Cayless, S. M. and Tipping, R. (2002). Data on mid-Holocene climatic, vegetation and anthropogenic interactions at Stanshiel Rig, southern Scotland. Vegetation Hist Archaeobotany 11 (3). Vol 11(3), pp. 201-210.
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Data on mid-Holocene climatic, vegetation and anthropogenic interactions at Stanshiel Rig, southern Scotland | ||||||
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Vegetation Hist Archaeobotany 11 (3) | ||||||
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Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | ||||||
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11 (3) | ||||||
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201 - 210 | ||||||
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Pollen, microscopic charcoal and peat humification analyses were applied to radiocarbon-dated peat cores to examine environmental change before and after the mid-Holocene transition from hunter-gatherer (Mesolithic) to agricultural (Neolithic) communities in presently marginal upland pasture at Stanshiel Rig, Annandale, southern Scotland. The Mesolithic--Neolithic transition in northern Britain is characterised by a number of key environmental changes as well as economic shifts, including temporal patterns of fire and the Ulmus decline. Deliberate vegetation modification by Mesolithic communities is not demonstrable at Stanshiel Rig, and openings in the woodland canopy may have been promoted by grazing by wild animals or have been a consequence of climate change. Changes in fire frequency are also correlated with peat- and pollen-stratigraphic evidence for shifts to a drier climate in the late Mesolithic, probably mediated through pedological and biomass-storage change. A single Ulmus decline occurred between c. 5650 and 5600 cal BP, and is related in the paper to climate change. Neolithic period impacts on the woodland were limited, and no cereal-type pollen was found. The difference between hunter-gatherer and opportunistic farmer/hunter-gatherer at this local level is argued to be insignificant, or not detectable palynologically. | ||||||
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2002 | ||||||
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30 Jul 2007 |
