Outputs
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Featured Publications
Richer, S, (2021) Sea Where there Once was Land: Redcar, England, Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, (Spring 2021) 18. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi:10.5282/rcc/9303.
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Richer, S, (2020) Environmental Archaeology - connection and communication, Internet Archaeology 53. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.53.11
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Richer, S, Stump, D and Marchant, R (2019) Archaeology has no relevance, Internet Archaeology 53. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.53.2.
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Richer, S, (2018) ‘Peat Deposits’. In S López Varela (ed) The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences.
Richer, S and Gearey, B, (2017) The Medicine Tree: Unsettling Palaeoecological Perceptions of Past Environments and Human Activity, Journal of Social Archaeology, 17(3): 239–262.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1469605317731013 or the accepted manuscript can be freely downloaded from here.
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Richer, S, and Gearey, B, (2018) From Rackham to REVEALS: Reflections on Palaeoecological Approaches to Woodland and Trees, Environmental Archaeology.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2017.1283765 this article is fully open access.
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Reports
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2020
Richer, S (2020) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Ebbsfleet, Kent. Unpublished report 20/07.
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Richer, S (2020) Analysis of pollen from Land at the former Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire. Unpublished report 20/06.
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Richer, S (2020) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Saffron Walden, Essex. Unpublished report 20/05.
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Richer, S (2020) Analysis of pollen from Meriden Quarry, Solihull, West Midlands. Unpublished report 20/04.
Richer, S (2020) Assessment of pollen from Llansdwell, Powys. Unpublished report 20/03.
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Richer, S (2020) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Whitechapel, London.
Unpublished report 20/02.
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Richer, S (2020) Radiocarbon dating report for Meriden Quarry, Solihull, West Midlands.
Unpublished report 20/01.
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2019
Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Sherwood Lodge, Bolsover, Derbyshire. Unpublished report 19/17.
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Richer, S (2019) Radiocarbon dating report for Lighthorne Heath, Warwickshire. Unpublished interim report 19/18.
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Richer, S (2019) Radiocarbon dating report for Barford, Warwickshire. Unpublished report 19/17.
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Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from Adur Tidal Walls, Shoreham-by-Sea. Unpublished report 19/16.
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Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Cromwell Quarry, Nottinghamshire. Unpublished report 19/15.
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Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from Land to the South of Bexhill Road, Bulverhythe, East Sussex. Unpublished report 19/14.
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Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Keadby Power Station, North Lincolnshire. Unpublished report 19/13.
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Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from Llyn Mawr, The National Botanic Gardens Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Unpublished report 19/12.
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Richer, S (2019) Survey at Bracken Hills Farm, East Lound, Haxey, North LincolnshireUnpublished report 19/11.
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Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Charter House, Coventry. Unpublished report 19/10
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Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from The Old Fire Station, Merstow Green, Evesham, Worcestershire. Unpublished report 19/08.
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Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Bevere Weir, Worcester, Worcestershire. Unpublished report 19/07.
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Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Linthaugh, Milfield Basin, Northumberland. Unpublished report 19/06.
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Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Salt Lane, Coventry. Unpublished report 19/05.
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Richer, S (2019) Radiocarbon dating report for Skeffling, East Riding of Yorkshire. Unpublished report 19/04.
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Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Limebrook Park East, Maldon, Essex. Unpublished report 19/03.
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Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Skeffling, East Yorkshire. Unpublished report 19/02.
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2018
Richer, S (2020) Full analysis of pollen from Offenham Biomass, Worcestershire. Unpublished report 20/18,
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Richer, S (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Long Hanborough, Oxon. Unpublished report 18/18.
Richer, S (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Jervaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire. Unpublished report 18/17.
Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Llyn Mawr, The National Botanic Gardens Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Unpublished report 18/16.
Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Dowth, County Meath, Ireland. Unpublished report 18/15.
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Richer, S (2018) Palaeoenvironmental assessment for Satterthwaite Bloomery, Cumbria. Unpublished report 18/14.
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Richer, S (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Land at Scorer’s Lane, Great Lumley, County Durham. Unpublished report 18/13.
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Richer, S (2018) Pollen assessment from Keadby Power Station, North Lincolnshire. Unpublished report 18/12.
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Bradley, R, Evans, C J, Pearson, E, Richer, S, and Sworn, S, (2018) Excavation at The Hive, The Butts, Worcester, Worcestershire Archaeology Research Report 10. (Contributions: pollen analysis and landscape development).
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Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Stibbe, Leicester. Unpublished report 18/11.
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Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Breadsall Hilltop, Derbyshire.
Unpublished report 18/10.
