Climate change, whether gradual or sudden, has frequently been invoked as a causal factor
to explain many aspects of cultural change during the prehistoric and early historic periods …

Background I arrived at this study along an experiential path. As a child I explored the
sunken and mysterious hollow ways of the chalk downland where I grew up and which have …

People have engaged with Ireland's wetland environments since the earliest times, leaving
a unique, fragile and valuable archaeological and environmental legacy. A long history of …

Multiproxy analyses comprising peat stratigraphy, testate amoebae, pollen and humification
analyses from four profiles across a complex raised mire system at Derryville Bog, Co …

Over the last three decades there has been a considerable rise in the number of excavations
which have revealed evidence for Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) settlement in …

The value of testate amoebae in the reconstruction of changes in surface wetness from
ombrotrophic mires is well known, but the potential value of such records in specifically …

Some recent significant work has been carried out using 'big data'to analyse chronological
trends within prehistoric Ireland, but these analyses are sometimes lacking in archaeological …

Peatlands are regarded as having exceptional archaeological value, due to the fact that the
waterlogged conditions of these environments, like other wetlands, can preserve organic …

Raised mires represent a unique resource for the study of past peoples within their changing
landscape context. However, present palaeoecological and archaeological approaches to …

Wetlands have been a prominent feature of the Irish landscape since the early prehistoric
period. Systematic archaeological surveys and excavations in recent decades have …