Environmental challenges for the medieval North Atlantic world

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Settlement, landscape and land-use change at a Pictish Elite Centre : Assessing the palaeoecological record for economic continuity and social change at Rhynie in N.E. Scotland

Open Access via the Jisc Sage Agreement Acknowledgements: Special acknowledgements go to Audrey Innes for her laboratory support, to Edouard Masson-Maclean who helped with the extraction of the core and who got slightly wetter than intended, and to the Leverhulme Trust who have funded this project: Grant number RG13876-10.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Long-term development and trajectories of inferred lake-water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes

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Lake and crannog : A 2500-year palaeoenvironmental record of continuity and change in NE Scotland

Acknowledgements Special acknowledgements go to Audrey Innes for her laboratory support, to Laura McHardie who originally extracted the core with Michael J. Stratigos. Thanks are owed to the Leys Estate and the then Estate Manager Thys Simpson for allowing access, help in taking the core and overall support for work in the former loch. Thanks to the Hunter Archaeological and Historical Trust who funded the fieldwork. The article was written as part of the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Comparative Kingship: the early Medieval kingdoms of Northern Britain and Ireland’ (Grant RG13876-10). Authors would like to thank the use of RIAIDT-USC analytical facilities. OLC is funded by JIN project (PID2019-111683RJ-I00) Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion and Beca Leonardo a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales 2020 de la Fundación BBVA. open access via Elsevier agreementPeer reviewedPublisher PD

Identifying Social Transformations and Crisis during the Pre-Monastic to Post-Viking era on Iona : New Insights from a Palynological and Palaeoentomological Perspective

Acknowledgements: Special acknowledgements go to Audrey Innes for her laboratory support, to Historic Environment Scotland and to the Leverhulme Trust who have helped fund this project and to the University of Glasgow who have helped support this work.Peer reviewedPostprin

Climate Change, Fire and Human Activity Drive Vegetation Change during the Last Eight Millennia in the Xistral Mountains of NW Iberia

Funding: OLC is funded by a Ramón y Cajal senior fellowship (RYC2020-030531-I) and the project “Pollutio” Plan Nacional (PID2019-111683RJ-I00) Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion. OLC and AMC are funded by “Grupos de Referencia Competitiva” (ED431C 2021/32) by Xunta de Galicia. Noemí Silva Sánchez is funded by a Juan de la Cierva-Formación Grant from the Spanish Government (ref: FJC2018-036266-I). LMM is supported by the Programa de Atracciόn de Talento modalidad 1 (2019-T1/AMB-12782; ECOSINK project) funded by the Comunidad de Madrid. LMM, TMM, AMC are funded by the project PALAEOFUN from the Plan Estatal (PID2020-115580RB-100), Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciόnPeer reviewedPublisher PD

Industrial-era lead and mercury contamination in southern Greenland implicates North American sources

We would like to thank Jesús R. Aboal (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) and Kjell Billström (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) for access to the laboratory facilities; Antonio Rodríguez López helped with laboratory work. This research was done under the framework of the projects CGL2010-20672 (Plan Nacional I+D+i, Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad), R2014/001 and GPC2014-009 (Dirección Xeral I+D, Xunta de Galicia). The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the UK Leverhulme Trust Footprints on the Edge of Thule programme award for core collection and associated environmental research.Peer reviewedPostprin

Comment on : “A novel approach to peatlands as archives of total cumulative spatial pollution loads from atmospheric deposition of airborne elements complementary to EMEP data: Priority pollutants (Pb, Cd, Hg)” by Ewa Miszczak, Sebastian Stefaniak, Adam Michczyński, Eiliv Steinnes and Irena Twardowska

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Age determination of Borth Bog 2 (Cors Fochno) peat core from Wales

14C and 210Pb age determination of a high-resolution peat core from the Past Global Changes - Carbon in Peat on EArth through Time (PAGES_C-PEAT) Project