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2019
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Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes
The second plague pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis, devastated Europe and the nearby regions between the 14th and 18th centuries AD. Here we analyse human remains from ten European archaeological sites spanning this period and reconstruct 34 ancient Y. pestis genomes. Our data support an initial entry of the bacterium... -
2012
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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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2013
Journal article
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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2013
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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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2017
Journal article
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