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2025
Exploring the effects of post-medieval crofting on the modern hillside ecosystem: Vegetation history as cultural legacy
Smith, L., Oliver, J., Plunkett, G., Britton, K. & Schofield, J. E., Feb 2025, Cultural landscapes of North-east Scotland: Collaborative research in history and archaeology. Shepherd, C. (ed.). Oxford: Oxbow, p. 145-158Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Pan-European atmospheric lead pollution, enhanced blood lead levels, and cognitive decline from Roman-era mining and smelting
McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N. J., Plach, A., Stohl, A., Smith, N.-K., Plunkett, G., Vinther, B. M., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P., Fritzche, D., Wensman, S., Brugger, S. O., MacDonald, B. & Wilson, A., 06 Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The 1831 CE mystery eruption identified as Zavaritskii caldera, Simushir Island (Kurils)
Hutchison, W., Sugden, P., Burke, A., Abbott, P., Ponomareva, V. V., Dirksen, O., Portnyagin, M. V., MacInnes, B., Bourgeois, J., Fitzhugh, B., Verkerk, M., Aubry, T. J., Engwell, S. L., Svensson, A., Chellman, N. J., McConnell, J. R., Davies, S., Sigl, M. & Plunkett, G., 07 Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122, 1, 10 p., e2416699122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2024
Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period
Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Abbott, P. M., Behrans, M., Burke, A., Chellman, N., Cook, E., Fleitmann, D., Hörhold, M., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Óladóttir, B. A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Sliwinski, J. T., Sugden, P., Twarloh, B. & Sigl, M., 10 Apr 2024, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 18 p., 194.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High‐resolution ice‐core analyses identify the Eldgjá eruption and a cluster of Icelandic and trans‐continental tephras between 936 and 943 CE
Hutchison, W., Gabriel, I., Plunkett, G., Burke, A., Sugden, P., Innes, H., Davies, S., Moreland, W. M., Krüger, K., Wilson, R., Vinther, B. M., Dahl-Jensen, D., Freitag, J., Oppenheimer, C., Chellman, N. J., Sigl, M. & McConnell, J. R., 28 Aug 2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 129, 16, 21 p., e2023JD040142.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hydrological fluctuations in the Tarim Basin, northwest China, over the past millennium
Li, K., Qin, X., Plunkett, G., Brown, D., Xu, B., Zhang, L., Gu, Z., Mu, G., Jia, H., Yin, Z. & Liu, J., 01 May 2024, In: Geology. 52, 5, p. 367-372 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Legendary landscapes of the "wee county": the Quaternary of Co. Louth
Plunkett, G. (Editor), Smazal, R. (Editor), Delaney, C. (Editor) & Knight, J. (Editor), 01 Apr 2024, Belfast: Irish Quaternary Association. 200 p. (IQUA Field Guide; vol. 37)Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
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Major Holocene cryptotephras layers identified from Jeju Island, Republic of Korea: Implications for regional volcanic eruptions and environmental changes
Sun, C., Plunkett, G., Park, J., Guo, Z. & Liu, J., 05 Oct 2024, (Early online date) In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 112530.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mike Baillie – Slices of time
Plunkett, G., Reimer, P., Blaauw, M., Brown, D. M., Palmer, J. G. & Pilcher, J., 21 Oct 2024, (Early online date) In: Radiocarbon.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Multi-proxy investigations of Bronze Age diet and environment in the hyper-arid eastern Tarim Basin (Lop Nur), northwest China
Li, K., Qin, X., Plunkett, G., Presslee, S., Spengler , R., Xu, B., Wu, Y., Tian, X., Wei, D., Wang, C., Shao, H., Mu, G., Jia, H., Li, W., Feng, J. & Liu, J., Nov 2024, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 171, 106089.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tephrochronology
Alloway, B. V., Lowe, D. J., Jensen, B. J. L. & Plunkett, G., 18 Sept 2024, Encyclopedia of quaternary science. Elias, S. A. (ed.). 3rd ed. Elsevier, Vol. 5. p. 780-838Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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The dynamics of Bronze Age upland settlements in Ireland and northern Britain: a comparative perspective
Edwards, C., Brandherm, D., O’DriscOll, J. & Plunkett, G., 12 Apr 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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The missing woodland story: implications of 1700 years of stand-scale change on ‘naturalness’ and managing remnant broadleaved woodlands
Everard, A., Schofield, J. E., Mighall, T., Timpany, S. & Plunkett, G., 14 Nov 2024, (Early online date) In: People and Nature.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2023
Editorial
Plunkett, G., 2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature. 123C, p. i-ii 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Environmental history of the Ballynahatty area
Plunkett, G., 15 Jun 2023, Ballynahatty: excavations in a Neolithic monumental landscape. Hartwell, B., Gormley, S., Brogan, C. & Malone, C. (eds.). Oxbow, p. 28-30Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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More than just a dating technique: determining the integrity of lake sediment records through tephrochronology
