Ian A Simpson

Biographic Data

ID94241
NAMEIan A Simpson
GIVEN NAMESIan A
FAMILY NAMESimpson
SIGNATURESIMPSON I A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Stirling
ORCID0000-0003-2447-7877
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS608
AUTHOR COUNT67
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX14

  • Transhumance, shielings and soil fertility – land-use legacies in Menstrie Glen, Scotland

    Open AccessSebastian Wolfrum, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLELandscape History2023

    Whilst transhumance has been researched as a livestock and land management system, its legacy on soil- nutrient levels is unknown. This study addresses changes in soil chemistry associated with historical transhumance grazing management with the aim of establishing if soil-nutrient levels can shed new insights into land-use legacies originating from past transhumance in Scotland. The study is focused on one aspect of transhumance, the shielings a…

  • Urban gardens in Antiquity

    Open AccessGenevieve Holdridge, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2022References: 19

    In the Eastern Mediterranean, where some of the earliest known urban cities are located, relatively little is known about urban soils in archaeological contexts. Red Mediterranean Soil (RMS) is a hallmark of the Mediterranean region while the impact of long-term urbanization on RMS material is understudied. In this article we present evidence of RMS from the longue durée cityscape of Jerash, Jordan, to determine how humans have used, modified and…

  • Global Forces and Local Responses

    Ian A Simpson, Ian SimpsonARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2022

    Australian press reports of a ‘riot’ between two groups of Indian lascars at Circular Quay and subsequent demonstration through Sydney streets in 1908 illustrate the collision between the forces of globalisation – in the form of the transoceanic passage of South Asian seafarers – and those of nation formation and white racial identity, in the response of the local authorities. Australian anxieties over the transgression of space by mobile South A…

  • Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands

    Tom Brughmans, Timothy Kinnaird et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Archaeology2021

    Rivers have always been a magnet for human settlement, providing resources, such as water, food, and energy, and communication and travel routes. Climate- and human-made changes to the environment can easily affect the fragile balance between the ‘natural’ and the ‘urban’, causing droughts, floods, and other changes in riverine systems that challenge economic, environmental, and social sustainability. This is especially true in semi-arid regions …

  • Scaling up and zooming in

    Open AccessAchim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global History2021Cited by: 3References: 13

    Combining global perspectives with localized case studies and integrating scientific and material evidence of environmental change in historical narratives are amongst the main challenges for the field of global history in addressing the dawn of the Anthropocene. In this article, we trace the relationship of the city of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) with its riverine hinterland, from the first millennium BCE until the nineteenth century CE. We argue th…

  • Urban-Riverine Hinterland Synergies in Semi-Arid Environments

    Open AccessAchim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2019Cited by: 3References: 88

    This interdisciplinary study addresses issues of urban-riverine hinterland relationships in semi-arid environments over millennia at Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan, presenting research that stimulates new lines of enquiry with much broader implications than those relating to this single site. Through the presentation of new data on wadi-sediment responses to social and environmental change, we assess ways in which urban settlements, their hinterlands, a…

  • Industrial Devon

    Catherine Mills, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Archaeology…2019Cited by: 3

    Industrial Devon’ is a schools-based heritage engagement initiative that staff at the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy at Stirling University, Scotland, undertook in 2013/14. The project’s implementation involved collaboration with a variety of internal and external education and municipal partners, together with student volunteers. The project explored the environmental history of historic industries located along the River Devon in C…

  • Palaeoenvironmental evidence for woodland conservation in Northern Iceland from settlement to the twentieth century

    Eileen Tisdall, Rebecca O Barclay et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2018References: 17

    Narratives of Norse arrival in Iceland highlight the onset of land degradation and loss of woodland cover as major and long-term environmental consequences of settlement. However, deliberate and sustained land resource management in Iceland is increasingly being recognised, and in this paper we assess whether woodland areas were deliberately managed as fuel resources. Our study location is the high status farm site at Hofstaðir in northern Icelan…

  • Form and function in Shetland prehistoric field systems

    Val Turner, Val E Turner et al.CHAPTERAtlantic Connections and…2017

  • City and wadi

    Open AccessGenevieve Holdridge, Søren Munch Kristiansen et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2017References: 7

    Archaeological excavations of urban sites in the Mediterranean have a long history, but only recently are geoarchaeology-based landscape studies beginning to provide insight into the complex and dynamic relationships between cities and their hinterlands. Such studies are becoming increasingly important as archaeologists seek to understand how cities sustained themselves, demonstrating resilience to both external shocks and long-term environmental…

  • Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security

    Open AccessMargaret C Nelson, E Ingram et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2016

