Antony Brown

Datos Biográficos

ID3637035
NOMBREAntony Brown
NOMBRESAntony
APELLIDOBrown
FIRMABROWN A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Southampton
ORCID0000-0002-1990-4654
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS59
TOTAL DE CITAS215
TOTAL COMO AUTOR59
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1985
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H8

  • The Soil Erosion Paradox Re‐Examined

    Open AccessBen Pear, Emily Forster et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2026Referencias: 85

    Modern studies show that soil erosion results in a loss of ecosystem function, particularly fertility, and is a cause of declining agricultural yields. However, despite the well‐attested high rates of soil erosion across Roman and medieval Europe there appears to have been little or no soil‐associated decline in agricultural production—the soil erosion paradox. Small low‐slope erodible lowland catchments offer the opportunity to examine this ques…

  • Evidence of long-term woodland persistence despite prolonged anthropogenic stress

    Open AccessH Sellers, Juan Carlos Berrio et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2026Referencias: 40

    A multimillennial analysis of woodland ecosystems in the Leicestershire landscape (UK) shows significant anthropogenic stress over the last six millennia. We track these stresses using a combination of palynology and place-name evidence. We show a protracted period of deforestation from the Bronze Age (beginning ~4500 yr BP in Leicestershire), but the continuity of some woodland ecologies through to the present, with the managed re-establishment …

  • Magnetic survey of Māori stone row systems in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Open AccessKate Welham, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEArchéoSciences2025

    Highlights: Fluxgate magnetometry provides a detailed picture of Māori stone row systems, Enhanced magnetic readings from basaltic rock constituents

  • The Geoarchaeology of Agricultural Terraces in Europe

    Open AccessAntony Brown, Ben Pear et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Although the primary purpose of agricultural terracing can be assumed to be food production, it has been suggested that a secondary purpose was the control of soil erosion. In this paper, we explore this thesis with multi‐proxy data from the TerrACE project, which studied 20 sites in a latitudinal transect across Europe. These sites show that terrace construction was often related to previous slope instability or erosion and that terracing mainta…

  • SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps

    Open AccessScarlett Zetter, Sandra Garcés‐Pastor et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2024Referencias: 16

    The Eastern European Alps boasts highly biodiverse ecosystems and a rich archaeological history. However, there is limited research on the enduring impacts of historical climate change and human activities on plant biodiversity in this region. Using sedimentary ancient DNA, we reconstructed plant and animal dynamics from 8500 years before present (ka BP) around Großer Winterleitensee (Zirbitzkogel, Austria). Variable intensities of human activiti…

  • Lynchet-Type Terraces, Loess, and Agricultural Resilience on Chalk Landscapes in the UK and Belgium

    Open AccessBen Pear, Andreas Lang et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Archaeology2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 3

    Lynchets, often the defining component of historic agricultural landscapes in northern Europe, are generally associated with soft-limestone geologies and are particularly well developed on loess-mantled landscapes. To understand their formation and chronology, the authors present their geoarchaeological analyses of lynchet soils and loess deposits at Blick Mead and Charlton Forest in southern England, and Sint Martens-Voeren in Belgium. The lynch…

  • The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology

    Open AccessAntony Brown, A G Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2024Citada por: 5Referencias: 3

  • Sedimentary Ancient DNA Reveals Local Vegetation Changes Driven by Glacial Activity and Climate

    Open AccessLucas Elliott, Dilli P Rijal et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2023

    Disentangling the effects of glaciers and climate on vegetation is complicated by the confounding role that climate plays in both systems. We reconstructed changes in vegetation occurring over the Holocene at Jøkelvatnet, a lake located directly downstream from the Langfjordjøkel glacier in northern Norway. We used a sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) metabarcoding dataset of 38 samples from a lake sediment core spanning 10,400 years using primers…

  • Rapid laminated clastic alluviation associated with increased Little Ice Age flooding co-driven by climate variability and historic land-use in the middle Severn catchment, UK

    Open AccessBen Pear, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2023Citada por: 2Referencias: 9

    The analysis of exceptionally well-preserved visible clastic laminations in deep alluvial sediments at Kempsey, Worcestershire (UK), allows a new high-resolution analysis of late-Holocene flood-history in the largest UK catchment, as well as local human response. At the sample site over 4.5 m of sandy-silt overbank-alluvium accumulated on the floodplain and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of the upper 2.25 m demonstrates accretion …

  • Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England

    Open AccessAntony G Brown, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 33

    Terracing is found widely in the Mediterranean and in other hilly and mountainous regions of the world. Yet while archaeological attention to these 'mundane' landscape features has grown, they remain understudied, particularly in Northern Europe. Here, the authors present a multidisciplinary study of terraces in the Breamish Valley, Northumberland. The results date their construction to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, when they were built by cutt…

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

    Open AccessAntony G Brown, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 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…

