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- About
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- Email Address
- t.mighall@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274352
- Office Address
- G22 St Mary's, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
Keele University: Environmental Research Unit. Position: Research Assistant Oct-Dec 1990.
Brunel University: Department of Geography & Geology. Position: Temporary Lecturer Feb-July 1991.
Coventry University: Geography Subject Area. Position: Lecturer (1991-1994) Senior Lecturer (1994-2005).
University of Aberdeen: Department of Geography & Environment, School of Geosciences (2005-present) Senior Lecturer in Palaeoecology.
External Memberships
Co-editor, Scottish Geographical Journal http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RSGJ
NERC Peer Review College Member
Membership of External Bodies
Association of Environmental Archaeology
Early Mines Research Group
Historical Metallurgy Society
Irish Quaternary Association
Quaternary Research Association
Royal Scottish Geographical Society
The Prehistoric Society
- Research
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Research Overview
- Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis
- Peat geochemistry and reconstructing palaeo-pollution records from bogs and lakes
- Holocene vegetational history
- Holocene environmental change
Current Research
Recent publications
Langford, H.E. et al. 2013: Palaeoecology of a late MIS7 interglacial deposit from eastern England. Quaternary international http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quatint.2013.05.046
Crew, P. & Mighall, T.M. 2013. The fuel supply and woodland management at a 14th century bloomery in Snowdonia, a multi-disciplinary approach. In Humphris, J. & Rehren, T. (eds) The World of Iron. London: Archetype Publications, 473-482.
Mighall, TM, Chambers, FM, Timberlake, S & O’Brien, WF. 2012. Characterising vegetation changes in former mining and metalworking areas during prehistoric and Roman times. Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 20, 117-130.
Ongoing Research Projects
- Land degradation and environmental change in the Karoo, Eastern Cape, South Africa. See http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/research/other/karoo.php
- The function and environmental impact of burnt mounds in prehistory.
- The ecology and landscapes of early medieval royal centres.
- Placing early mining and metalworking into its environmental context. See http://www.earlyminesresearchgroup.org.uk/
- Holocene environmental changes in NW Iberia
- Publications
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Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens
Science Advances, vol. 9, no. 45, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPeatlands
The Environment in Galicia: A Book of Images: Galician Environment Through Images. Núñez-Delgado, A., Álvarez-Rodríguez, E., Fernández-Calviño, D. (eds.). Springer International Publishing AG, pp. 149-178, 30 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33114-5_10
Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation
Land, vol. 12, no. 5, 986Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land12050986
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21098/1/Serge_etal_Testing_effect_pollen_VOR.pdf
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The Midlands of England: Economic Backwater or an Agricultural Powerhouse?: Environmental Evidence from Prehistory to Modern Times Recorded in Sediments from Aqualate Mere, Central England, UK
Environmental ArchaeologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesClimate Change, Fire and Human Activity Drive Vegetation Change during the Last Eight Millennia in the Xistral Mountains of NW Iberia
Quaternary , vol. 6, no. 1, 5Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIron Age and Roman Mining at Alderley Edge, Cheshire: An archaeological excavation of Pot Shaft, Engine Vein in 1997
Mining History: The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 29-53Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://pdmhs.co.uk/mining-history/
Lake and crannog: A 2500-year palaeoenvironmental record of continuity and change in NE Scotland
Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 285, 107532Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEnvironmental challenges for the medieval North Atlantic world
Environmental Archaeology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 123-126Contributions to Journals: EditorialsIdentifying Social Transformations and Crisis during the Pre-Monastic to Post-Viking era on Iona: New Insights from a Palynological and Palaeoentomological Perspective
Environmental Archaeology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 168-192Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCopper Mining in the Bronze Age at Mynydd Parys, Anglesey, Wales
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 87, pp. 261–291Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReply to discussion on ‘Deglaciation and neotectonics in SE Raasay, Scottish Inner Hebrides’, by Smith et al. 2021 (SJG, 57, 106–116)
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 57, no. 2, sjg2021-014Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2021-014
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Deglaciation and neotectonics in South East Raasay, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 57, no. 2, sjg2021-006Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLong-term development and trajectories of inferred lake-water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes
Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 2408-2422Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSettlement, landscape and land-use change at a Pictish Elite Centre: Assessing the palaeoecological record for economic continuity and social change at Rhynie in N.E. Scotland
The Holocene, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 897-914Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComment on: “A novel approach to peatlands as archives of total cumulative spatial pollution loads from atmospheric deposition of airborne elements complementary to EMEP data: Priority pollutants (Pb, Cd, Hg)” by Ewa Miszczak, Sebastian Stefaniak, Adam Michczyński, Eiliv Steinnes and Irena Twardowska
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 737, 138699Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesLate Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics in central-eastern Brazil: insights from a ~35k cal a BP peat record in the Cerrado biome
Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 664-676Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHuman bones tell the story of atmospheric mercury and lead exposure at the edge of Roman World
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 710, 136319Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHolocene atmospheric dust deposition in NW Spain
The Holocene, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 507-518Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619875193
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12960/1/TPD_Holocene_dust_AAM_and_Figs.pdf
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Uncertainty in geomorphological responses to climate change
Climatic Change, vol. 156, no. 1-2, pp. 69-86Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPalaeoecological research in the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen
Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 135, no. 3-4, pp. 287-315Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2019.1695895
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Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming
Nature Climate Change, vol. 8, pp. 907-913Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIndustrial-era lead and mercury contamination in southern Greenland implicates North American sources
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 613-614, pp. 919-930Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVegetation Changes and Woodland Management Associated with a Prehistoric to Medieval Burnt Mound Complex at Ballygawley, Northern Ireland
Environmental Archaeology, vol. 23, no. 3 SI, pp. 267-285Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2017.1370856
