Neil Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3590273 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Roberts |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5538-8653 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 497 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Against Rome and Modernity
Research Review
BACKGROUND: Neuroimaging studies have identified brain structural and functional alterations in adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD); however, the results are inconsistent, and whether patients exhibit spatially convergent structural and functional brain abnormalities remains unclear. METHODS: We conducted voxel-wise meta-analysis of voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and resting-state functional studies, respectively, to identify regional…
Neural correlates of decision making and executive function in suicidal thoughts and behaviors
Our results suggest that dysregulated neural activity of the ACC is a key mechanism contributing to suicidal risk, with DM abnormalities playing a more central role than EF deficits. These findings highlight potential targets for interventions, such as cognitive-behavioral therapies focusing on DM and impulsivity, or targeting the shared brain region in the left ACC, which could reduce suicidal behavior. Addressing emotional regulation through mi…
The Justinianic Pandemic in the Iberian Peninsula
A mid-20th century stratigraphical Anthropocene is recognisable in the birth-area of the industrial revolution
The formalisation of the Anthropocene as a subdivision of the Geological Time Scale has been under debate. Its stratigraphic boundary has been proposed as a precise Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) in the mid-20th century, but it is part of an episode of human-induced changes to the Earth System that have unfolded over millennia. Here we attempt to identify stratigraphical patterns of the Anthropocene from a previously well stu…
Beyond Man
The Correlation of Reduced Fractional Anisotropy in the Cingulum With Suicide Risk in Bipolar Disorder
Objective: This study aims to investigate the significant alterations in brain white matter integrity in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) who had attempted suicide by applying a tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) approach with tensor-based spatial normalization. Methods: A TBSS approach with novel tensor-based registration was used to compare the white matter fractional anisotropy (FA) between 51 individuals with BD, of whom 19 had attem…
Long-Term Demographic Trends in Prehistoric Italy
The Italian peninsula offers an excellent case study within which to investigate long-term regional demographic trends and their response to climate fluctuations, especially given its diverse landscapes, latitudinal range and varied elevations. In the past two decades, summed probability distributions of calibrated radiocarbon dates have become an important method for inferring population dynamics in prehistory. Recent advances in this approach a…
Juxtaposition, Hemispheric Thought, and the Bounds of Political Theory
History meets palaeoscience
History and archaeology have a well-established engagement with issues of premodern societal development and the interaction between physical and cultural environments; together, they offer a holistic view that can generate insights into the nature of cultural resilience and adaptation, as well as responses to catastrophe. Grasping the challenges that climate change presents and evolving appropriate policies that promote and support mitigation an…
Soil erosion in East Africa
Implementation of socially acceptable and environmentally desirable solutions to soil erosion challenges is often limited by (1) fundamental gaps between the evidence bases of different disciplines and (2) an implementation gap between science-based recommendations, policy makers and practitioners. We present an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to support co-design of land management policy tailored to the needs of specific communities and …
Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin
Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin is an innovative study that distinguishes itself in an already saturated field of inquiry on the October 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, or as Clinton Hutton notes, the Morant "war" in the longtime parlance of the souls of Jamaican folk (p
Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia
In their own words
A Discussion of Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels' Democracy for Realists
Liberal democracy is often viewed by its supporters as a system of government that responds to the informed and rational preferences of the public organized as voters. And liberal democracy is often viewed by its critics as a system that fails to respond to the informed and rational preferences of its citizens. In this book Larry Bartels and Chris Achen draw on decades of research to argue that a “realistic” conception of democracy cannot be cent…
The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity
Climatic Changes and Their Impacts in the Mediterranean during the First Millennium AD