  • Towards a Jōmon food database

    Open AccessAya Komatsu, Eric J Cooper et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2022Referencias: 39

    One of the most entrenched binary oppositions in archaeology and anthropology has been the agriculturalist vs hunter-gatherer-fisher dichotomy fuelling a debate that this paper tackles from the bottom-up by seeking to reconstruct full past diets. The Japanese prehistoric Jōmon cultures survived without fully-developed agriculture for more than 10,000 years. Here we compile a comprehensive, holistic database of archaeobotanical and archaeozoologic…

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity

    Open AccessEric Capo, Charline Giguet-Covex et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2021

    The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely applied nowadays, knowledge gaps remain in this field and there is therefore still research to be conducted to ensure the reliability of the sedimentary DNA signal. Building on the most recent literature and seven original case studies, we synthesize the state-of-the-art an…

  • Characterising life in settlements and structures

    Open AccessHelen Mackay, Kimberley Davies et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2020Citada por: 7Referencias: 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…

  • Early Medieval Place-Names and Riverine Flood Histories

    Open AccessBen Pear, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Archaeology2020Citada por: 7

    Environmental information from place-names has largely been overlooked by geoarchaeologists and fluvial geomorphologists in analyses of the depositional histories of rivers and floodplains. Here, new flood chronologies for the rivers Teme, Severn, and Wye are presented, modelled from stable river sections excavated at Broadwas, Buildwas, and Rotherwas. These are connected by the Old English term * wæsse , interpreted as ‘land by a meandering rive…

  • Landscape change in the Nile Delta during the fourth millennium BC

    Benjamin T Pennington, Penelope Wilson et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2020Citada por: 6Referencias: 35

    The role environmental change may have played at the dawn of Egyptian history has been overlooked in comparison with other periods. Natural landscape changes taking place in the Nile Delta are argued here to have been a facilitating factor allowing, and possibly stimulating, socioeconomic changes leading to the ‘Lower Egyptian – Naqada Transition’ (LE-NT, c. 3350 BC). In this context, the LE-NT may be understood in terms of regional elites using …

  • European agricultural terraces and lynchets

    Open AccessAntony Brown, Kevin Walsh et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2020Citada por: 13Referencias: 84

    Terraces are highly productive, culturally distinctive socioecological systems. Although they form part of time/place-specific debates, terraces per se have been neglected - fields on slopes or landscape elements. We argue that this is due to mapping and dating problems, and lack of artefacts/ecofacts. However, new techniques can overcome some of these constraints, allowing us to re-engage with theoretical debates around agricultural intensificat…

  • Holocene demographic fluctuations, climate and erosion in the Mediterranean

    Open AccessKevin Walsh, Jean-François Berger et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 11Referencias: 49

    As part of the Changing the Face of the Mediterranean Project, we consider how human pressure and concomitant erosion has affected a range of Mediterranean landscapes between the Neolithic and, in some cases, the post-medieval period. Part of this assessment comprises an investigation of relationships among palaeodemographic data, evidence for vegetation change and some consideration of rapid climate change events. The erosion data include recent…

  • Introduction — Human-environment interfaces

    Open AccessKevin Walsh, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Referencias: 11

  • Using geoarchaeological deposit modelling as a framework for archaeological evaluation and mitigation in alluvial environments

    Open AccessChris Carey, Andy J Howard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Citada por: 3Referencias: 26

  • Archaeology, hydrogeology and geomythology in the Stymphalos valley

    Open AccessKevin Walsh, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 22

  • Down by the river

    Open AccessAntony Brown, Tony BrownARTICLEJournal of Wetland Archaeology2017

    Down by the river: archaeology, palaeoenvironmental and geoarchaeoogical investigations of the Suffolk River Valleys." Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 17(1), pp. 75–76

  • Eels, Beavers, and Horses

    Antony G Brown, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2017Citada por: 1Referencias: 82

    This paper examines interactions between co-occupants of riverine niches in north-west Europe during the Late Upper Palaeolithic using both ecological and archaeological data. It is argued that consideration of both the Lateglacial record and autecology of eel, beaver and horse supports a reinterpretation of some famous but enigmatic panels of Magdalenian mobiliary art as representations of eel fishing, along with horse and beaver exploitation in…

  • Societal stability and environmental change

    Open AccessAntony Brown, Kevin WalshARTICLEGeoarchaeology2016Citada por: 7Referencias: 14

    This paper critically examines the soil exhaustion and societal collapse hypothesis both theoretically and empirically. The persistence of civilizations, especially in the Mediterranean, despite intensive and presumably erosive arable farming creates what is described here as the archaeology soil erosion paradox. This paper examines the data used to estimate past erosion and weathering rates before presenting case studies that engage with the the…

  • Geoarchaeology, Environment, and Societal Stability

    Open AccessCarlos E Cordova, Antony Brown et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 5