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12003/1/Burnt_Mounds.pdf
Investigating molecular changes in organic matter composition in two Holocene lake-sediment records from central Sweden using pyrolysis-GC/MS
Journal of geophysical research-Biogeosciences, vol. 122, no. 6, pp. 1423-1438Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe potential for gamma-emitting radionuclides to contribute to an understanding of erosion processes in South Africa
Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences , vol. 375, pp. 29-34Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-375-29-2017
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8291/1/piahs_375_29_2017.pdf
Did prehistoric and Roman mining and metallurgy have a significant impact on vegetation?
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 11, pp. 613-625Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.12.021
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9897/1/final_manuscript.pdf
The Environmental Context and Function of Burnt-Mounds: New Studies of Irish Fulachtaí Fiadh
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vol. 82, pp. 259-290Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Palaeoenvironmental Investigation of Two Prehistoric Burnt Mound Sites in Northern Ireland
Geoarchaeology-An International Journal, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 506-529Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21552
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8846/1/Geoarchaeology_paper.pdf
Influence of climate change and human activities on the organic and inorganic composition of peat during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (El Payo mire, W Spain)
The Holocene, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1290-1303Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEarly atmospheric metal pollution provides evidence for Chalcolithic/Bronze Age mining and metallurgy in Southwestern Europe
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 545-546, pp. 398-406Contributions to Journals: ArticlesClimate changes, lead pollution and soil erosion in south Greenland over the past 700 years
Quaternary Research, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 159-173Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNew research into Roman metal mining in Britain
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsIdentifying evidence for past mining and metallurgy from a record of metal contamination preserved in an ombrotrophic mire near Leadhills, SW Scotland, UK
The Holocene, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 1719-1730Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReconstructing the impact of human activities in a NW Iberian Roman mining landscape for the last 2500 years
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 50, pp. 208-218Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPalaeoecology of a late MIS7 interglacial deposit from eastern England
Quaternary International, vol. 341, pp. 27-45Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.046
A 3300-year atmospheric metal contamination record from Raeburn Flow raised bog, south west Scotland
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 1-11Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.01.011
Atmospheric Pb pollution in N Iberia during the late Iron Age/Roman times reconstructed using the high-resolution record of La Molina mire (Asturias, Spain)
Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 71-86Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-013-9705-y
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Prehistoric land use at an archaeological hot-spot (the rock art park of Campo Lameiro, NW Spain) inferred from charcoal, synanthropic pollen and non-pollen palynomorph proxies
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 1518-1527Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.09.024
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Five thousand years of atmospheric Ni, Zn, As, and Cd deposition recorded in bogs from NW Iberia: prehistoric and historic anthropogenic contributions
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 764-777Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.07.010
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Changing sediment yield and sediment dynamics in the karoo uplands, south africa: post-european impacts
Land Degradation & Development, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 508-522Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2180
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Reconstructing Recent Land Degradation In The Semi-Arid Karoo Of South Africa: A palaeoecological study at Compassberg, Eastern Cpe
Land Degradation & Development, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 523-533Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2176
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The Holme Pierrepont sand and gravel and the timing of Middle and Late Devensian floodplain aggradation in the English Midlands
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 419-431Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.03.009
The complementary power of pH and lake-water organic carbon reconstructions for discerning the influences on surface waters across decadal to millennial time scales
Biogeosciences, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 2717-2727Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-2717-2011
An integrated geochemical and palynological study of human impacts, soil erosion and storminess from southern Greenland since c. AD 1000
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, vol. 295, no. 1-2, pp. 19-30Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.011
Holocene relative sea levels and related prehistoric activity in the Forth lowland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 29, no. 17-18, pp. 2382-2410Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.003
Editorial: Scottish Geographical Journal (126)
Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 63Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541003780397
Anthropogenic Forcings on the Surficial Osmium Cycle
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 881-887Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/es901887f
Environmental stress and landscape recovery in a semi-arid area, the Karoo, South Africa
Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 64-75Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541003711038
An integrated lake-catchment approach for determining sediment source changes at Aqualate Mere, Central England
Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 215-232Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-008-9272-9
Ancient copper and lead pollution records from a raised bog complex in Central Wales, UK
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1504-1515Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.005
Using mineral magnetism to characterise ironworking and to detect its evidence in peat bogs
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 130-139Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.07.015
Vegetation change during the Mesolithic and Neolithic on the Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork, south-west Ireland
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 617-628Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-007-0136-4
Post-european settlement impacts on erosion and land degradation; A case study using farm reservoir sedimentation in the eastern cape, South Africa
Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Climate-driven enrichment of pollutants in peatlands
Biogeosciences, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 905-911Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-4-905-2007
Holocene relative sea level changes in a glacio-isostatic area: New data from south-west Scotland, United Kingdom
Marine Geology, vol. 242, no. 1-3, pp. 5-26Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2006.09.015
Proxy climate and vegetation changes during the last five millennia in NW Iberia. Pollen and non pollen palynomorph data from two ombrotrophic peat bogs in the North Western Iberian Peninsula.