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Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Glenfield Park, Leicester. Unpublished report 18/09.
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Richer, S (2018) Peugeot Garage Cantabury, Pollen Analysis Report. Unpublished report, 18/08.
Richer, S, (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire. Unpublished report, 18/07.
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Richer, S, (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Chestnut Park, Kingswood, Gloucestershire. Unpublished report, 18/06.
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Richer, S, (2018) Chronological modelling report for Drumgold, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Unpublished report, 18/04.
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Richer, S, (2018) Full analysis of pollen from Pineham, Northamptonshire. Unpublished report, 18/03.
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Richer, S, (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Brooksby, Leicestershire. Unpublished report, 18/02.
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Richer, S, (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Felton, Northumberland. For AD Archaeology. Unpublished report, 18/01.
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2017
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Becker, K, Gearey, B, Richer, S, Hamilton, D, Chapman, H, Hegarty, M, Eogan, J, Armit, I, Dillon, M, Fioccoprile, E, McClatchie, M, O’Carroll, E, Taylor, K, Hull, G, and Duffy, S, (2017) “Seeing beyond the site” settlement and landscapes in Later Prehistoric Ireland, INSTAR-funded project AR04557, Final report, University College Cork. (Palaeoenvironmental radiocarbon dating).
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Savine, B, Richer, S, Boast, E and Loffman, G, (2017) Geoarchaeological investigations at Yorkshire Energy Park, Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire, York Archaeological Trust, report 2017/93.
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Mann, A, Griffin, L, Leary, R, McKinley, J I, Pearson, E, and Richer, S, (2017) Archaeological investigations at Whitemoor Haye Quarry, Staffordshire 2005 – 2012. A prehistoric and Roman landscape in the Tame Valley, Worcestershire Archaeology report, 2470. (Sections: ‘Pollen’ and ‘Radiocarbon dating of peat deposits’).
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Becker, K, Gearey, B, Armit, I, Dillon, M, Eogan, J, Hegarty, S, McClatchie, M, O’Carroll, E, Richer, S, Taylor, K ansd Hull, G (2017) “Seeing beyond the site” settlement and landscapes in Later Prehistoric Ireland, INSTAR-funded project AR04557, Phase 2 report, University College Cork. (Palaeoenvironmental radiocarbon dating).
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2016
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Becker, K, Gearey, B, McClatchie, M, Eogan, J, Armit, I, Nagle, C and Richer, S, (2016) “Seeing beyond the site” settlement and landscapes in Later Prehistoric Ireland, INSTAR-funded project AR04557, Phase 1 report., University College Cork. (Palaeoenvironmental radiocarbon dating).
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Richer, S, (2016) Full analysis of pollen from Willington Quarry, Derbyshire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2305.
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Richer, S, (2016) Pollen presence/absence assessment from Trent Farm Quarry, Derbyshire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2295.
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Richer, S, (2016) Pollen presence/absence assessment from Lockington, Leicestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report.
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Richer, S, (2015) Archaeological watching brief at Powick Bridge, Powick, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2254.
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2015
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Richer, S, (2015) Geoarchaeological borehole survey at Hoobrook Link Road Bridge, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2245.
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Richer, S, and Daffern, N, (2015) Pollen analysis. In A Mann et al. Excavations at Town Mill, Hanbury Road, Droitwich, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2205.
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Richer, S, and Mann, A, (2015) Environmental analysis. In G Arnold and M Nicholson Archaeological investigations at Vineyards Weir, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2183. (‘Pollen’ and ‘Radiocarbon dating’).
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Richer, S, (2015) Scientific dating. In A Mann, et al. Excavations at Town Mill, Hanbury Road, Droitwich, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2205.
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Richer, S, (2015) Pollen analysis. In G Arnold, Archaeological watching brief of Pershore Weir Turbines, rear of Bridge Street, Pershore, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2193.
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Daffern, N, Richer, S, and Marshall, P (2015) Radiocarbon Dating. In T Vaughan and J Webster, Archaeological investigations on the Flood Alleviation Scheme, Kempsey, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2189.
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2014
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Richer, S, (2014) Assessment of the environmental remains from Abbey Bridge, Evesham, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2140. (Pollen analysis).
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Richer, S, (2014) Auger Survey at Church Hill Middle School, Redditch, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2125.
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Richer, S, (2014) Environmental remains from an evaluation on land off Hawthorn Rise, Tibberton, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology Service, Worcestershire County Council, report 2123. (Pollen analysis).
