Dr Gill Plunkett
Gill Plunkett
Qualifications
BA 1992 (University College Dublin) Archaeology, Psychology
MSc 1996 (QUB) Archaeology & Palaeoecology
PhD 1999 (QUB)
Lecturer
Email: g.plunkett@qub.ac.uk
Address
Room 01035, Palaeoecology Centre
School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology,
Queen’s University Belfast,
Belfast BT7 1NN,
Northern Ireland
Telephone
+44 (0)28 90973184 (Internal: extn 3184)
Current Teaching:
ARP2002 Prehistoric Ireland
GAP2001 Methods for Dating the Past
GAP1002 Reconstructing Past Environments
GAP7040 Chronology: Methods and Applications
GAP7202 Issues in Irish and World Archaeology
Current Administrative Roles:
Organiser of the Environmental Change seminars
Chair of Environmental Change focus group Palaeoecology-Chronology
Palaeo Lab co-ordinator
Current Research: Environmental Change
Early to mid-Holocene environment at Millin Bay, Co. Down (with Dr Rick Schulting, University of Oxford)
Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions at the wetland archaeological complex at Edercloon, Co. Longford
The palaeoenvironmental context of the Faddan More manuscript
Palaeoclimatic and landuse reconstructions at Slievanorra, Co. Antrim (with Dr Graeme Swindles, University of Leeds)
Holocene tephras from the Greenland ice cores (with Dr Sarah Coulter, Prof. Jonathan Pilcher, Prof. Valerie Hall, Prof. Mike Baillie and the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
Research students
Publications:
Plunkett, G., Coulter, S., Pilcher, J.R., Hall, V.A., Baillie, M.G.L., Steffenson, J.-P., Vinther, B., Clausen, H.B. & Johnsen, S.J. 2011 Tephrochronological investigation of mid- to late Holocene acid signals in Greenland ice cores. Abstract V11D-2535 presented 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.
Swindles, G.T., Lawson, I.T., Savov, I.P., Connor, C.B. & Plunkett, G. 2011 A 7000-year perspective on volcanic ash clouds affecting Northern Europe. Geology 39, 887-890.
Swindles, G.T. & Plunkett, G. 2011 The methodological basis for fine-resolution, multi-proxy reconstructions of ombrotrophic peat bog surface wetness: comments. Boreas 40, 379-381.
Coulter, S.E., Pilcher, J.R., Hall, V.A., Plunkett, G. & Davies, S.M. 2010 Testing the reliability of the JEOL FEGSEM 6500F electron microprobe for quantitative major element analysis of glass shards from rhyolitic tephra. Boreas 39, 163-169.
Swindles, G.T. & Plunkett, G. 2010 Testing the palaeoclimate significance of the Northern Irish bog oak record. The Holocene 20, 155-159.
Swindles, G.T., De Vleeschouwer, F. & Plunkett, G. 2010. Dating peat profiles using tephra: stratigraphy, geochemistry and chronology. Mires and Peat 7, 1-9.
Wilson, P. & Plunkett, G. 2010 Age and palaeoenvironmental significance of an inter-tidal peat bed at the Bann estuary, Co. Londonderry. Irish Geography 43, 265-275.
Kerr, T.R., Swindles, G.T. & Plunkett, G. 2009 Making hay while the sun shines? Socio-economic change, cereal production and climatic deterioration in Early Medieval Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 2868-2874.
Plunkett, G. 2009 Land-use patterns and cultural change in the Middle to Late Bronze Age in Ireland: inferences from the pollen record. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18, 273-295.
Plunkett, G ., Whitehouse, N.J., Hall, V.A., Charman, D.J., Blaauw, M., Kelly, E. & Mulhall, I. 2009 A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation of the findspot of an Iron Age bog body from Oldcroghan, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 265-277.
Plunkett, G. & Swindles, G.T 2008 Determining the Sun's influence on Late Glacial and Holocene climates: a focus on climate response to centennial-scale solar forcing at 2800 cal. BP. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 175-184.
Plunkett, G., Carroll, F., Hartwell, B., Whitehouse, N.J. & Reimer, P.J. 2008 Vegetation history at the multi-period prehistoric complex at Ballynahatty, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 181-190.
Swindles, G.T., Plunkett, G. & Roe, H. 2007 A multi-proxy climate record from a raised bog in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland: a critical examination of the link between bog surface wetness and solar variability. Journal of Quaternary Science 22, 667-679.
Swindles, G.T., Plunkett, G. & Roe, H. 2007 A delayed climatic response to solar forcing at 2800 cal. BP: multi-proxy evidence from three Irish peatlands. The Holocene 17, 177-182.
Plunkett, G. 2006 Tephra-linked peat humification records from Irish ombrotrophic bogs question nature of solar forcing at 850 cal. BC. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 9-16.
Plunkett, G. & Foley, C. 2006 Peatland archaeology in Northern Ireland: an evaluation. Journal of Wetland Archaeology 6, 83-97.
Plunkett, G.M., Pilcher, J.R., McCormac, F.G. & Hall, V.A. 2004 New dates for first millennium BC tephra isochrones in Ireland. The Holocene 14, 780-786.
Plunkett, G.M., Whitehouse, N.J., Hall, V.A., Brown, D.M. & Baillie, M.G.L. 2004 A precisely-dated lake-level rise marked by diatomite formation in northeastern Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 3-7.
Murray, E., McCormick, F. & Plunkett, G. 2004 The food economies of Atlantic island monasteries: the documentary and archaeo-environmental evidence. Environmental Archaeology 9, 179-189.
Whitehouse, N.J., Murphy, E.M. & Plunkett, G. 2004 Human exploitation and biota of islands. Environmental Archaeology 9, 113-115.
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External Grant Funding:
- Royal Irish Academy, Research Grant 2006: An assessment of the potential for palynological study at Rathgall hillfort, County Wicklow.
- Heritage Council Grant, 2006: The Millin Bay mortuary monument in its landscape context (R. Schulting, B. Hartwell & G. Plunkett).
- National Museum of Ireland, 2005: The Clonearl Bog Body, Co. Offaly: palaeo-environmental research (G. Plunkett, V. Hall & N. Whitehouse).
- British Academy, 2004: Settlement and ecodynamics in a north Irish prehistoric landscape (N. Whitehouse & G. Plunkett).
