An assessment of the palaeoecological potential of biological remains from a site at Star Carr, Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire (original) (raw)

Abstract

An assessment was undertaken of the palaeoecological potential of a series of samples from excavations at Star Carr, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, as part of a research-driven evaluation of the archaeological potential of an area under threat of degradation of the buried archaeological record through a falling water table. The deposits encountered at this site primarily consisted of natural peats and humic silts. Most of the layers examined during the assessment contained sufficient plant and insect remains to allow a useful reconstruction of depositional regime, local ecology and climate, as well as their development through the sequences, which probably include early Holocene sediments, as well as those associated with more conventionally 'Mesolithic' deposits. The recovered biota were indicative of aquatic and marshland habitats: essentially swamp with evidence for open water at some stages. Strictly dryland habitats were only weakly represented. There were insects w...

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