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Journal Articles
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Marchant, R, Richer, S, Boles, O, Capitani, C, Courtney-Mustaphi ,CJ, Lane, P, Prendergast, ME, Stump, D, de Cort, G, Kaplan, JO, Phelps, L, Kay, A, Olago, D, Petek, N, Platts, P, Punwong, P, Widgren, M, Wynne-Jones, S, Ferro-Vázquez, C, Benard, J, Boivin, N, Crowther, A, Cuní-Sanchez, A, Deere, NJ, Ekblom, A, Farmer, J, Finch J, Fuller, D, Gaillard-Lemdahl, M-J, Gillson, L, Githumbi, E, Kabora, T, Kariuki, R, Kinyanjui, R, Kyazike, E, Lang, C, Leiju, J, Morrison, KD, Muiruri, V, Mumbi, C, Muthoni, R, Muzuka, A, Ndiema, E, Nzabandora, CK, Onjala, I, Pas Schrijver, A, Rucina, S, Shoemaker, A, Thornton-Barnett, S, van der Plas, G, Watson, EE, Williamson, D, Wright, D (2018). Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present. Earth-Science Reviews, 178, 322–37
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Githumbi EN, Kariuki R, Shoemaker A, Courtney-Mustaphi CJ, Chuhilla M, Richer S, Lane P and Marchant R, (2018). Pollen, People and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Ecosystem Change at Amboseli, Kenya. Front. Earth Sci., 5, 113. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00113.
Walsh, K, Richer, S, and de Beaulieu, J-L, (2006) Attitudes to altitude: changing meanings and perceptions within a “marginal” Alpine landscape – the integration of palaeoecological and archaeological data in a high-altitude landscape in the French Alps, World Archaeology, 38(3), 436–454.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438240600813392.
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Walsh, K, Court-Picon, M, de Beaulieu, J-L, Guiter, F, Mocci, F, Richer, S, Sinet, R, Talon, B and Tzortzis, S, (2014) A historical ecology of the Ecrins (Southern French Alps): Archaeology and palaeoecology of the Mesolithic to the medieval period, Quaternary International, 353(5), 52–73.doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.060.
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Richer, S (2017) ‘The site that slipped through the ‘lime decline’ net: A Holocene history of Tilia at Shrawley Wood, Worcestershire, UK’, Quaternary Newsletter, 140.
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Mocci, F, Walsh, K, Richer, S, Talon, B, Tzortzis, S, Martinez, JMP, and Bressy, C, (2007) Archéologie et paléoenvironnement dans les Alpes méridionales françaises, Hauts massifs de l’Argentiérois, du Champsaur et de l’Ubaye, Hautes-Alpes et Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Néolithique final-début de l’Antiquité. In Cahiers de Paléoenvironnement, 6, 253–272.
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Books
Richer, S, (2013) Writing a dissertation – the essential guide. Peterborough: Need2Know.
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Book Chapters
Richer, S, (2018) ‘Peat Deposits’. In S López Varela (ed) The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences.
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Barrett J H, Farr, L R, Redhouse, D, Richer, S, Zimmermann J, Sharpe L, Ovenden S, Moore J, Poller T, Milek, K B, Simpson I A, Smith, M, Gourley, B, and O’Connor, T, (2012) Quoygrew and its landscape context. In JH Barrett (ed), Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900–1600. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 25–46.
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Tzortzis, S, Mocci, F, Walsh, K, Talon, B, Court-Picon, M, Dumas, V, Py, V and Richer, S, (2008) Les massifs de l’Argentiérois du Mésolithique au début de l’Antiquité. In D Garcia and H Richard, (eds), Le peuplement de l’arc alpin. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 123–8.
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Publications for a wider audience
Policy Brief: Stump, D and Richer, S, (2017) ‘Terraces are good, but sediment traps are better’. AAREA Policy Brief No. 1, University of York.
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Film: ‘Grains of Truth’, in conjunction with Ambient Film. Archaeological research in East Africa. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJKal9rkFKo
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Article: Richer, S, and Stump, D, (2016) ‘More than just a terrace: a past perspective on the multifunctional agriculture of Konso, Ethiopia’ in World Farming Organisation publication F@rmletters. Download available here.
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Article: Richer, S, and Lang, C, (2017) ‘Archaeological evidence for shifting irrigation and cultivation practices at Engaruka, Tanzania’ RAMSAR newsletter article.
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Recipe book: Richer, S and Trustram Eve, N, (2013) Recipes from History: Chocolate. The Copper Pot, Bewdley.
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Recipe book: Trustram Eve, N and Richer, S, (2012) Recipes from History: Damsons. The Copper Pot, Bewdley.
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