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Catch Per Unit Research Effort : Sampling Intensity, Chronological Uncertainty, and the Onset of Marine Fish Consumption in Historic London.
As the cumulative volume of ecofactual data from archaeological sites mounts, the analytical tools required for its synthesis have not always kept pace. While recent attention has been devoted to spatial aspects of meta-analysis, the methodological challenges of chronological synthesis have been somewhat neglected. Nowhere is this issue more acute...Orton, David ; Morris, James ; Pipe, Alan
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The National Planning Policy Framework and Archaeology
This helpful addition to the literature and thinking around planning and archaeology comes at an exciting time, as the Localism Act, streamlining of non-planning consents, economic recession and political change all converge. It is striking, in the review of archaeology and planning policy over some thirty years, what a revolution...Nixon, Taryn
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The challenges and opportunities for mega-infrastructure projects and archaeology
Jay Carver’s paper is very useful in summarising the process that Crossrail has followed and identifing the key factors in managing the risk, and maximising the benefits, associated with archaeology on major infrastructure projects. MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) has been involved in many of London’s infrastructure projects, at the...Jackson, Sophie
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The Thames Discovery Programme : Public Engagement and Research on London’s Foreshore
The Thames Discovery Programme (TDP) – a community archaeology project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (from 2008–2011) and now hosted by Museum of London Archaeology – has maintained close links with UCL throughout the lifetime of the project. This continues the association established by our predecessor project, the Thames...Cohen, Nathalie ; Milne, Gustav ; Wragg, Eliott
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Book
Mitigation of construction impact on archaeological remains
This book will be invaluable for all archaeologists involved in fieldwork and site management where construction is involved. Operations typically employed during development, from groundworks through to post-construction activity, are described and the likely changes to the burial environment at all these stages outlined. Ways of mitigating the potential damage...MOLA
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The archaeology of Greater London: an assessment of archaeological evidence for human presence in the area now covered by Greater London
It is nearly 25 years since the last major survey of the archaeology of the London region was written. In that quarter-century some of the most extraordinary evidence of our past has come to light: a 9000 year-old hunting camp in Uxbridge, a 2-mile-long prehistoric band-and-ditch cursus monument at Stanwell,...MOLA
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A Research Framework for London Archaeology
A research framework for London archaeology follows The archaeology of Greater London (MoLAS 2000) and is intended to be used in conjunction with it to realise the potential of the London Archaeological Archive, to manage the archaeological resource more effectively, and to generate more focused research. Chronological periods are summarised...Nixon, Taryn ; McAdam, Ellen ; Tomber, Roberta ; Swain, Hedley
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Roman London's first voices: Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010-14
This publication presents research into Britain’s largest, earliest and most significant collection of Roman waxed writing tablets. The collection, which boasts the first hand-written document known from Britain, was discovered during archaeological excavations for Bloomberg. The formal, official, legal and business aspects of life in the first decades of Londinium...Tomlin, Roger S. O.
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Archaeology at Bloomberg
The construction in London of Bloomberg’s European headquarters provided an exciting opportunity for archaeologists to re-examine the site where the Roman temple of Mithras was discovered in the 1950s. Located at the heart of the Roman town and of the medieval and later City of London, the Bloomberg site has...MOLA
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Research report
Transforming Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1: A report on the archaeological watching brief
Unpublished A4 reportMOLA