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 141, pp. 203-223Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.013
Post-depositional Cs-137 mobility in the sediments of three shallow coastal lagoons, SW England
Journal of Paleolimnology, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 881-895Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-005-6187-6
The effect of sediment source changes on pollen records in Lake Sediments
The Interactions Between Sediments and Water. Kronvang, B., Faganeli, J., Ogrinc, N. (eds.). Springer Netherlands, pp. 313-319, 7 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5478-5_32
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Using bog archives to reconstruct paleo-pollution and vegetation change during the late Holocene. (Eds.) Martini P, Martinez Cortizas A, Chesworth W
Peatlands: Evolution and Records of Environmental and Climatic Changes, pp. 413-432, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersLinking changes in atmospheric dust deposition, vegetation evolution and human activities in NW Spain during the last 5,300 years
The Holocene, vol. 15, pp. 698-706Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683605hl834rp
Mineral deficiency and the prescence of Pinus sylvestris on mires during the Mid- to Late Holocence: palaeoecological data from Cadogan's Bog, Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork
The Holocene, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 95-109Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA record of atmospheric pollution and vegetation change as recorded in three peat bogs from the Northern Pennines Pb-Zn orefield
Environmental Archaeology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 13-38Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLate Quaternary river terrace developments in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Southwest Ireland
Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 23, no. 16-17, pp. 1785-1801Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.12.001
Periglacial trimlines and former nunataks of the last glacial maximum: the Gap of Dunloe, Southwest Ireland
Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 87-98Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.807
Holocene relative sea level change in the lower Nith valley and estuary
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 39, pp. 97-120Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRelative sea-level changes in the Solway Firth, Southwest Scotland
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh-Earth, vol. 93, pp. 301-331Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe impact of Iron Age copper mining on vegetation: palaeoecological evidence from Campolungo, Bienno, Lombard Alps, Northern Italy
Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi, vol. 11, pp. 253-271Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeochemical evidence for atmospheric pollution derived from prehistoric copper mining at Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, Mid-Wales
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 292, pp. 69-80Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00027-X
A palaeoenvironmental investigation of mine sediments from Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, mid-Wales
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 1161-1188Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2001.0772
An atmospheric pollution history for Pb-Zn mining in the Ystwyth Valley, Dyfed, mid-Wales, UK
Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, vol. 2, pp. 175-184Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/1467-787302-021
Intertidal peat deposits and Early Holocence relative sea-level changes, Traigh Eiliraig, Isle of Coll, Scottish Hebrides
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 11-18Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHolocene alluvial-fan development in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, southwest Ireland
Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 112, no. 12, pp. 1834-1849Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEarly Holocene environments of the River Ure near Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK
Proceedings Of The Yorkshire Geological Society, vol. 53, pp. 31-41Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvidence for Mediaeval soil erosion in the South Hams region of Devon, UK
The Holocene, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 261-271Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLate Devensian and Holocene relative sea level and environmental changes from an isolation basin in southern Skye
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 36, pp. 73-86Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTracing atmospheric metal mining pollution in blanket peat
Tracers in Geomorphology. Foster, I. D. L. (ed.). John Wiley & Sons, pp. 101-121, 21 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSedimentology, palaeoecology and geochronology of Last Interglacial deposits from Deeping St James, Lincolnshire, England
Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 411-436Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeomorphic evidence of Younger Dryas glaciation in the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, south west Ireland
Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 75-90Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEarly holocene pollen and molluscan records from Enfield Lock, Middlesex, UK
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 107, pp. 114Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHOLOCENE VEGETATION HISTORY AND HUMAN IMPACT AT BRYN-Y-CASTELL, SNOWDONIA, NORTH WALES
New Phytologist, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 299-321Contributions to Journals: Articles