A Bevan

Dados Biográficos

ID67974
NOMEA Bevan
PRENOMESA
SOBRENOMEBevan
ASSINATURABEVAN A
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0001-7967-3117
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS79
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES768
TOTAL COMO AUTOR79
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1996
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2027
ÍNDICE H16

  • Continuity and Discontinuity in Artefact Distributions from Multi-Period Archaeological Sites

    Open AccessEljas Oksanen, A Bevan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2027

    Artefact finds recovered by metal detecting and reported by members of the public are a growing source of archaeological information, with over 1.2 million finds recorded to date by the Portable Antiquities Scheme in England and Wales. Heritage schemes in many other European countries where hobby detecting for archaeology is legal likewise report growing numbers of finds. Using point pattern analysis, this paper presents a worked-out set of compu…

  • Aesthetics and technology

    Open AccessXiuzhen Li, A Bevan et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2026

    Among the many spectacular finds associated with the mausoleum of China's First Emperor (259–210 BCE), by far the most well-known are the life-sized clay soldiers known as the Terracotta Army. However, also widely depicted in popular portrayals, and extremely important scientifically are two intricately made, half-sized bronze models, of a lighter chariot and a heavier two-wheeled cart. Among the huge number of components brought together to make…

  • Frontier walls, labour energetics and Qin imperial collapse

    Open AccessZehao Li, G Fontana et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2025Referências: 3

  • Qin structural timbers and the First Emperor's Mausoleum (Xi'an, China)

    Open AccessYing Yang, D Q Fuller et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025

    Anthracological studies of preserved wooden building materials can help reveal ancient networks of resource mobilisation. Here, the authors report on the analysis of 657 charred timbers from four ancillary pits at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. The frequent use of dark coniferous wood (fir, spruce and hemlock) indicates sophisticated logistical planning and labour organisation-matching historic records o…

  • Sustaining attention in affective contexts during adolescence

    Open AccessDarren Dunning, Jenna Parker et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2024

    Sustained attention, a key cognitive skill that improves during childhood and adolescence, tends to be worse in some emotional and behavioural disorders. Sustained attention is typically studied in non-affective task contexts; here, we used a novel task to index performance in affective versus neutral contexts across adolescence (N = 465; ages 11–18). We asked whether: (i) performance would be worse in negative versus neutral task contexts; (ii) …

  • A Catalogue of British Bronze Age Axes, Including Basic Typology, Compositional Analyses and Associated Radiocarbon Dates

    Open AccessA Bevan, Peter Northover et al.ARTICLEJournal of Open Archaeology Data2024

    This archive lists ~8000 Bronze Age British axeheads, alongside associated compositional analyses, isotopic measurements and radiocarbon dates. It integrates several major existing data collection efforts and published catalogues, whilst also providing a self-consistent basic typology. It is archived as four related flat-sheet text files and could be reused to support quantitative assessment of geographic and temporal patterns in metalwork style,…

  • A spatial interaction model of Qin-Han Dynasty organisation on the northern frontier and the location of the Zhidao highway (China)

    Open AccessZehao Li, A BevanARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024Referências: 8

    Modeling Qin-Han sites to simulate Zhidao and its northern extension.Modeling Qin-Han Ssites to Simulate Zhidao and its Northern Extension. • The same model can be used to explore wider possible traffic flows in the region. • Evaluation of military strategy on the frontier during the Qin-Han period. • Emphasizing the role of Machi fort in transport and regional significance. Modelling pathways or traffic flows on the basis of only partially-prese…

  • Cereal Silo-pits, Agro-pastoral Practices and Social Organisation in 19th Century Algeria

    Open AccessA Bevan, B Cutler et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2024Citada por: 1Referências: 42

    Quantifiable, spatially-resolved, large-scale evidence about traditional food storage facilities is extremely rare, and yet highly insightful for researchers across subjects such as human ecology, anthropology, agronomy, archaeology and economic history. This paper takes advantage of some unusually detailed French colonial era records of cereal storage and agro-pastoral practice in 19th century central Algeria that inventory the underground food …

