Kristian L . R . Pedersen
I am based at the University of Edinburgh. Most of my research concerns the Stone Age of the North Sea littoral, especially the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, building on my experience with the South Scandinavia material. My fieldwork is undertaken primarily in Scotland, although I continue to do some work in northern England. I still maintain my early research interest in South Scandinavia, principally on the Late Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Early Neolithic. My work in Scotland has, however, also resulted in me extending my orbit of research to encompass the Mesolithic material from the South-West coast of Norway in addition to the Danish and Swedish evidence. This is principally because of my interest in the typo-chronologies of the northern littoral of the submerged lands of the North Sea. This interest manifests itself in a statistical comparison of armatures, in the hope of elucidating social territories. The transmission of specific production techniques is also relevant to this study.
Apart from my interests in the Stone Age, I am also increasingly involved in the study of the Viking Age in Scotland, and have an avid interest in the study of the Medieval and early modern fisheries. This has brought me back to an early interest in the North Atlantic, particularly the Norse settlement of Iceland and Greenland, and I am usually doing research here in the summers, as well as in the Canadian Arctic where I have begun to reinvigorate an early interest in Arctic prehistory.
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Phone: +447841455535
Address: Centre for Open Learning
University of Edinburgh
Paterson's Land
37 Holyrood Road
Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ
Scotland
Apart from my interests in the Stone Age, I am also increasingly involved in the study of the Viking Age in Scotland, and have an avid interest in the study of the Medieval and early modern fisheries. This has brought me back to an early interest in the North Atlantic, particularly the Norse settlement of Iceland and Greenland, and I am usually doing research here in the summers, as well as in the Canadian Arctic where I have begun to reinvigorate an early interest in Arctic prehistory.
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Phone: +447841455535
Address: Centre for Open Learning
University of Edinburgh
Paterson's Land
37 Holyrood Road
Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ
Scotland
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presents a detailed pollen record from Embleton’s Bog from c. 4200 cal BC until c. 3400 cal BC, across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, with the intention of defining woodland disturbance and the local introduction of agricultural elements. On dry soils, the woodland prior to c. 3700 cal BC, was probably dominated by oak and hazel with ash, rowan and aspen, and (more rarely) elm and lime. This woodland
was disturbed, probably by people, and the proportions of open-ground herbs increased, but there are no pollen types to suggest this disturbance was purposeful. Woodland disturbance after c. 3700 cal BC was also limited. There was no major creation of open ground or grassland then. Pollen that probably represents wheat is first recorded after the elm decline but crop growing was of limited scale. There is no evidence in the pollen record for pasture.
presents a detailed pollen record from Embleton’s Bog from c. 4200 cal BC until c. 3400 cal BC, across the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, with the intention of defining woodland disturbance and the local introduction of agricultural elements. On dry soils, the woodland prior to c. 3700 cal BC, was probably dominated by oak and hazel with ash, rowan and aspen, and (more rarely) elm and lime. This woodland
was disturbed, probably by people, and the proportions of open-ground herbs increased, but there are no pollen types to suggest this disturbance was purposeful. Woodland disturbance after c. 3700 cal BC was also limited. There was no major creation of open ground or grassland then. Pollen that probably represents wheat is first recorded after the elm decline but crop growing was of limited scale. There is no evidence in the pollen record for pasture.