A method to estimate peat depth and extent is vital for accurate estimation of carbon stocks
and to facilitate appropriate peatland management. Current methods for direct measurement …

Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the
formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Britain and Ireland's diverse …

Tin is an essential raw material both for the copper–tin alloys developed during the Early
Bronze Age and for the casting of tableware in the Medieval period. Secondary geological …

Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later
prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive …

The Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal bc) in Britain is traditionally understood to
represent a major funerary transition. This is a transformation from a heterogeneous funerary …

This paper examines the containment and covering of people and objects in burials
throughout later prehistory in Britain. Recent analyses of grave assemblages with …

1. The brown bear, Ursus arctos, was Holocene Britain's largest carnivoran and has
appeared in recent rewilding discussions. 2. Despite widespread interest, we know very little …

Rationale Species identification of hair is routinely done by microscopic analysis. Following
previous studies that used protein analysis to characterize species markers in hair and wool …

Responding to recent advances in knowledge about the first arrival of woollen sheep in
Europe and linked investigations of textile remains on the Continent, this paper argues that …

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