Plunkett, G., Fonville, T., van den Hardenbroek, M., Henderson, A., Mackay, H., Pears, B., Gleeson, P., Alsos, I. & Brown, A., 14 Jul 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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The dynamics of Bronze Age upland settlements in Ireland and northern Britain: a comparative perspective
Edwards, C., Brandherm, D., O’DriscOll, J. & Plunkett, G., 08 Sept 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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The significance of volcanic ash in Greenland ice cores during the Common Era
Plunkett, G., Sigl, M., McConnell, J. R., Pilcher, J. R. & Chellman, N. J., 01 Feb 2023, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 301, 24 p., 107936.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2022
Bucking the trend: Population resilience in a marginal environment
Plunkett, G. & Swindles, G. T., 27 Apr 2022, In: PLOS ONE. 17, 4, 17 p., e0266680.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies-from collection through analysis
Wallace, K. L., Bursik, M. I., Kuehn, S., Kurbatov, A. V., Abbott, P., Bonadonna, C., Cashman, K., Davies, S. M., Jensen, B., Lane, C., Plunkett, G., Smith, V. C., Tomlinson, E., Thordarsson, T. & Walker, J. D., 26 Jul 2022, In: Scientific Data. 9, 447.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Four widespread East Asian tephra marker horizons during early MIS 3: ∼60–50 ka tephrostratigraphy of Huguangyan Maar Lake southern China
Sun, C., Plunkett, G., Wang, L., Mingram, J., Han, J., Chu, G. & Liu, J., 01 Mar 2022, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 279, 10 p., 107389.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: Implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology
Plunkett, G., Sigl, M., Schwaiger, H. F., Tomlinson, E. L., Toohey, M., McConnell, J. R., Pilcher, J. R., Hasegawa, T. & Siebe, C., 18 Jan 2022, In: Climate of the Past. 18, 1, p. 45–65Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
Mackay, H., Plunkett, G., Jensen, B., Aubry, T. J., Corona, C., Kim, W. M., Toohey, M., Sigl, M., Stoffel, M., Anchukaitis, K. J., Raible, C., Bolton, M. S., Manning, J. G., Newfield, T. P., Di Cosmo, N., Ludlow, F., Kostick, C., Yang, Z., Coyle McClung, L. & Amesbury, M. & 8 others, , 29 Jun 2022, In: Climate of the Past. 18, p. 1475–1508Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2021
~5.9 cal ka BP Towada-Chuseri tephra from Towada volcano: A mid-Holocene marker layer from Japan to northeast China
Sun, C., Plunkett, G., Zhu, Z., Zhang, L., Zhang, B., Zhang, D., Mao, Q., You, H., Wang, L., Chu, G. & Liu, J., 01 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 36, 7, p. 1143-1148 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A latest Pleistocene and Holocene composite tephrostratigraphic framework for northeastern North America
Jensen, B. J. L., Davies, L., Nolan, C., Pyne-O'Donnell, S., Monteath, A. J., Ponomareva, V., Portnyagin, M., Booth, R., Bursik, M., Cook, E., Plunkett, G., Vallance, J. W., Luo, Y., Cwynar, L. C., Hughes, P. & Pearson, D. G., 15 Nov 2021, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 272, 107242.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An Integrated Late Pleistocene to Holocene Tephrostratigraphic Framework for South-East and East Asia
Sun, C., Wang, L., Plunkett, G., Zhang, E. & Liu, J., 16 Mar 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 5, e2020GL090582.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cryptotephra from the Icelandic Veiðivötn 1477CE eruption in a Greenland ice core: confirming the dating of volcanic events in the 1450sCE and assessing the eruption’s climatic impact
Abbott, P. M., Plunkett, G., Corona, C., Chellman, N. J., McConnell, J. R., Pilcher, J. R., Stoffel, M. & Sigl, M., 04 Mar 2021, In: Climate of the Past. 17, 2, p. 565–585Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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DNA evidence in lake sediments used to reconstruct long term land use changes on Scottish Islands
Fonville, T., Pears, B., Brown, A. G., Alsos, I. G., Mackay, H., Henderson, A. C. G., van den Hardenbroek, M., Gleeson, P. & Plunkett, G., 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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Environmental setting
Bermingham, N. & Plunkett, G., 2021, Between the Meadows: The archaeology of Edercloon on the N4 Dromod-Roosky Bypass. Moore, C. (ed.). Dublin: Transport Infrastructure Ireland, p. 26-43Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Hemispheric black carbon increase after the 13th-century Māori arrival in New Zealand
McConnell, J., Chellman, N. J., Mulvaney, R., Eckhardt, S., Stohl, A., Plunkett, G., Kipfstuhl, S., Freitag, J., Isaksson, E., Gleason, K. E., Brugger, S. O., McWethy, D. B., Abram, N. J., Liu, P. & Aristarain, A. J., 07 Oct 2021, In: Nature. 598, p. 82–85Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Microbiology of a NaCl stalactite 'salticle' formed within Triassic halite
Thompson, T. P., Kelly, S. A., Skvortsov, T., Plunkett, G., Ruffell, A., Hallsworth, J. E., Hopps, J. & Gilmore, B. F., 19 May 2021, (Early online date) In: Environmental Microbiology. 23, 7, p. 3881-3895 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2020
Analysis of thatch from two historic buildings at Magilligan, Co. Tyrone
Plunkett, G., 2020, (Unpublished)Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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A palynological perspective on “An Archaeology of Ireland for the Information Age”
