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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Northwest Europe"”.
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HUMAN RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE DURING THE YOUNGER DRYAS IN NORTHWEST EUROPE
… from ca. 14,000 cal BP to 10,000 cal BP in northwest Europe, with a focus on the Younger Dryas Stadial event, which occurred around 12,900 cal BP to 11,700 cal BP. A set of predicted archaeological indicators were formed from existing theoretical models, based largely on Binford’s logistical …
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An Analysis of British Army Veterans’ Oral Testimony and the Campaign in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
… British Army veterans of the 1944-5 campaign in Northwest Europe, in order to explore the unique features of veterans’ oral history and assess its usefulness in military history. This involves firstly establishing the basic reliability of oral evidence, and then considering the effects of popular …
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Mounds In The Landscape: A Comparative Study Of Landscape Archaeology In English-Speaking Northwest Europe And North America
… decades. Within the regions of English-speaking Northwest Europe (including Britain and Ireland) and North America, I will specifically focus on the effects that theories have on mound interpretation as seen within a literature sample from each region. By tracing the path the various theories and …
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Highland light infantry of Canada, 1940-1944
… first five months of the campaign to liberate northwest Europe. The purpose of this paper is to establish a careful record of the unit’s campaign as a way of addressing the critical statements made by C.P. Stacey, the Official Historian of the Canadian Army in the Second World War and other …
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A high-resolution palaeoecological study of land use change during late prehistory on Exmoor
… patterns in certain areas in the UK and Northwest Europe. The need and importance for higher resolution vegetation reconstructions has long been recognised in the wider literature. The main focus of this research is to further understand the relationship between human behaviour, climate …
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Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Albian to Santonian (Cretaceous) of Bornholm, Denmark
… zonal schemes proposed for other areas of Northwest Europe. This data is then integrated with published data from macrofossil groups. Palaeoecological data is presented utilising foraminiferal group composition through the succession. An event synthesis is proposed for the study interval …
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Landslide generated tsunamis : numerical modeling and real-time prediction
… 1977 Sumba earthquake. Continental slopes off northwest Europe are well known for their history of huge underwater landslides. The current geological situation west of Spitsbergen is comparable to the continental margin off Norway after the last glaciation, when the large tsunamigenic Storegga …
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Quantification of Influential Surface Fuel Parameters in Fire-Prone Ecosystems of the Netherlands
<p>Changing climate conditions in northwest Europe present an increasing wildfire risk in the Netherlands. Focus on fuels monitoring in this region is not as extensive as it is in the United States. Accurate estimation of biomass fuel loading is integral to prevention of wildfires which pose a …
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Palaeohydrology and archaeology in raised mires: a case study from Kilnagarnagh
… trends in other mires in Ireland, the UK and Northwest Europe. Analytical techniques used include gross peat stratigraphic and archaeological field survey, testate amoebae, plant macrofossil and colorimetric humification analyses and radiocarbon dating.A Bronze Age wooden walkway in …
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Neutrality in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1899-1914
… two similarly sized, neighbouring countries in northwest Europe, it was not an occasional stance, but a long-term position that persisted in times of peace. Belgium had been neutralised at the time of its independence; the Netherlands had opted for it voluntarily. This thesis investigates how …
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Ecology and climates of early Middle Pleistocene interglacials in Britain
… whether there is evidence for MBT expression in Northwest European thermoclimates. No evidence for this is found, and it is suggested (in Chapter 8) that MBT expression in this region may instead be reflected in hydroclimatic variables (e.g. enhanced annual precipitation). Finally, it is …
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An isotopic investigation into calving seasonality, diet and dairying in British Prehistoric cattle. Reconstructing animal husbandry at a sub-annual resolution using multi-isotope analysis and intra-tooth sampling.
… prehistoric economies, particularly in northwest Europe, where a high degree of lactose tolerance implies that fresh milk has long been a significant dietary component. Domestic cattle (Bos taurus) are biologically able to breed year-round, potentially enabling farmers to select a …
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Visible Tools, Invisible Crafts: An analysis of textiles tools, textile production, and textile organisation along the south coast of Iron Age Britain
… of prehistoric fabrics survive in Britain and northwest Europe outside of some special conditions. Thus tools that produced textiles are the main source of information on textiles created and how these were made. Textile tools also provide evidence that textile fragments cannot: where …
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Exploring the Hydroclimatology of Floods: From Detection to Attribution
… sentinel position on the Atlantic margin of northwest Europe and is addressed within this thesis. The Island of Ireland (IoI) is classified into 3 Extreme Rainfall Regions (ERRs) reflecting distinct extreme precipitation climatologies, thus furthering understanding of physical flood-producing …
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The Development of Britain's Airborne Forces during the Second World War
… doctrine from the Mediterranean in 1943 through northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945.
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The palaeolithic of the Avon valley: a geoarchaeological approach to the hominin colonisation of Britain.
… of hominin presence and behaviour in northwest Europe has though remained largely obscured due to the complex depositional context of Pleistocene fluvial terraces and limited age constraints of these sites. This thesis discusses the current knowledge of the Pleistocene palaeogeography …
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Setting the Holocene clock using varved lake sediments in Sweden
… date Holocene sedimentary sequences in Northwest and Central Europe. The accuracy and precision of the method is determined by errors associated with the varve chronologies (i.e. c. 1-2%), sampling resolution (c. 50-100 years), definition uncertainties and possible remanence lock-in …
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Drowned landscapes of the Belgian Continental Shelf : implications for northwest European landscape evolution and preservation potential for submerged heritage
… eustatic sea levels and glacio-isostasy across northwest Europe. The complex interaction between eustatic sea level and glacio-isostatic adjustment of the landscape, from the time of ice mass expansion to their deglaciation, exerts a major control on local/regional landforms such as rivers and …
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Resolving phylogenetic relationships within the order Enoplida (Phylum Nematoda)
… represented only shallow water fauna from Northwest Europe. This study has aimed to improve resolution at the base of the nematode tree, using drastically increased taxon-sampling within the previously neglected Enoplid clade. Morphological identifications, nuclear gene sequences (18S and …
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Challenges in Reconstructing Past Exploitations of Atlantic Cod: A Zooarchaeological Case Study from Early Medieval England
… of these findings in the wider study area of northwest Europe suggests that early medieval communities had the technological abilities and traditional knowledge required to conduct offshore marine fishing as early as 1,300 years ago. The analysis of skeletal elements and butchery patterns of …
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