Europe's Lost Frontiers. Volume 1 : Context and Methodology / edited by Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitch, Simon, editor.

Gaffney, Vincent L., editor.

Series:

Europe's lost frontiers.

Europe's lost frontiers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeological surveying.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Other Title:

Europe's Lost Frontiers

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Europe's Lost Frontiers was the largest directed archaeological research project undertaken in Europe to investigate the inundated landscapes of the Early Holocene North Sea - the area frequently referred to as 'Doggerland'. Funded through a European Research Council Advanced Grant (project number 670518), the project ran from 2015 to 2021, and involved more than 30 academics, representing institutions spread geographically from Ireland to China. A vast area of the seabed was mapped, and multiple ship expeditions were launched to retrieve sediment cores from the valleys of the lost prehistoric landscapes of the North Sea. This data has now been analysed to provide evidence of how the land was transformed in the face of climate change and rising sea levels. This volume is the first in a series of monographs dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of data generated by the project. As a precursor to the publication of the detailed results, it provides the context of the study and method statements. Later volumes will present the mapping, palaeoenvironment, geomorphology and modelling programmes of Europe's Lost Frontiers. The results of the project confirm that these landscapes, long held to be inaccessible to archaeology, can be studied directly and provide an archaeological narrative. This data will become increasingly important at a time when contemporary climate change and geo-political crises are pushing development within the North Sea at an unprecedented rate, and when the opportunities to explore this unique, heritage landscape may be significantly limited in the future."

Contents:

istofFigures iii

GeneralEditor'sPrefacevii

TheLostFrontiersTeam viii

Authors'details ix

Acknowledgements xi

Chapter1Europe'sLostFrontiers:contextanddevelopment 1

BeforeEurope'sLostFrontiers

Chapter2Beyondthesite:Are-evaluationofthevalueofextensivecommercialdatasetsfor palaeolandscaperesearch 16

Chapter3AdescriptionofpalaeolandscapefeaturesinthesouthernNorthSea 36

Chapter4Fromextensivetointensive:MovingintotheMesolithiclandscapeofDoggerland 55

Chapter5 ThearchaeologicalcontextofDoggerlandduringthefinalPalaeolithicandMesolithic 63

Europe'sLostFrontiers

Chapter6TheSouthernRiver:methodsfortheinvestigationofsubmergedpalaeochannelsystems 89

Chapter7Establishingalithostratigraphicandpalaeoenvironmentalframeworkfortheinvestigationof

vibracoresfromthesouthernNorthSea100

Chapter8SedimentaryancientDNApalaeoenvironmentalreconstructionintheNorthSealandscape12

Chapter9PalaeomagneticanalysisofcoresfromEurope'sLostFrontiers 122

Chapter10Applyingchemostratigraphictechniquestoshallowboreholes:Lessonsandcasestudiesfrom

Europe'sLostFrontiers 137

Chapter11IntroductiontogeochemicalstudieswithinEurope'sLostFrontiers 154

Chapter12ConstructingsedimentchronologiesforDoggerland 165

Chapter13BuildingchronologiesforEurope'sLostFrontiers:Radiocarbondatingand age-depthmodelling 181

Chapter14Simulatingadrownedlandscape:Afour-dimensionalapproachtosolvingproblems ofbehaviourandscale 190

Chapter15GreetingsfromDoggerland?Futurechallengesforthetargetedprospectionofthesouthern

NorthSeapalaeolandscape 208

SupplementaryData

Chapter16Supplementarydatato'ThearchaeologicalcontextofDoggerlandduringtheFinalPalaeolithic andMesolithic'byWalker,Gaffney,Fitch,Harding,Fraser,MuruandTingle 217

Chapter17Supplementarydatato'ConstructingsedimentchronologiesforDoggerbank,NorthSea'by Kinnaird,Bates,BatemanandSrivastava 218

Bibliography 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781803272696

1803272694