Plunkett, G., 2020, In: Emania. 25, p. 39-43Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Cultural change and the climate record in final prehistoric and early medieval Ireland
Coyle McClung, L. & Plunkett, G., 25 Mar 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Section C, Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature. 120C, p. 129-158Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cultural land-use and vegetation dynamics in the uplands of northern Portugal from the middle Ages to the Modern period
Sá Ferreira, C., Plunkett, G. & Fontes, L., 20 Jun 2020, In: Journal of Quaternary Science. 35, 5, p. 695-705 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Excavations at the Abbey Lane Theatre, Abbey Lane, Armagh
McSparron, C., Murray, E., Plunkett, G. & Scott, B. G., 11 Nov 2020, In: Ulster Journal of Archaeology. 75, p. 16-33Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom
McConnell, J. R., Sigl, M., Plunkett, G., Burke, A., Kim, W. M., Raible, C. C., Wilson, A. I., Joseph, M., Ludlow, F., Chellman, N., Innes, H. M., Yang, Z., Larsen, J. F., Schaefer, J. R., Kipfstuhl , S., Mojtabavi, S., Wilhelms , F., Opel, T., Meyer, H. & Steffensen, J. P., 02 Jul 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 17, 27, p. 15443-15449 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Filling the gaps: a chronology of Bronze Age settlement in Ireland
Ginn, V. & Plunkett, G., Dec 2020, In: Journal of Irish Archaeology. XXIXResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reply to Strunz and Braeckel: Agricultural failures logically link historical events to extreme climate following the 43 BCE Okmok eruption
McConnell, J. R., Sigl, M., Plunkett, G., Wilson, A. I., Manning, J. G., Ludlow, F. & Chellman, N., 24 Nov 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter
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Siccitas magna ultra modum: Examining the occurrence and societal impact of droughts in Prehistoric Ireland
Plunkett, G., Brown, D. M. & Swindles, G. T., 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Section C, Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature. 120C, p. 83-104 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Smoking guns and volcanic ash: the importance of sparse tephras in Greenland ice cores
Plunkett, G., Sigl, M., Pilcher, J., McConnell, J., Chellman, N., Steffensen, J. P. & Büntgen, U., 08 Jun 2020, In: Polar Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The magnitude and impact of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of Ilopango, El Salvador
Smith, V. C., Costa, A., Aguirre-Díaz, G., Pedrazzi, D., Scifo, A., Plunkett, G., Poret, M., Tournigand, P. Y., Miles, D., Dee, M. W., McConnell, J. R., Sunyé-Puchol, I., Harris, P. D., Sigl, M., Pilcher, J. R., Chellman, N. & Gutiérrez, E., 20 Oct 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 42, p. 26061-26068 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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2019
A Late Bronze Age field system and settlement on the Antrim Plateau: preliminary results
Gardiner, M., Megarry, W. P. & Plunkett, G., 01 Dec 2019, In: Journal of Irish Archaeology. 28, p. 49-57Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A palynological investigation of Later Mesolithic to Early Neolithic activity at Derragh Island, County Longford
Perkins, J., Basell, L. & Plunkett, G., Jul 2019, Life and Adaptation in the Irish Wetlands during the Holocene: XX INQUA Congress Field Guide. Plunkett, G., Stuijts, I. & McDermott, C. (eds.). Irish Quaternary Association, p. 44 58 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Cryptotephra and sulphur in polar ice: a powerful tandem for climate research
Sigl, M., Plunkett, G., McConnell, J. R., Iverson, N. & Toohey, M., 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Holocene tephra studies in Ireland
Plunkett, G. & Swindles, G., 2019, Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Field Guide. Roe , H. M., Whitehouse, N. J. & Knight, J. (eds.). London: Quaternary Research Association, p. 48-53 (QRA Field Guides).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Irish wetlands during the Holocene
Plunkett, G., Stuijts, I. & McDermott, C., Jul 2019, Life and Adaptation in the Irish Wetlands during the Holocene: Irish Quaternary Association, Dublin XX INQUA Congress Field Guide. Plunkett, G., Stuijts, I. & McDermott, C. (eds.). Irish Quaternary Association, p. 1 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Life and adaptation in the Irish Wetlands during the Holocene
Plunkett, G. (Editor), Stuijts, I. (Editor) & McDermott, C. (Editor), Jul 2019, 91 p. Dublin : Irish Quaternary Association.Research output: Other contribution
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Palaeolimnological analysis of sulphate deposition events following large volcanic eruptions in historical times
Hammarlund, D., Silvester, E., Bindler, R., Björn, E., Ljung, K., Ojala, A., Persson, P., Plunkett, G. & Skyllberg, U., 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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Refining the statistical parameters for constructing tree-ring chronologies using short-lived species: alder (Alnus glutinosa Gaertn)
Barrett, M.-T., Brown, D. & Plunkett, G., 01 Jun 2019, In: Dendrochronologia. 55, p. 16-24Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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