Many events and developments in human history have been suspected to be, at least partly, influenced by climate and environmental changes. In order to investigate climate impacts on societies, reliable palaeoclimatic data of adequate dating precision, resolution, spatial representativeness, and so on, are needed. This paper presents a survey and analysis of published palaeoclimatic data of the Mediterranean for the 1st millennium AD , and identif…
European summer temperatures since Roman times
The spatial context is criticalwhen assessing present-day climate anomalies, attributing them to potential forcings and making statements regarding their frequency and severity in a long-term perspective. Recent international initiatives have expanded the number of high-quality proxy-records and developed new statistical reconstruction methods. These advances allow more rigorous regional past temperature reconstructions and, in turn, the possibil…
Freedom as Marronage
Revisiting the Beyşehir Occupation Phase
The latter part of the Beyşehir Occupation Phase ( BOP ) corresponds in space and time to the Late Roman empire in the eastern Mediterranean. The emphasis on tree crops in pollen records, particularly olive trees, implies long-term investment, stable trade networks and regional economic integration. The onset of the BOP was time-transgressive, starting between the Bronze Age and Hellenistic times in different localities. During the mid 1st millen…
Vegetation and Land-Use Change in Northern Europe During Late Antiquity
This chapter presents an overview of land cover and land use change in northern Europe, particularly during Late Antiquity ( ca . 3rd–8th c. AD ) based on fossil pollen preserved in sediments. We have transformed fossil pollen datasets from 462 sites into eight major land-cover classes using the pseudobiomisation method ( PBM ). Through using pollen-vegetation evidence, we show that north-central Europe, lying outside the Roman frontier (the so-c…
Response Jimmy Casas Klausen’s review of Freedom as Marronage
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Where's the Geography department? The changing administrative place of Geography in UK higher education
This paper considers recent patterns of departmental change in the management of G eography in UK universities. It notes the increasingly multidisciplinary management of G eography since the mid‐1990s. Various measures of this trend are explored and discussed. The paper also considers the problematic accommodation of Geography within the faculty structures of institutions. These findings speak of a problematic identity for the discipline within t…
Student use of mobile devices in university lectures
Mobile devices are increasingly used by students in university lectures. This has resulted in controversy and the banning of mobile devices in some lectures. Although there has been some research into how students use laptop computers in lectures, there has been little investigation into the wider use of mobile devices. This study was designed to investigate which mobile devices students use, what they use them for and the duration of each activi…
We Who Are Dark
Political philosophy and its methods have become a crucial resource in critical Black Studies over the last twenty years. This is evident in the pioneering work of scholars like Kwame Anthony Appia
Climatic, vegetation and cultural change in the eastern Mediterranean during the mid-Holocene environmental transition
The eastern Mediterranean region witnessed changes in human culture of the highest importance between ~9000 and ~2500 cal. BP (7000—500 BC) and over the same time period was affected by very significant shifts in climate. Stable isotope data from lake and deep-sea sediment cores and from cave speleothems show an overall trend from a wetter to a drier climate during the mid Holocene. Superimposed on this trend were multicentennial oscillations in …
The tempo of Holocene climatic change in the eastern Mediterranean region
This study presents results from a multi-proxy analysis of cores taken in a crater-lake sequence from Eski Acigöl in centr-al Turkey which cover the period from pre-c. 16000 cal. yr BP to the present. The sediments comprise an upper unit of enerally non-laminated, banded to massive silts and peats of mid- to late-Holocene age, overlying a laminated unit of late-Pleistocene to early/mid-Holocenie age. The laminae, comprising mainly aragonite. amor…
The impact of the Neolithic agricultural transition in Britain
Diversity and Complexity in Early Farming Communities of Southwest Asia
Intensive but localized cultivation of cereal crops on alluvial wetlands is thought to have provided the ecological basis for the primary Neolithic settlement that spread across southwest Asia and southeast Europe. New excavations at Çatalhöyük provide an opportunity to test this horticultural model via multiple data sources. Geoarchaeological studies show that the main Neolithic occupation coincided with a period of active river alluviation. Mos…
The mid-Holocene climatic transition in the Mediterranean
In the Mediterranean there is often no clear time gap separating an early-Holocene period of nature-dominated environmental change from a human-dominated late-Holocene one. This mid-Holocene ‘mélange’ has been the subject of debates that have often been polarised between support for climatic causation and those favouring anthropogenic explanations for changes in vegetation, river flooding, wildfire regimes, etc. One way to shed light on the cause…
