Professor Nicki Whitehouse
- Professor of Archaeological Science (Archaeology)
email:
Nicki.Whitehouse@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 312, Archaeology, School of Humanities, Molema Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Research interests
I am an archaeological scientist working within tenvironmental archaeology and palaeoecology (Quaternary entomology). I am interested in understanding the socio-ecological dynamics of past human populations from northern temperate environments to the Mediterranean.
My primary expertise lies in the analysis of Holocene cultural landscapes and ecosystems using palaeoenvironmental (especially insects, pollen data and other biological & geochemical proxies) climate, archaeological and 14C data, underpinned by sound chronological understandings. I work both at the site level, investigating the physical and environmental context of archaeological sites using a range of techniques to extract and analyse proxy data from soils and sediments, though to the landscape and regional scale, using ‘big data’ approaches to synthesize diverse lines of evidence. My research sheds light on the processes that drive landscape change, including shifts in cultural land-use through time such as the transition to early agriculture, showing how anthropogenic and other processes have shaped our historic and current environments. I have a long-standing interest in the study of wetland archaeology and environments.
My interests span from reconstructing past vegetation and climatic histories, the modelling of ecological and human processes of change, people-environment co-evolutionary dynamics, long-term trajectories of biodiversity and sustainability in prehistoric societies, the origin and transition to agriculture & complexity and how communities and societies become resilient to change over space and time. Agriculture has had an immense impact on humans and non-humans and the future of our world is linked to making agriculture sustainable by maintaining and enhancing biodiversity, understanding traditional agricultural knowledge and mitigating environmental impacts. Archaeology can play a key role in all these lines of investigation. My contention is that modern biodiversity, ecosystems and landscapes are formed as a consequence of these historical processes and understanding the environmental past is key, both in terms of understanding past human behaviours and understanding our present and future.
In recent years, I have further focused on the character of early agricultural systems, where, what and how people were growing crops and grazing animals, implications for land usage and impacts on landscapes, biological and biophysical systems. I have a particular fondness for working within the Mesolithic and Neolithic time periods, but I also work on later prehistoric and historic periods.
Key areas for my work are the North Atlantic region, in Ireland and Britain and their Atlantic fringe context, linking through to the Mediterranean. My research has been funded by NERC, AHRC, ERC, HLF, Heritage Council, British Academy, Royal Society.
Publications
2024
Hill, C., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N. J. , Jiménez-Arteaga, C., Hammer, E., Bates, J., Welton, L., Biagetti, S., Hilpert, J. and Morrison, K. D. (2024) Per capita land use through time and space: a new database for (pre)historic land-use reconstructions. Land, 13(8), 1144. (doi: 10.3390/land13081144)
2023
Whitehouse, N. J. , Jenkins, E. and Barratt, P. (2023) Rewilding, the historic environment and moving beyond ‘wilderness’. Archaeology Scotland, 47, pp. 14-17.