  • Geostatistical and geoarchaeological study of Holocene floodplains and site distributions on the Sha‐Ying River Basin, Central China

    Open AccessZhang Hai, Wei Li et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2023Citada por: 2Referências: 8

    Geostatistics has become a powerful method for investigating complex spatial variations of prehistoric settlements in floodplains and other geomorphological settings. A geoarchaeological drilling program that covers most of the Sha‐Ying River Basin provides a rare opportunity with unusually detailed environmental data to contest and develop the geostatistics method, which proves to be essential, in combination with archaeological data, to underst…

  • The Nerd Dataset

    Open AccessAlessio Palmisano, A Bevan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Open Archaeology Data2022

    To our knowledge, the dataset described in this paper represents the largest existing repository of uncalibrated radiocarbon dates for the whole Near East from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (15,000 – 1,500 cal. yr. BP). It is composed of 11,027 radiocarbon dates from 1,023 sites that have been collected comprehensively by cross-checking multiple sources (extant digital archives and databases, edited volumes, monographs, journals paper…

  • Inference From Large Sets of Radiocarbon Dates

    Open AccessEnrico R Crema, A BevanARTICLERadiocarbon2021Citada por: 49Referências: 50

    The last decade has seen the development of a range of new statistical and computational techniques for analysing large collections of radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates, often but not exclusively to make inferences about human population change in the past. Here we introduce rcarbon , an open-source software package for the R statistical computing language which implements many of these techniques and looks to foster transparent future study of their str…

  • Long-Term Demographic Trends in Prehistoric Italy

    Open AccessAlessio Palmisano, A Bevan et al.ARTICLEJournal of World Prehistory2021Citada por: 17Referências: 12

    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…

  • The MedAfriCarbon Radiocarbon Database and Web Application. Archaeological Dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC

    Open AccessGiulio Lucarini, Tim Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Open Archaeology Data2020

    The MedAfriCarbon radiocarbon database and its accompanying web application are outcomes of the MedAfrica project — Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC. The dataset presented here in Version 1.0 of the database includes 1587 archaeological 14C dates from 368 sites in Mediterranean Africa. The database is unusual because the majority of the dates within it have been annotated with further cultural and …

  • An Aegean History and Archaeology Written through Radiocarbon Dates

    Open AccessMarkos Katsianis, A Bevan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Open Archaeology Data2020

    This dataset is the outcome of an INSTAP-funded project “An Aegean Prehistory Written in Radiocarbon Dates”. It includes 3159 14C dates from 353 sites in Greece and reflects an attempt to exhaustively collect and cross-check all published radiocarbon dates from existing databases, original publications and preliminary reports using both international and Greek sources (376 sources in total). Although originally targeting prehistoric dates, all da…

  • A Stored-Products Revolution in the 1st Millennium BC

    Open AccessA BevanARTICLEArchaeology International2020

    Keeping plants and animals beyond their natural shelf life is a central human challenge, both as a matter of immediate survival and for the social and economic opportunities that stored foods offer. Understanding different food storage and preservation strategies in the past is key to a whole series of other research agendas, but remains challenging, not least because the evidence is patchy and hard to interpret. The paper below joins growing eff…

  • New Radiocarbon Dates Show Early Neolithic Date of Flint-Mining and Stone Quarrying in Britain

    Open AccessKevan Edinborough, Stephen Shennan et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2020Citada por: 8Referências: 31

    New radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates suggest a simultaneous appearance of two technologically and geographically distinct axe production practices in Neolithic Britain; igneous open-air quarries in Great Langdale, Cumbria, and from flint mines in southern England at ~4000–3700 cal BC. In light of the recent evidence that farming was introduced at this time by large-scale immigration from northwest Europe, and that expansion within Britain was extremely …

  • Cycles in Stone Mining and Copper Circulation in Europe 5500–2000 bc

    Open AccessPeter Schauer, Shennan et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Archaeology2020Citada por: 4Referências: 5