Holocene environment and settlement on the Çarşamba alluvial fan, south‐central Turkey
The four‐dimensional geomorphological history of the Çarşamba fan in the Konya Basin, Turkey, has been reconstructed as part of integrated field research into the relations between Holocene environments and settlement history within a spatially well defined alluvial landscape, ∼500 km 2 in extent. This has involved on‐ and offsite study of alluvial sequences linked to a systematic archaeological site survey of multiperiod settlement mounds and to…
Not the End of the World? Post-Classical Decline and Recovery in Rural Anatolia
Ecological Relations in Historical Times
Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)
A mid- to late-Holocene synthesis of fire activity from the Mediterranean basin explores the linkages among fire, climate variability and seasonality through several climatic and ecological transitions. Regional fire histories were created from 36 radiocarbon-dated sedimentary charcoal records, available from the Global Charcoal Database. During the mid-Holocene ‘Thermal Maximum’ around 7500—4500 cal. BP, charcoal records from the northern Medite…
Long-Term Demographic Trends in Prehistoric Italy
The Italian peninsula offers an excellent case study within which to investigate long-term regional demographic trends and their response to climate fluctuations, especially given its diverse landscapes, latitudinal range and varied elevations. In the past two decades, summed probability distributions of calibrated radiocarbon dates have become an important method for inferring population dynamics in prehistory. Recent advances in this approach a…
Is Neolithic land use correlated with demography? An evaluation of pollen-derived land cover and radiocarbon-inferred demographic change from Central Europe
The transformation of natural landscapes in Middle Europe began in the Neolithic as a result of the introduction of food-producing economies. This paper examines the relation between land-cover and demographic change in a regionally restricted case study. The study area is the Western Lake Constance area which has very detailed palynological as well as archaeological records. We compare land-cover change derived from nine pollen records using a p…
The Holocene
Tephrostratigraphy, chronology and climatic events of the Mediterranean basin during the Holocene
The identification and characterisation of high-frequency climatic changes during the Holocene requires natural archives with precise and accurate chronological control, which is usually difficult to achieve using only 14 C chronologies. The presence of time-spaced tephra beds in Quaternary Mediterranean successions represents an additional, independent tool for dating and correlating different sedimentary archives. These tephra layers are potent…
The Climate and Environment of Byzantine Anatolia
The integration of high-resolution archaeological, textual, and environmental data with longer-term, low-resolution data affords greater precision in identifying some of the causal relationships underlying societal change. Regional and microregional case studies about the Byzantine world-in particular, Anatolia, which for several centuries was the heart of that world-reveal many of the difficulties that researchers face when attempting to assess …
The history of mediterranean-type environments
This editorial introduction highlights four of the principal themes in late-Quaternary research on summer-dry, mediterranean-type environments: first, issues of historical biogeography, such as convergent evolution; second, the synchroneity of past climate change between and within different regions; third, how far mediterranean-type environments represent cultural constructs or pristine habitats; and, fourth, the environmental future of mediterr…
The Political Ecology of Dambo Soil and Water Resources in Zimbabwe
Current patterns of natural resource use in developing countries reflect both the structural demands of the national and international economy and local interactions between rural communities and their natural environments. The example of small-scale cultivation of Zimbabwe's dambo wetlands is used to show how political economy may be integrated with environment in studies of soil and water resource utilisation. Reference is made to the results o…
A pollen-based pseudobiomisation approach to anthropogenic land-cover change
The degree of anthropogenic modification of land cover through the mid to late Holocene is of significant interest for archaeologists, climate modellers and conservation ecologists, amongst others. Spatially extensive pollen data provide an appropriate resource for the reconstruction of land-cover change; however, traditional simple methods (e.g. the AP/NAP ratio) do not provide the degree of detail required for these user groups. A range of more…
Palaeoecological and archaeological evidence for human occupance in southwest Turkey
The mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean have a long history of human occupation and exploitation of the natural environment (Grenon, Batisse 1989; McNeil 1992). Whilst the reconstruction of vegetation and human-induced landscape change is primarily based upon pollen analysis and other palaeoecological methods, the history of human occupation relies heavily upon archaeology, including field survey information and excavation reports. Both palaeo…
