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Environmental Archaeology
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Title:
Environmental Archaeology
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Subtitle:
The Journal of Human Palaeoecology
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Circaea
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16 (1)
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Journal
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Year of Publication:
2011
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ISBN:
1461-4103
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http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/env/2011/00000016/00000001
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14 Aug 2012
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Charcoal analysis of industrial fuelwood from medieval and early modern iron-working sites in Bilsdale and Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, UK; evidence for species selection and woodland manage...
Jane Wheeler
16 - 35
This paper presents the results of species diversity and dendrological analyses of archaeological charcoal excavated from medieval and early modern iron production sites in Bilsdale, and at Rievaulx in the neighbouring valley of Ryedale, North Yorkshire, UK. Standard methods of quantification are used to assess species diversity, sampling sufficiency and taxa presence. The assessment of dendrological features provides additional evidence for growth trends and cutting cycles analogous with cyclical woodland management, as well as environmental and growing conditions. Analysis of archaeological charcoal from four medieval bloomery furnace sites in Bilsdale, and from the site of the hammersmithy and blast furnace at the early modern iron works at Rievaulx, provide comparable data-sets which indicate a change in cutting practise and dominant species selection for industrial fuelwood occurred between the 12th- and mid-16th centuries AD. Results show that dominant species presence changed from an admixture of predominantly birch (Betula sp.) and hazel (Corylus avellana) sourced from small calibre branchwood and stemwood used in the medieval bloomery furnaces, to a dominant oak (Quercus sp.) presence from standard sources used at the Rievaulx iron works by the mid-16th century. Whilst it is uncertain whether this change in dominant species composition and the source of industrial fuelwood is related to changes in local availability, or the result of the technological transition to blast furnace processing which occurred at this time, estate records reveal a woodland management campaign was instigated to supply and maintain fuelwood supplies to the iron works at Rievaulx which coincides with the introduction of Tudor arboricultural legislation in the 1540s.
Paraffin flotation for archaeoentomological research; is it really efficient?
Mélanie M Rousseau
58 - 64
Paraffin flotation has been used extensively in archaeoentomology and paleoentomology in the last four decades but not tested systematically. Its efficiency is here assessed. Eighty-five per cent of the identifiable coleopteran remains were recovered regardless of any variables. Some explanations of the method's variable efficiency given in published literature were tested, namely the experience of the technician, the nature of the residue, and the taxon and body part. Difference in recovery rates between four categories of workers proved significant. Residue type influences the efficiency of the method but the type of sclerite was of little importance in the process. Overall, however, paraffin flotation was shown to be sufficiently efficient and its continued use is recommended.
Book Reviews
Kevin J Edwards
Paul B Pettitt
John R Stewart
Robert Van de Noort
Gillian Jones
Sue Stallibrass
65 - 76
Reviews of: Tipping, R. 2010. Bowmont. An Environmental History of the Bowmont Valley and the Northern Cheviot Hills, 10000 BC'“AD 2000. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. pp. 234. ISBN: 978-0-903903-49-3. £30 (hardback) by Kevin J. Edwards; Gaffney, V., Fitch, S. and Smith, D. 200 9. Europe' s Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland (CBA Research Report 160). York: Council for British Archaeology. pp. 202. ISBN: 978-1-902771-77-9. £15 (paperback) by Paul Pettitt; Serjeantson, D. 2009. Birds (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 486. ISBN: 978-0-521-75858-1. £29.99 (paperback) by John Stewart; Murphy, P. 2009. The English Coast: A History and a Prospect. London: Continuum. pp. 296. ISBN: 978-1-84725-143-5. £60 (hardback) by Robert van de Noort; Albarella, U., Beech, M., Locker, A., Moreno-Garcia, M., Mulville, J. and Curl, J. 2009. Norwich Castle: Excavations and Historical Surveys 1987'“98. Part III: a Zooarchaeological Study. Norwich: East Anglian Archaeology Occasional Papers 22. pp. 174. ISBN: 978-0-90559-4-50-7. £20 (paperback) by Gillian Jones; Maltby, M. 2010. Feeding a Roman Town. Environmental Evidence from Excavations in Winchester, 1972'“1985. Winchester: Winchester Museum s & English Heritage. pp. 405. ISBN: 978-0-86135-019-3. £16.50 (paperback) by Sue Stallibrass. SH
