Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2000/00490
Mesolithic to neolithic coastal environmental change c6500-3500 Cal BC: integrating role & chronology of human agency & natural disturbance factors
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor MG Bell, University of Reading, Archaeology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J Allen, University of Reading, Archaeology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor S Manning, Cornell University, Lab for Aegean & Near East Dendrochronog
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr SP Dark, University of Reading, Archaeology
- Grant held at:
- University of Reading, Archaeology
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Marine
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Science-Based Archaeology
- Land - Ocean Interactions
- Quaternary Science
- Palaeoenvironments
- Abstract:
- The project will evaluate the evidence for Mesolithic to initial Neolithic environmental manipulation in a lowland coastal study area in the Welsh Severn Estuary between 6500-3500 Cal BC. Evidence for burning will be evaluated alongside other disturbance factors including storms, floods and faunal agents using multiple sources of palaeoenvironmental evidence (particularly pollen, plant macrofossils and dendrochronology). These data and highly precise timescales of coastal environmental change will enable us to identify the extent to which disturbance is event related, the return period of events, whether disturbances are coeval as between sites and what the implications of these changes may have been for human activity.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2000/00490
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £169,203
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £91,020 | £4,828 | £21,687 | £51,670 |
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