Indian Summer Monsoon variations could have affected the early-Holocene woodland expansion in the Near East
Postglacial expansion of deciduous oak woodlands of the Zagros—Anti-Taurus Mountains, a major biome of the Near East, was delayed until the middle Holocene at ~6300 cal. yr BP. The current hypotheses explain this delay as a consequence of a regional aridity during the early Holocene, slow migration rates of forest trees, and/or a long history of land use and agro-pastoralism in this region. In the present paper, support is given to a hypothesis t…
Évolution de l'environnement en Anatolie de 20 000 à 6 000 BP
Anatolia is characterized by strong regional contrasts. Numerous sedimentary archives allow the reconstruction of its Quaternary environmental history. Formerly more extensive mountain glaciation is testimony to past changes in snow-line, although the glacial chronology remains to be established. In this review, we focus on two main palaeoclimatic archives ; firstly, pollen-based evidence of palaeo-vegetation, and secondly, fluctuations in the wa…
Late quaternary geomorphological change and the origins of agriculture in south central Turkey
This study investigates the relationship between environmental change and the origins of agriculture in the Near East, with special reference to the Konya and Beysehir‐Sušla Basins of south central Anatolia. The Konya Basin, now largely dry, was formerly occupied by an extensive lake, which last attained a high level between 23,000 and 17,000 years ago. It is concluded that there was only an indirect link between the drying up of the former Konya…
Where's the Geography department? The changing administrative place of Geography in UK higher education
This paper considers recent patterns of departmental change in the management of G eography in UK universities. It notes the increasingly multidisciplinary management of G eography since the mid‐1990s. Various measures of this trend are explored and discussed. The paper also considers the problematic accommodation of Geography within the faculty structures of institutions. These findings speak of a problematic identity for the discipline within t…
Did prehistoric landscape management retard the post-glacial spread of woodland in Southwest Asia
Pre-Bronze Age human impacts on the East Mediterranean environment have been hard to detect in pollen diagrams and other off-site contexts. New evidence shows that despite a relatively rapid post-glacial wetting-up of the climate, the re-advance of oak woodland across Southwest Asia was slow. Among the factors likely to have contributed to the apparent disjunction between climate and vegetation is Neolithic landscape management, particularly thro…
Selective Leaching of Shells for 14 C Dating
Although acid leaching of shell carbonates prior to 14 C assay is usually desirable, under some circumstances it can worsen contamination by preferentially dissolving unaltered shell and thus increasing the proportion of secondary carbonate. The risk can be eliminated by monitoring the progress of leaching with the help of microscopy and x-ray diffraction
The environmental impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera)
A tephra layer originating from the mid-second millennium BC (3300 14 C yr BP) ‘Minoan’ eruption of Santorini (or Thera) in the Aegean has been found in lake sediments at G6lhisar in southwest Turkey. Microstratigraphic analyses of tephra shard concentration (TSC), pollen, diatoms, sponge spicules and nonsiliceous microfossils in sediments from Gtlhisar permit the impact of this major volcanic eruption on terrestrial and aquatic biota to be inves…
The Location and Environment of Knossos
The site of Knossos was occupied more or less continuously from c. 6000 B.C. (earliest neolithic) until the Arab conquest in A.D. 828, a time-span which represents almost 70 per cent of the Holocene or post-glacial period. It therefore offers a rare opportunity for studying the longterm interaction between man and his environment at a single settlement site. At present there is insufficient data to allow comprehensive analysis of the evolution of…
A note on the geomorphological environment of Çatal Hüyük, Turkey
Age, Palaeoenvironments, and Climatic Significance of Late Pleistocene Konya Lake, Turkey
The Konya Basin, a closed depression at the southern margin of the Anatolian Plateau, contained a shallow but extensive lake during the late Quaternary. Nearshore sands and gravels containing Dreissena shells form prominent depositional terraces around the basin edges at elevations between 1005 and 1020 m, and the highest has been dated at more than 30,000 yr B.P. The last major phase of limnic sedimentation occurred between 23,000 and 17,000 yr …
Selective Leaching of Shells for 14 C Dating
Although acid leaching of shell carbonates prior to 14 C assay is usually desirable, under some circumstances it can worsen contamination by preferentially dissolving unaltered shell and thus increasing the proportion of secondary carbonate. The risk can be eliminated by monitoring the progress of leaching with the help of microscopy and x-ray diffraction
Ted Hughes and the Laureateship
A journey in the snow
