John E Whittaker

Biographic Data

ID5625897
NAMEJohn E Whittaker
GIVEN NAMESJohn E
FAMILY NAMEWhittaker
SIGNATUREWHITTAKER J E
AFFILIATIONSNatural History Museum
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS55
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • 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…

  • Mid-Late Quaternary Fluvial Archives near the Margin of the MIS 12 Glaciation in Southern East Anglia, UK

    Open AccessPeter Allen, Peter M Allen et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2022

    This paper presents an updated geological reconstruction of the Quaternary evolution of the River Thames at its downstream extremities, close to the North Sea coast, based on new data from multi-disciplinary and citizen-science sources. In this area, the interaction of the Thames with the MIS 12 (Anglian) glaciation is an important part of the Quaternary archive. The Anglian ice sheet, which reached parts of north and east London, was responsible…

  • Modelling Vegetation Cover and Wetland Expansion in the Lower Thames Valley, UK

    Phil Stastney, Rob Scaife et al.ARTICLELandscapes2021

    The interaction of ‘natural’ environmental processes and human activity in shaping landscapes is vividly illustrated in the Lower Thames Valley, UK. Through development-led (geo)archaeological investigations, intensifying redevelopment of this (currently) industrial landscape presents opportunities to gain long-term perspectives on these processes and to investigate the timing and extent of human impact on the environment in the past. This paper …

  • Modelling Prehistoric Topography and Vegetation in the Lower Thames Valley, UK

    Phil Stastney, Rob Scaife et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2021References: 14

    Multi-proxy investigations at 2 Pier Road, North Woolwich, London, UK, have revealed deposits spanning the Middle-Late Holocene from the late Mesolithic (c. 4360 cal BC) onwards. Pollen data show an Elm Decline at c. 4210–3950 cal BC followed by landnám clearances at c. 4210–3910 cal BC and c. 3710–3030 cal BC and the first appearance of cereal at c. 3540–3030 cal BC. These events are potentially contemporary with the construction of nearby Neoli…

  • The Norse Waterways of West Mainland Orkney, Scotland

    Open AccessRichard Bates, C Richard Bates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Wetland Archaeology2020Cited by: 1References: 5

    Norse place-names for farms, individual landscape features and general landscape areas are ubiquitous throughout the Orkney Islands. These have an origin during the mediaeval period AD790–1350 when Orkney was ruled by Scandinavian earls. The oldest referenced maps for the parish of Harray (West Mainland, Orkney) suggests that in the past significant waterways crossed wetlands extending between the Loch of Harray and Houseby in an area associated …

  • Report on Knapping Activities in America

    John Whittaker, John E WhittakerARTICLELithic Technology2012References: 1

    THE LAST TIME I demonstrated flintknapping and talked about the archaeology of stone tools to a grade school class, the teachers informed me that in their survey of “what I want to be when I grow up” the next week, a majority of students had decided to become archaeologists. God forbid! But at least they all know now that archaeologists study people, not dinosaurs. Anyone who can make “arrowheads” and other simple tools, play with the kind of sha…

  • Marine inundation

    Open AccessRichard I Macphail, Michael J Allen et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2010

  • Mixed method approaches to the investigation and mapping of buried Quaternary deposits

    Open AccessMartin Bates, Martin R Bates et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Prospection2007Cited by: 5References: 11

    The lower reaches of major river valleys usually present archaeologists with considerable problems where thick sequences of stratified alluvium bury archaeology. These situations are typical of the lower reaches of major river systems that are currently under intense pressure from urban development where the archaeological resource is consequently at risk. Here we demonstrate how mixed method approaches, utilizing a range of borehole methods, con…

  • Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at Elveden, Suffolk, UK

    Open AccessNick Ashton, Simon Lewis et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…2005Cited by: 49References: 13

    The Lower Palaeolithic site at Elveden, Suffolk, was the subject of new excavations from 1995–1999. Excavations around the edge and in the centre of the former clay-pit revealed sediments infilling a lake basin that had formed in Lowestoft till, overlying Chalk, the till being attributed to the Anglian glaciation (MIS 12). The lake sediments contain pollen that can be assigned to pollen zones HoI and HoIIa of the early Hoxnian (MIS 11). Overlying…

  • Hunting Squirrels in College Land

    Open AccessJohn Whittaker, John E WhittakerARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Cahiers de Micropaléontologie

    Open AccessJohn E WhittakerARTICLEJournal of Arid Environments1979