Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland

    Open AccessT Rowan Mclaughlin, Nicki J Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEJournal of World Prehistory2016Cited by: 23References: 9

    This paper synthesizes and discusses the spatial and temporal patterns of archaeological sites in Ireland, spanning the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age transition (4300–1900 cal BC), in order to explore the timing and implications of the main changes that occurred in the archaeological record of that period. Large amounts of new data are sourced from unpublished developer-led excavations and combined with national archives, published excavati…

  • Resilience of small-scale societies' livelihoods

    Open AccessC Lancelotti, D Zurro et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2016Cited by: 2

    Lancelotti, C., D. Zurro, N. J. Whitehouse, K. L. Kramer, M. Madella, J. J. García-Granero, and R. D. Greaves. 2016. Resilience of small-scale societies’ livelihoods: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production. Ecology and Society 21(4):8.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08757-210408

  • Farming and foraging in Neolithic Ireland

    Open AccessMeriel Mcclatchie, Amy Bogaard et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2016Cited by: 3References: 22

  • G. Russell Coope

    Open AccessScott A Elia, Scott A Elias et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2014

  • A palaeoenvironmental context for Terminal Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic activity in the Colne Valley

    Michael Grant, Craig Stevens et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2014Cited by: 1References: 18

    Multi-proxy analyses from floodplain deposits in the Colne Valley, southern England, have provided a palaeoenvironmental context for the immediately adjacent Terminal Upper Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic site of Three Ways Wharf. These deposits show the transition from an open cool environment to fully developed heterogeneous floodplain vegetation during the Early Mesolithic. Several distinct phases of burning are shown to have occurred that a…

  • The world reshaped

    Open AccessNicki J Whitehouse, N Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2014Cited by: 10References: 30

  • Neolithic agriculture on the European western frontier

    Open AccessNicki J Whitehouse, N Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2013Cited by: 65References: 27

  • Neolithic farming in north-western Europe

    Open AccessMeriel Mcclatchie, Amy Bogaard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2012Cited by: 30References: 7

  • Early agriculture in uncertain climates

    Amy Bogaard, N WhitehouseARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2010Cited by: 1References: 10

    No abstract available

  • Can we characterise ‘openness’ in the Holocene palaeoenvironmental record? Modern analogue studies of insect faunas and pollen spectra from Dunham Massey deer park and Epping Forest, England

    Open AccessDavid Smith, N Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2009Cited by: 10References: 19

    This paper examines the degree to which tree-associated Coleoptera (beetles) and pollen could be used to predict the degree of ‘openness’ in woodland. The results from two modern insect and pollen analogue studies from ponds at Dunham Massey, Cheshire and Epping Forest, Greater London are presented. We explore the reliability of modern pollen rain and sub-fossil beetle assemblages to represent varying degrees of canopy cover for up to 1000 m from…

  • A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation of the findspot of an Iron Age bog body from Oldcroghan, Co. Offaly, Ireland

    Open AccessGill Plunkett, Nicki J Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2008Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Vegetation history at the multi-period prehistoric complex at Ballynahatty, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

    Open AccessGill Plunkett, Faye Carroll et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2007Cited by: 4References: 9

  • 'Islands' in Holocene Forests

    Nicki J Whitehouse, N Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2004

    Human activity has undoubtedly had a major impact on Holocene forested ecosystems, with the concurrent expansion of plants and animals associated with cleared landscapes and pasture, also known as 'culture-steppe'. However, this anthropogenic perspective may have underestimated the contribution of autogenic disturbance (e.g. wind-throw, fire), or a mixture of autogenic and anthropogenic processes, within early Holocene forests. Entomologists have…

  • Human Exploitation and Biota of Islands

    Nicki J Whitehouse, N Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2004References: 3

    No abstract available

  • Human Exploitation and Biota of Islands

    Nicki J Whitehouse, N Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2004References: 1

  • Islands' in Holocene Forests

    Nicki J Whitehouse, N Whitehouse et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2004References: 17

    Human activity has undoubtedly had a major impact on Holocene forested ecosystems, with the concurrent expansion of plants and animals associated with cleared landscapes and pasture, also known as 'culture-steppe'. However, this anthropogenic perspective may have underestimated the contribution of autogenic disturbance (e.g. wind-throw, fire), or a mixture of autogenic and anthropogenic processes, within early Holocene forests. Entomologists have…

  • Mire ontogeny, environmental and climatic change inferred from fossil beetle successions from Hatfield Moors, eastern England

    Open AccessNicki J Whitehouse, N WhitehouseARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 3References: 16

    Results of a fossil Coleoptera (beetle) fauna from a fen edge sequence from Hatfield Moors, Humber-head Levels, England, are presented. Mire ontogeny inferred from this location and others are discussed, particularly in the light of previous palynological and plant macrofossil investigations. Peat initiation across most of the site centres around 3000 cal. bc, characterized by a Calluna- Eriophorum heath with areas of PinusBetula woodland. The on…