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Dr Gill Plunkett

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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:

GAP1002 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (Module Co-Ordinator)

GAP2041 Flints, Farmers and Forts: Ireland in Prehistory

GAP4202/7202 Irish Archaeology in a Global Context (Module Co-Ordinator)
GAP4040/7040 Chronology: Methods and Applications II

Current Administrative Roles:

  • Programme Co-Ordinator BSc Archaeology-Palaeoecology
  • Level 2 Year Co-Ordinator
  • Chair of Environmental Change focus group Palaeoecology-Chronology
  • Palaeo Lab co-ordinator
  • Health & Saftey Committee
  • Green Champion

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)

Environment as Agent and Actor in Iron Age, Medieval, and Early Modern Ulster (with Dr Tina Thurston, University of Buffalo)

Research students

Carla Ferreira (primary supervisor)

Catriona Brogan (primary supervisor)

Cormac McSparron

Geoffrey Hill

David Bell

Recently completed

Lisa Coyle (primary supervisor)

Vicky Ginn (primary supervisor)

Publications:

Recent publications

Swindles, G.T., Lawson, I.T., Matthews, I.P., Blaauw, M., Daley, T.J., Charman, D.J., Roland, T.P., Plunkett, G., Schettler, G., Gearey, B.R., Turner, T.E., Rea, H.A., Roe, H.M., Amesbury, M.J., Chambers, F.M., Holmes, J., Mitchell, F.J.G., Blackford, J., Blundell, A., Branch, N., Holmes, J., Langdon, P., McCarroll, J., McDermott, F., Oksanen, P.O., Pritchard, O., Stastney, O., Stefanini, B., Young, D., Wheeler, J., Becker, K., Armit, I. in press Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene. Earth Science Reviews.

Plunkett, G., McDermott, C., Swindles, G.T. & Brown, D.M. 2013 Environmental indifference? A critique of environmentally deterministic theories of peatland archaeological site construction in Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews 61, 16-31, 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.002.

Thurston, T. & Plunkett, G. 2012 A dynamic human socioecology of prehistoric and protohistoric Ulster. In L. Giosan, D.Q. Fuller, K. Nicoll, R.K. Flad & P.D. Clift (eds), Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations, Geophysical Monograph Series 198, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., 177–191, doi:10.1029/2012GM001227.

Coulter, S.E., Pilcher, J.R., Plunkett, G., Baillie, M.G.L., Hall, V.A., Steffensen, J.P., Vinther, B.M., Clausen, H.B. & Johnsen, S.J. 2012 Holocene tephras highlight complexity of volcanic signals in Greenland ice cores. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 117, D21303, doi:10.1029/2012JD017698

Lawson, I.T., Swindles, G.T., Plunkett, G. & Greenberg, D. 2012 The spatial distribution of Holocene cryptotephras in north-west Europe since 7 ka: implications for understanding ash fall events from Icelandic eruptions. Quaternary Science Reviews 41, 57-66.

Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Baird, A.J., Blaauw, M. & Plunkett, G. 2012 Ecohydrological feedbacks confound peat-based climate reconstructions. Geophysical Research Letters 39, L11401.

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.

 

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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).