Graeme Whittington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Whittington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittington |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTINGTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Palaeoenvironments, the archaeological record and cereal pollen detection at Clickimin, Shetland, Scotland
The possible role of humans in the early stages of machair evolution
A copper flat axehead from Wester Cartmore Farm, Lochgelly, Fife
Records the find of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age artefact from a boggy glacial depression with disturbed organic deposits. Discusses the possibility that it may have votive significance but considers it unlikely based on an examination of palynological evidence
Landscape and environment in prehistoric West Mainland, Shetland
The archaeological landscape of Shetland's West Mainland is characterised by extensive field and settlement systems, dating back to Neolithic and Bronze Age times. Field walls, lynchets, houses, clearance and burial cairns survive as a result of burial beneath blanket peat and a lack of subsequent cultivation. The existence of peat, sub-peat soils and loch deposits has enabled pollen-analytical investigations of vegetational, environmental and la…
A 12 000-year record of environmental change in the Lomond Hills, Fife, Scotland
Excavation of a cairn at Cnip, Uig, Isle of Lewis
Palynology as a predictive tool in archaeology
Considers the depth and varied nature of palynological data and suggests its use to pose and isolate problems for archaeological investigation rather than be used only as a post-excavation study
The excavation and environmental investigation of a sub-peat stone bank near Loch Portain, North Uist, Outer Hebrides
Reports probing, excavation, microfossil analysis, and radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dates indicate construction in the first half of the first millennium BC. Pollen analysis revealed contemporary poor heath-grassland with no apparent arable farming. Microscopic charcoal evidence indicates burning activity in the second millennium BC
Palynological investigations at two Bronze Age burial sites in Fife
During excavation of Bronze Age cists, samples were obtained for pollen analysis. One cist, at Upper Kenly Farm, Kingsbarns, yielded no particularly informative pollen. Material from two cists at Dalgety Bay yielded very low concentrations of pollen from grass, plantain, and, probably, hazel, but high concentrations of meadowsweet pollen. Flowers of meadowsweet were probably deposited in these graves at the time of burial; their absence from the …
Vegetation change on Papa Stour, Shetland, Scotland
The first palynological and related sedimentological studies from Papa Stour, Shetland are presented and supplement the limited data available for the study of Holocene vegetation change from the Northern Isles of Scotland. Two pollen sites were located on an isthmus which has experienced the marked influences of waterlevel changes, inundation by blown shell sand, and probable grazing and arable activity. In spite of the unpromising, calcareous n…
Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant
Interst in the Roman incursions into Scotland has a long history and, despite the numerous works that have appeared on the subject, there is still no diminution in the appearance of new writings. Of considerable interest is the recent appearance of a paper by Hanson and Breeze which undertakes a critique of existing studies of Roman Scotland and the nature of the data on which they depend, while also suggesting lines along which future enquiry mi…
Male and Female Plant Selection in the Cultivation of Hemp, and Variations in Fossil Cannabis Pollen Representation
Historically, hemp has been an important economic crop, yet in the absence of deposited achenes or fibres, it is difficult to infer local hemp cultivation and/or on-site retting from variations in the values for Cannabis saliva pollen. From work in Finland, it has been suggested that lower Cannabis pollen percentages in some areas may be due to the practice of removing male hemp plants while weeding, and leaving the female plants which were appar…
Palynological Evidence for the Growing of Cannabis Sativa L. (hemp) in Medieval and Historical Scotland
Hemp has been exploited for its fibres since prehistoric times. For a number of areas in Britain and Continental Europe, palynological data have produced evidence of Cannabis growth and retting. The extent of its cultivation and utilization in Scotland has not, however, been the subject of previous investigation. Palynological studies in Scotland have generally taken place in highland or northern areas which were not favoured for intensive arable…
Problems in neolithic archaeology
Kilconquhar Loch, Fife
Investigations reveal the loch's origins as lying in human exploitation of peat deposits combined with extreme natural events which culminated during 1st millennium AD. Au (abr)
Flood-Plain Sedimentation in the Upper Axe Valley, Mendip, England
Peter Cundill, Graeme Whittington, Flood-Plain Sedimentation in the Upper Axe Valley, Mendip, England: A Comment, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1987), pp. 360-362
The excavation of a hut circle at Cùl a'Bhaile, Jura
Farmstead: multiperiod hut circle in enclosure, late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC
Excavation of a Neolithic farmstead at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney
Re-excavation of two stone-built houses and associated midden deposits identified a farming community of the later fourth millennium BC, attributable to the makers of Unstan ware, and yielded extensive information about the contemporary natural environment
An Historical Geography of Scotland
An Historical Geography of Scotland
Land and society in early Scotland
A palynological investigation of a second millennium BC bank-system in the black moss of Achnacree
Sources for Scottish historical geography. An introductory guide
The excavation of a late Neolithic henge-type enclosure at Balfarg, Markinch, Fife, Scotland, 1977-78
Upland Britain
The excavation of a late Neolithic henge-type enclosure at Balfarg, Markinch, Fife, Scotland, 1977-78
The making of the crofting community
Excavation of a Neolithic farmstead at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney
Re-excavation of two stone-built houses and associated midden deposits identified a farming community of the later fourth millennium BC, attributable to the makers of Unstan ware, and yielded extensive information about the contemporary natural environment
Palaeoenvironments, the archaeological record and cereal pollen detection at Clickimin, Shetland, Scotland