Land Degradation and Society
African Environments and Resources
Late quaternary geomorphological change and the origins of agriculture in south central Turkey
This study investigates the relationship between environmental change and the origins of agriculture in the Near East, with special reference to the Konya and Beysehir‐Sušla Basins of south central Anatolia. The Konya Basin, now largely dry, was formerly occupied by an extensive lake, which last attained a high level between 23,000 and 17,000 years ago. It is concluded that there was only an indirect link between the drying up of the former Konya…
Ecology and Land Management in Amazonia
The Political Ecology of Dambo Soil and Water Resources in Zimbabwe
Current patterns of natural resource use in developing countries reflect both the structural demands of the national and international economy and local interactions between rural communities and their natural environments. The example of small-scale cultivation of Zimbabwe's dambo wetlands is used to show how political economy may be integrated with environment in studies of soil and water resource utilisation. Reference is made to the results o…
The Holocene
The Holocene
Global Environmental Change
Ice Age Earth
The human transformation of the Earth's surface
Évolution de l'environnement en Anatolie de 20 000 à 6 000 BP
Anatolia is characterized by strong regional contrasts. Numerous sedimentary archives allow the reconstruction of its Quaternary environmental history. Formerly more extensive mountain glaciation is testimony to past changes in snow-line, although the glacial chronology remains to be established. In this review, we focus on two main palaeoclimatic archives ; firstly, pollen-based evidence of palaeo-vegetation, and secondly, fluctuations in the wa…
Ecological Relations in Historical Times
Land-use history and sediment flux in a lowland lake catchment
Whole-basin sediment records have been used to investigate the impact of land-use change and catchment processes on sediment flux to Groby Pool, Leicestershire, UK, over the past c. 200 years. Estimates of sediment yields for the period ad 1945–1989 were calculated using dry mineral mass data from multiple cores. Up-core changes in loss-on-ignition values were used to correlate cores and these were tied to a master chronology based on 210 Pb and …
Palaeoecological and archaeological evidence for human occupance in southwest Turkey
The mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean have a long history of human occupation and exploitation of the natural environment (Grenon, Batisse 1989; McNeil 1992). Whilst the reconstruction of vegetation and human-induced landscape change is primarily based upon pollen analysis and other palaeoecological methods, the history of human occupation relies heavily upon archaeology, including field survey information and excavation reports. Both palaeo…
Holocene environmental change in southwest Turkey
The history of mediterranean-type environments
This editorial introduction highlights four of the principal themes in late-Quaternary research on summer-dry, mediterranean-type environments: first, issues of historical biogeography, such as convergent evolution; second, the synchroneity of past climate change between and within different regions; third, how far mediterranean-type environments represent cultural constructs or pristine habitats; and, fourth, the environmental future of mediterr…
The tempo of Holocene climatic change in the eastern Mediterranean region
This study presents results from a multi-proxy analysis of cores taken in a crater-lake sequence from Eski Acigöl in centr-al Turkey which cover the period from pre-c. 16000 cal. yr BP to the present. The sediments comprise an upper unit of enerally non-laminated, banded to massive silts and peats of mid- to late-Holocene age, overlying a laminated unit of late-Pleistocene to early/mid-Holocenie age. The laminae, comprising mainly aragonite. amor…
The environmental impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera)
A tephra layer originating from the mid-second millennium BC (3300 14 C yr BP) ‘Minoan’ eruption of Santorini (or Thera) in the Aegean has been found in lake sediments at G6lhisar in southwest Turkey. Microstratigraphic analyses of tephra shard concentration (TSC), pollen, diatoms, sponge spicules and nonsiliceous microfossils in sediments from Gtlhisar permit the impact of this major volcanic eruption on terrestrial and aquatic biota to be inves…
Did prehistoric landscape management retard the post-glacial spread of woodland in Southwest Asia
Pre-Bronze Age human impacts on the East Mediterranean environment have been hard to detect in pollen diagrams and other off-site contexts. New evidence shows that despite a relatively rapid post-glacial wetting-up of the climate, the re-advance of oak woodland across Southwest Asia was slow. Among the factors likely to have contributed to the apparent disjunction between climate and vegetation is Neolithic landscape management, particularly thro…
Geography (47 obras) · Archaeology (36 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (27 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (24 obras) · Physical geography (24 obras) · Geology (23 obras) · Ecology (22 obras) · Holocene (21 obras) · Climate change (18 obras) · History (18 obras)