Mark Pollard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3644500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Pollard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollard |
| SIGNATURE | POLLARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Seeing is believing
This research investigates the correlation between colour perception and the circulation of silver in China during the Ming (1368–1644 CE) and Qing (1644–1911 CE) dynasties. The primary aim is to deepen our understanding of how silver alloys were perceived and experienced in this historical context while also situating our study within the broader context of the global silver trade. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver possessed immense his…
FLAME‐D Database
This paper discusses the reorganisation of archaeometallurgical legacy data for future research. When archaeometallurgical research aims to answer questions that involve significant movements of raw material or metal objects, it needs to rely on large sets of data. These data are available but scattered across hundreds publications, where they are differently organised, based on the focus of the original papers. The FLAME‐D database aims to colle…
Synthesis of stable isotopic data for human bone collagen
Ancient China is one of the most important regions for the development of agriculture in human history, contributing the two key crops millet and rice. Meanwhile, it was closely connected to the wider Eurasian network, receiving wheat and barley from the West. Because of the large isotopic differences between C 3 and C 4 crops, we are able to track their changing importance in different regions of China and underlying connections to their cultura…
Reliability and validity of the Meaningfulness of Songwriting Scale with university students taking a popular songwriting class
Background: Songwriting is emerging as a popular activity for use in therapeutic contexts suggested. Our study tested the properties of the Meaningfulness of Songwriting Scale (MSS) with university students studying songwriting, to determine its validity and reliability in measuring the extent of meaning derived from the songwriting process. Method: Participants completed the MSS, Short State Flow Scale, and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale immediatel…
Decisive Evidence for Multidirectional Evolution of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa
Historical Accounts of Cobalt Ore Processing from the Kashan Mine, Iran
The cobalt mine of Qamsar, south-west of the city of Kashan in central Iran, has long been considered a prime source of cobalt ore from ancient times until the early twentieth century AD. A review of the known Persian and European historical accounts describing the deposit, its cobalt ores, and the technologies involved in the production of the blue pigment is presented here. The aim is to provide a comprehensive background against which to under…
Studies in Crime
More questions than answers
New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa
A Bayesian chronology for Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe is one of the most iconic sites in southern Africa and indeed the world, but like so many famous monuments it has suffered from the attention of early excavators who have destroyed key categories of evidence. Chronology is crucial to understanding the development of the various elements of Great Zimbabwe and its relationship to other important regional centres such as Mapungubwe. A number of radiocarbon dates are available, however…
Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards
Marked changes in human dispersal and development during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition have been attributed to massive volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using records of volcanic ash layers of the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption dated to ca. 40,000 y ago (40 ka B.P.). The distribution of the Campanian Ignimbrite has been enhanced by the discovery of cryptotephra deposits (volcanic ash layers t…
Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure on The Peak, near Birdlip, Gloucestershire
Surveys and excavations in 1980–1 confirmed Peak Camp as a Neolithic enclosure on a flat promontory of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the Severn Valley just 1 km south of Crickley Hill. Although heavily eroded by quarrying the site can be reconstructed as having two concentric arcs of boundary earthworks forming an oval plan which was probably open to the north where a steep natural slope defined the edge of the site. A section through the o…
Trade and Discovery
(1997). Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond. Edited by D. R. Hook and D. R. M. Gaimster. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 326-327
More questions than answers
New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa
Decisive Evidence for Multidirectional Evolution of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa
A Bayesian chronology for Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe is one of the most iconic sites in southern Africa and indeed the world, but like so many famous monuments it has suffered from the attention of early excavators who have destroyed key categories of evidence. Chronology is crucial to understanding the development of the various elements of Great Zimbabwe and its relationship to other important regional centres such as Mapungubwe. A number of radiocarbon dates are available, however…
Synthesis of stable isotopic data for human bone collagen
Ancient China is one of the most important regions for the development of agriculture in human history, contributing the two key crops millet and rice. Meanwhile, it was closely connected to the wider Eurasian network, receiving wheat and barley from the West. Because of the large isotopic differences between C 3 and C 4 crops, we are able to track their changing importance in different regions of China and underlying connections to their cultura…
Historical Accounts of Cobalt Ore Processing from the Kashan Mine, Iran
The cobalt mine of Qamsar, south-west of the city of Kashan in central Iran, has long been considered a prime source of cobalt ore from ancient times until the early twentieth century AD. A review of the known Persian and European historical accounts describing the deposit, its cobalt ores, and the technologies involved in the production of the blue pigment is presented here. The aim is to provide a comprehensive background against which to under…
Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure on The Peak, near Birdlip, Gloucestershire
Surveys and excavations in 1980–1 confirmed Peak Camp as a Neolithic enclosure on a flat promontory of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the Severn Valley just 1 km south of Crickley Hill. Although heavily eroded by quarrying the site can be reconstructed as having two concentric arcs of boundary earthworks forming an oval plan which was probably open to the north where a steep natural slope defined the edge of the site. A section through the o…
FLAME‐D Database
This paper discusses the reorganisation of archaeometallurgical legacy data for future research. When archaeometallurgical research aims to answer questions that involve significant movements of raw material or metal objects, it needs to rely on large sets of data. These data are available but scattered across hundreds publications, where they are differently organised, based on the focus of the original papers. The FLAME‐D database aims to colle…
Reliability and validity of the Meaningfulness of Songwriting Scale with university students taking a popular songwriting class
Background: Songwriting is emerging as a popular activity for use in therapeutic contexts suggested. Our study tested the properties of the Meaningfulness of Songwriting Scale (MSS) with university students studying songwriting, to determine its validity and reliability in measuring the extent of meaning derived from the songwriting process. Method: Participants completed the MSS, Short State Flow Scale, and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale immediatel…
Trade and Discovery
(1997). Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond. Edited by D. R. Hook and D. R. M. Gaimster. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 154, No. 1, pp. 326-327
Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure on The Peak, near Birdlip, Gloucestershire
Surveys and excavations in 1980–1 confirmed Peak Camp as a Neolithic enclosure on a flat promontory of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the Severn Valley just 1 km south of Crickley Hill. Although heavily eroded by quarrying the site can be reconstructed as having two concentric arcs of boundary earthworks forming an oval plan which was probably open to the north where a steep natural slope defined the edge of the site. A section through the o…
Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards
Marked changes in human dispersal and development during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition have been attributed to massive volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using records of volcanic ash layers of the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption dated to ca. 40,000 y ago (40 ka B.P.). The distribution of the Campanian Ignimbrite has been enhanced by the discovery of cryptotephra deposits (volcanic ash layers t…
Studies in Crime
More questions than answers
New Pathways of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa
A Bayesian chronology for Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe is one of the most iconic sites in southern Africa and indeed the world, but like so many famous monuments it has suffered from the attention of early excavators who have destroyed key categories of evidence. Chronology is crucial to understanding the development of the various elements of Great Zimbabwe and its relationship to other important regional centres such as Mapungubwe. A number of radiocarbon dates are available, however…
Historical Accounts of Cobalt Ore Processing from the Kashan Mine, Iran
The cobalt mine of Qamsar, south-west of the city of Kashan in central Iran, has long been considered a prime source of cobalt ore from ancient times until the early twentieth century AD. A review of the known Persian and European historical accounts describing the deposit, its cobalt ores, and the technologies involved in the production of the blue pigment is presented here. The aim is to provide a comprehensive background against which to under…
Reliability and validity of the Meaningfulness of Songwriting Scale with university students taking a popular songwriting class
Background: Songwriting is emerging as a popular activity for use in therapeutic contexts suggested. Our study tested the properties of the Meaningfulness of Songwriting Scale (MSS) with university students studying songwriting, to determine its validity and reliability in measuring the extent of meaning derived from the songwriting process. Method: Participants completed the MSS, Short State Flow Scale, and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale immediatel…
Decisive Evidence for Multidirectional Evolution of Sociopolitical Complexity in Southern Africa
Synthesis of stable isotopic data for human bone collagen
Ancient China is one of the most important regions for the development of agriculture in human history, contributing the two key crops millet and rice. Meanwhile, it was closely connected to the wider Eurasian network, receiving wheat and barley from the West. Because of the large isotopic differences between C 3 and C 4 crops, we are able to track their changing importance in different regions of China and underlying connections to their cultura…
FLAME‐D Database
This paper discusses the reorganisation of archaeometallurgical legacy data for future research. When archaeometallurgical research aims to answer questions that involve significant movements of raw material or metal objects, it needs to rely on large sets of data. These data are available but scattered across hundreds publications, where they are differently organised, based on the focus of the original papers. The FLAME‐D database aims to colle…
Seeing is believing
This research investigates the correlation between colour perception and the circulation of silver in China during the Ming (1368–1644 CE) and Qing (1644–1911 CE) dynasties. The primary aim is to deepen our understanding of how silver alloys were perceived and experienced in this historical context while also situating our study within the broader context of the global silver trade. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver possessed immense his…
Archaeology (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (3 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (3 works)