    The authors of this article consider the relationship in European prehistory between the procurement of high-quality stones (for axeheads, daggers, and other tools) on the one hand, and the early mining, crafting, and deposition of copper on the other. The data consist of radiocarbon dates for the exploitation of stone quarries, flint mines, and copper mines, and of information regarding the frequency through time of jade axeheads and copper arte…

  • Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment

    Open AccessJohn Reader, Petar Jandrić et al.ARTICLEPostdigital Science and Education2020Citada por: 8Referências: 3

  • British Neolithic Axehead Distributions and Their Implications

    Open AccessPeter Schauer, A Bevan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Method…2019Citada por: 5Referências: 10

    Neolithic stone axeheads from Britain provide an unusually rich, well-provenanced set of evidence with which to consider patterns of prehistoric production and exchange. It is no surprise then that these objects have often been subject to spatial analysis in terms of the relationship between particular stone source areas and the distribution of axeheads made from those stones. At stake in such analysis are important interpretative issues to do wi…

  • Mediterranean landscape change during the Holocene

    Open AccessN Roberts, John Woodbridge et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 19Referências: 33

    This synthesis paper offers a comparative perspective on how seven different Mediterranean regions, from Iberia and Morocco to the Levant, have been transformed by human and natural agencies during the past 10 millennia. It draws on a range of data sources: notably (1) archaeological site surveys ( n = 32,000) and 14 C dates ( n = 12,000) as proxies for long-term population change, (2) pollen records as a proxy for past vegetation and land cover …

  • Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant

    Open AccessAlessio Palmisano, John Woodbridge et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 11Referências: 57

    This paper explores long-term trends in human population and vegetation change in the Levant from the early to the late Holocene in order to assess when and how human impact has shaped the region’s landscapes over the millennia. To do so, we employed multiple proxies and compared archaeological, pollen and palaeoclimate data within a multi-scalar approach in order to assess how Holocene landscape dynamics change at different geographical scales. …

  • Tyrrhenian central Italy

    Open AccessSimon Stoddart, John Woodbridge et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 12Referências: 34

    This paper compares changes in vegetation structure and composition (using synthetic fossil pollen data) with proxy data for population levels (including settlements and radiocarbon dates) over the course of the last 10 millennia in Tyrrhenian central Italy. These data show generalised patterns of clearance of woodland in response both to early agriculturalists and urbanism, as well as the specific adoption of tree crops and variations in stock g…

  • The changing face of the Mediterranean – Land cover, demography and environmental change

    Open AccessA Bevan, Alessio Palmisano et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 7Referências: 15

    This paper introduces a special issue on The Changing Face of the Mediterranean: Land Cover, Demography, and Environmental Change, which brings together up-to-date regional or thematic perspectives on major long-term trends in Mediterranean human–environment relations. Particularly, important insights are provided by palynology to reconstruct past vegetation and land cover, and archaeology to establish long-term demographic trends, but with furth…

  • Pollen-inferred regional vegetation patterns and demographic change in Southern Anatolia through the Holocene

    Open AccessJohn Woodbridge, Jessie Woodbridge et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 15Referências: 24

    Southern Anatolia is a highly significant area within the Mediterranean, particularly in terms of understanding how agriculture moved into Europe from neighbouring regions. This study uses pollen, palaeoclimate and archaeological evidence to investigate the relationships between demography and vegetation change, and to explore how the development of agriculture varied spatially. Data from 21 fossil pollen records have been transformed into forest…

  • Long-term trends of land use and demography in Greece

    Open AccessErika Weiberg, A Bevan et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 27Referências: 25

    This paper offers a comparative study of land use and demographic development in northern and southern Greece from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. Results from summed probability densities (SPD) of archaeological radiocarbon dates and settlement numbers derived from archaeological site surveys are combined with results from cluster-based analysis of published pollen core assemblages to offer an integrated view of human pressure on the Gree…