Engels, S. and Whitehouse, N. (2023) Insects as palaeoenvironmental and archaeological indicators. In: Pollard, A. M., Armitage, R. A. and Makarewicz, C. A. (eds.) Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, 2nd edition. Wiley, pp. 187-210. ISBN 9781119592044 (doi: 10.1002/9781119592112.ch10)
Horne, D. J. et al. (2023) A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multi-proxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK. Quaternary Research, 111, pp. 21-52. (doi: 10.1017/qua.2022.20)
2022
Brown, A. G. et al. (2022) New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe. Antiquity, 96(389), pp. 1179-1199. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2022.70)
Silva, F. et al. (2022) Developing transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability challenges: the need to model socio-environmental systems in the longue durée. Sustainability, 14(16), 10234. (doi: 10.3390/su141610234)
Johnston, P. et al. (2022) The organics revolution: new narratives and how we can achieve them. World Archaeology, 54(3), pp. 447-463. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2179537)
McClatchie, M., Schulting, R., McLaughlin, R., Colledge, S., Boggard, A., Barratt, P. and Whitehouse, N. (2022) Food production, processing and foodways in Neolithic Ireland. Environmental Archaeology, 27(1), pp. 80-92. (doi: 10.1080/14614103.2019.1615215)
Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (Eds.) (2022) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Whitehouse, N.J. (2022) Hatfield Moors. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Whitehouse, N.J. (2022) The Inclesmoor map. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Whitehouse, N.J. (2022) Thorne Moors. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Whitehouse, N.J. , Chapman, H., Barratt, P. and Gearey, B. (2022) The rivers and meres of Hatfield Chace. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
2021
Whitehouse, N.J. , Willsdon, C. and Beale, G. (2021) ‘Bright edge deep’: peatlands in history, culture and climate; an online experience. British Archaeology, 2021(Nov/De),
Brown, A.G. et al. (2021) Ancient DNA, lipid biomarkers and palaeoecological evidence reveals construction and life on early medieval lake settlements. Scientific Reports, 11, 11807. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91057-x) (PMID:34083588) (PMCID:PMC8175756)
Brown, A. G. et al. (2021) Late Quaternary evolution of a lowland anastomosing river system: geological-topographic inheritance, non-uniformity and implications for biodiversity and management. Quaternary Science Reviews, 260, 106929. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106929)
Morrison, K. D. et al. (2021) Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: a new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PLoS ONE, 16(4), e0246662. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662) (PMID:33852578) (PMCID:PMC8046197)
Whitehouse, N. , Willsdon, C. , Beale, G. , Gardner, T., Davies, A., Gearey, B. and Everett, R. (2021) Bright Edge Deep: peatlands in history, cultural heritage, and climate. [Exhibitions]
2020
Schafstall, N., Whitehouse, N. , Kuosmanen, N., Svobodová-Svitavská, H., Saulnier, M., Chiverrell, R. C., Fleischer, P., Kuneš, P. and Clear, J. L. (2020) Changes in species composition and diversity of a montane beetle community over the last millennium in the High Tatras, Slovakia: implications for forest conservation and management. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 555, 109834. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109834)
Mackay, H. et al. (2020) Characterising life in settlements and structures: incorporating faecal lipid biomarkers within a multiproxy case study of a wetland village. Journal of Archaeological Science, 121, 105202. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105202)
Harrison, S. P. et al. (2020) Development and testing scenarios for implementing land use and land cover changes during the Holocene in Earth system model experiments. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(2), pp. 805-824. (doi: 10.5194/gmd-13-805-2020)
2019
Briant, R. M. et al. (2019) Early Ipswichian (last interglacial) sea level rise in the channel region: Stone Point Site of Special Scientific Interest, Hampshire, England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 130(1), pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.03.002)
Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (Eds.) (2019) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London.
Brown, A.G. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2019) Lough Yoan – the crannogs enigma. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 184-190.
Pilcher, J., Plunkett, G. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2019) Palaeoecology of the north of Ireland – a brief over-view. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 36-47.
Roe, H. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2019) Strangford Lough. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 63-64.
Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (2019) Introduction to the late Quaternary environments and evolution of the north of Ireland. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, vii-xvi.
Whitehouse, N. J. , Watson, J. and Turney, C.S.M. (2019) The Late glacial site at Roddansport. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 65-72.
2018
Whitehouse, N. , Madella, M. and Antolín, F. (2018) European land-use at 6000 BP: from on-site data to the large-scale view. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(2), p. 90. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.2.90)
Chapman, H., Gearey, B., Bunting, J., Davies, K. and Whitehouse, N. (2018) Bogs are unique records of history – here’s why. Conversation, 4 Sep.