    Significance Climate-induced disasters are impacting human well-being in ever-increasing ways. Disaster research and management recognize and emphasize the need to reduce vulnerabilities, although extant policy is not in line with this realization. This paper assesses the extent to which vulnerability to food shortage, as a result of social, demographic, and resource conditions at times of climatic challenge, correlates with subsequent declines i…

  • Application of pattern recognition in detection of buried archaeological sites based on analysing environmental variables, Khorramabad Plain, West Iran

    Open AccessSiyamack Sharafi, Sajjad Fouladvand et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2016Cited by: 4References: 12

  • Europeanization of Sub-Arctic Environments

    Open AccessKirsty A Golding, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2015Cited by: 1References: 47

  • The lead legacy

    Catherine Mills, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLELandscape History2014

    The British lead mining industry peaked and declined well before environmental protection and aftercare became a statutory requirement in the post-war period, and as a consequence left in its wake pockets of barren and degraded land. Metal-rich waste tips rarely return to vegetation, and environmental pollution continues through wind erosion and adit drainage. Yet the upland and often remote situation of the mines has permitted many of these smal…

  • Archaeological sediments from settlement mounds of the Sagzabad Cluster, central Iran

    Mehran Maghsoudi, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2014

  • The earliest Buddhist shrine

    Open AccessRobin Coningham, R A E Coningham et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2013Cited by: 10References: 16

    Key locations identified with the lives of important religious founders have often been extensively remodelled in later periods, entraining the destruction of many of the earlier remains. Recent UNESCO-sponsored work at the major Buddhist centre of Lumbini in Nepal has sought to overcome these limitations, providing direct archaeological evidence of the nature of an early Buddhist shrine and a secure chronology. The excavations revealed a sequenc…

  • The dry tank

    Open AccessK Gilliland, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2012Cited by: 17References: 11

  • Contextualising the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva ‘Culture’

    Robin Coningham, Prishanta Gunawardhana et al.ARTICLESouth Asian Studies2012Cited by: 1

    Terracotta figurines and artefacts discovered throughout Sri Lanka, especially in the North Central Province, have been traditionally assigned to the Tabbova-Maradanmaduva culture. Not a single stratigraphic excavation has been conducted at any site where a terracotta assemblage has been recovered, leading to a variety of divergent opinions as to the date of such artefacts. In addition, the corpus is often presumed to represent ‘folk art’ spontan…

  • Shieling Areas

    Open AccessJennifer Brown, Jennifer L Brown et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2012Cited by: 4References: 29

  • Norse–Inuit interaction and landscape change in southern Greenland? A geochronological, Pedological, and Palynological investigation

    Open AccessKirsty A Golding, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2011Cited by: 12References: 7

    Ruins representing both medieval Norse and Inuit (Thule culture) settlements can be found together on the coast at Sandhavn (59°59′ N, 44°46′ W), Greenland. The site presents a rare opportunity to investigate the character of past contact and interaction between these two peoples. Soils‐based, radiocarbon, and palynological analyses demonstrate the creation of hortic anthrosols within Norse home‐fields used between the mid‐11th and late 14th cent…

  • Response to Goonatilake

    Open AccessRobin Coningham, R A E Coningham et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2011References: 2

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  • People of the ancient rainforest

    Open AccessNimal Perera, Nikos Kourampas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2011Cited by: 72References: 90

  • Rockshelter sedimentation in a dynamic tropical landscape

    Open AccessNikos Kourampas, Ian A Simpson et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2009Cited by: 11References: 36

    Kitulgala Beli‐lena, a rockshelter in gneiss in humid tropical southwestern Sri Lanka, was inhabited by Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene (>31,000–7880 B.P.) hunter‐gatherers who made geometric microliths and exploited rainforest resources. Micromorphological analysis of a ca. 3‐m‐thick succession of diamictic loams, clays, and breccia with cultural content suggests that relative contribution of episodic colluviation and roof fall, water seepage th…

  • Conceptual Models of 1200 Years of Icelandic Soil Erosion Reconstructed Using Tephrochronology

    Open AccessAndrew J Dugmore, Andrew Dugmore et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2009Cited by: 5References: 37

    With reference to 18 tephra isochrones, we present six reconstructions of landscapes in South Iceland at precise times through the last 1200 years and develop three related models of soil erosion. Before the late ninth century A.D., the landscapes of Iceland were without people and resilient to natural processes. The initial impact of human settlement in the ninth century AD was most profound in ecologically marginal areas, where major anthropoge…

  • Hofstaðir

    Gavin Lucas, Colleen Batey et al.

    This is the first output from a multi national collaborative project based in Iceland. The site is a substantial settlement or skali, which has been variously interepreted as a pagan temple or a ritualistic centre. It is clear it is a primary farmstead which played a major local and national role. The material culture (Batey) demonstrates the use of both the primary tool kit from Scandinavia and the modifications needed though life in a new count…