The possible role of humans in the early stages of machair evolution
Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh
N. P. Brooks, G. Whittington, Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh: The Example of St Andrews, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 2, No. 3, Change in the Town (1977), pp. 278-295
The excavation of a hut circle at Cùl a'Bhaile, Jura
Farmstead: multiperiod hut circle in enclosure, late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC
Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant
Interst in the Roman incursions into Scotland has a long history and, despite the numerous works that have appeared on the subject, there is still no diminution in the appearance of new writings. Of considerable interest is the recent appearance of a paper by Hanson and Breeze which undertakes a critique of existing studies of Roman Scotland and the nature of the data on which they depend, while also suggesting lines along which future enquiry mi…
A 12 000-year record of environmental change in the Lomond Hills, Fife, Scotland
Palynological investigations at two Bronze Age burial sites in Fife
During excavation of Bronze Age cists, samples were obtained for pollen analysis. One cist, at Upper Kenly Farm, Kingsbarns, yielded no particularly informative pollen. Material from two cists at Dalgety Bay yielded very low concentrations of pollen from grass, plantain, and, probably, hazel, but high concentrations of meadowsweet pollen. Flowers of meadowsweet were probably deposited in these graves at the time of burial; their absence from the …
Male and Female Plant Selection in the Cultivation of Hemp, and Variations in Fossil Cannabis Pollen Representation
Historically, hemp has been an important economic crop, yet in the absence of deposited achenes or fibres, it is difficult to infer local hemp cultivation and/or on-site retting from variations in the values for Cannabis saliva pollen. From work in Finland, it has been suggested that lower Cannabis pollen percentages in some areas may be due to the practice of removing male hemp plants while weeding, and leaving the female plants which were appar…
An Historical Geography of Scotland
Recent work on Coll and Skye
A copper flat axehead from Wester Cartmore Farm, Lochgelly, Fife
Records the find of a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age artefact from a boggy glacial depression with disturbed organic deposits. Discusses the possibility that it may have votive significance but considers it unlikely based on an examination of palynological evidence
Problems in neolithic archaeology
Scottish place-names
Tobacco production in the Eastern Province of Zambia
geologischen Grenzen des Kohlenreviers liegt, gehort er wegen seiner Sonderstellung zum sudlich anschlie fienden Wirtschaftsbereich des Vale of Glamorgan, in dem die neueingefiihrte Fertigwarenindustrie neben der schon vorhandenen Schwerindustrie ihren optima len Standort im ostlichen Siidwales fand. So tritt die Polaritat zwischen dem jungen, dynamischen Indu striegebiet an der Kiiste und dem alten seiner Exi stenzgrundlage weitgehend beraubten …
Some Effects on Zambia of Rhodesian Independence
The Imprint of Former Occupations and the Improver Movement on House Types in Fife
The Kingdom of Fife has a wide and all embracing bibliography but too little attention has been given to its lesser house types. Books devoted to the buildings and architecture of Fife have mostly been too concerned with the castles and ‘seats of nobility’ to examine the buildings which make up the majority of the towns, villages and steadings. Much of Fife's traditional domestic building has vanished, and is still vanishing, except where Preserv…
Towards urban development in Swaziland
A Prehistoric Field-Boundary From the Black Crofts, North Connel, Argyll
country where most of the surviving evidence is to be found, both as ditch-systems or lynchets and as small walled fields or enclosures, although recent work by the Archaeology Division, Ordnance Survey, is now redressing the regional imbalance An elaborate programme of research is currently being undertaken on the field-walls which have been discovered beneath the blanket peat in the west of Ireland(2), and it is the purpose of this note to make…
Descriptive list of plans in the Scottish Record Office, volume three
Scottish historical geography
Placenames and the settlement pattern of Dark Age Scotland
Continues an earlier study of pit placenames: their distribution in E Scotland is seen to correlate with the best agricultural land, and their suffixes with agricultural associations indicate that the Picts practised a mixed farming economy. The unit of land denoted by the pit element appears to have been variable but small. Dating evidence can be interpreted in two ways, one indicating the 9th and 10th centuries AD and the other pointing to an e…
Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh
N. P. Brooks, G. Whittington, Planning and Growth in the Medieval Scottish Burgh: The Example of St Andrews, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 2, No. 3, Change in the Town (1977), pp. 278-295
An historical atlas of Scotland c. 400–c. 1600
Scottish place-names
The making of the crofting community
Locational decision-making on a Scottish estate prior to enclosure
Recent work on Coll and Skye
A sub-peat dyke on Shurton Hill, Mainland, Shetland
Upland Britain
Sources for Scottish historical geography. An introductory guide
The excavation of a late Neolithic henge-type enclosure at Balfarg, Markinch, Fife, Scotland, 1977-78
Land and society in early Scotland
A palynological investigation of a second millennium BC bank-system in the black moss of Achnacree
Excavation of a Neolithic farmstead at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney
Re-excavation of two stone-built houses and associated midden deposits identified a farming community of the later fourth millennium BC, attributable to the makers of Unstan ware, and yielded extensive information about the contemporary natural environment
An Historical Geography of Scotland
An Historical Geography of Scotland
The excavation of a hut circle at Cùl a'Bhaile, Jura
Farmstead: multiperiod hut circle in enclosure, late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC
Kilconquhar Loch, Fife
Investigations reveal the loch's origins as lying in human exploitation of peat deposits combined with extreme natural events which culminated during 1st millennium AD. Au (abr)
Geography (35 works) · Archaeology (26 works) · History (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · History (17 works) · Geology (16 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Geology (10 works) · Pollen (10 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (10 works)