Gaillard, M.-J., Morrison, K.D., Madella, M. and Whitehouse, N. (2018) Past land-use and land-cover change: the challenge of quantification at the subcontinental to global scales. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(1), p. 3. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.1.3)
Jeffers, E. S. et al. (2018) Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function. Ecology Letters, 21(6), pp. 814-825. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12944)
Morrison, K. D., Hammer, E., Popova, L., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N. and Gaillard, M.-J. (2018) Global-scale comparisons of human land use: developing shared terminology for land-use practices for global change. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(1), pp. 8-9. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.1.8)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Bunting, M.J., McClatchie, M., Barratt, P., McLaughlin, R., Schulting, R. and Bogaard, A. (2018) Prehistoric land-cover and land-use history in Ireland at 6000 BP. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(1), pp. 24-25. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.1.24)
Crone, A. et al. (2018) Nasty, brutish and short?; The life cycle of an Iron Age roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 18(2), pp. 138-162. (doi: 10.1080/14732971.2019.1576413)
Davies, K. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2018) Black Loch of Myrton Structure 2: report of insect fossils. Project Report. AOC Archaeology Group, Scotland. (Unpublished)
Whitehouse, N. J. (2018) Investigations of fossil beetles remains from the Derragh Mesolithic platform, Co. Longford, Ireland. In: McGlynn, G., Stuijts, I. and Stefanini, B. (eds.) The Quaternary of the Irish Midlands. Series: IQUA Field Guide (35). Irish Quaternary Association: London, pp. 170-175. ISBN 9780947920593
2017
Schulting, R. J., Mcclatchie, M., Sheridan, A., Mclaughlin, R., Barratt, P. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2017) Radiocarbon dating of a multi-phase passage tomb on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 83, pp. 305-323. (doi: 10.1017/ppr.2017.1)
Langford, H.E., Boreham, S., Briant, R.M., Coope, G.R., Horne, D.J., Penkman, K.E.H., Schreve, D.C., Whitehouse, N.J. and Whittaker, J.E. (2017) Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(6), pp. 988-1003. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2017-001)
Wohlfarth, B., Muschitiello, F., Greenwood, S. L., Andersson, A., Kylander, M., Smittenberg, R. H., Steinthorsdottir, M., Watson, J. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2017) Hässeldala – a key site for Last Termination climate events in northern Europe. Boreas, 46(2), pp. 143-161. (doi: 10.1111/bor.12207)
2016
Lancelotti, C., Zurro, D., Whitehouse, N. J. , Kramer, K. L., Madella, M., García-Granero, J. J. and Greaves, R. D. (2016) Resilience of livelihood strategies in small-scale societies: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production. Ecology and Society, 21(4), 8. (doi: 10.5751/ES-08757-210408)
McLaughlin, T. R., Whitehouse, N. J. , Schulting, R. J., McClatchie, M., Barratt, P. and Bogaard, A. (2016) The changing face of Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland: a big data approach to the settlement and burial records. Journal of World Prehistory, 29(2), pp. 117-153. (doi: 10.1007/s10963-016-9093-0)
McClatchie, M., Bogaard, A., Colledge, S., Whitehouse, N. J. , Schulting, R. J., Barratt, P. and McLaughlin, T. R. (2016) Farming and foraging in Neolithic Ireland: an archaeobotanical perspective. Antiquity, 90(350), pp. 302-318. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2015.212)
2015
Muschitiello, F., Pausata, F. S. R., Watson, J. E., Smittenberg, R. H., Salih, A. A. M., Brooks, S. J., Whitehouse, N. J. , Karlatou-Charalampopoulou, A. and Wohlfarth, B. (2015) Fennoscandian freshwater control on Greenland hydroclimate shifts at the onset of the Younger Dryas. Nature Communications, 6, 8939. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms9939) (PMID:26573386) (PMCID:PMC4660357)
Gaillard, M.-J., Morrisson, K. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2015) Past anthropogenic land use and land cover change at the global scale for climate modeling studies: PAGES LandCover6K Working Group. Quaternary Perspectives, 22(2), pp. 25-27.
2014
McClatchie, M., Bogaard, A., Colledge, S., Whitehouse, N.J. , Schulting, R.J., Barratt, P. and McLaughlin, T.R. (2014) Neolithic farming in north-western Europe: archaeobotanical evidence from Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51, pp. 206-215. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.022)
Whitehouse, N. J. and Kirleis, W. (2014) The world reshaped: practices and impacts of early agrarian societies. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51, pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.007)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Schulting, R. J., McClatchie, M., Barratt, P., McLaughlin, T. R., Bogaard, A., Colledge, S., Marchant, R., Gaffrey, J. and Bunting, M. J. (2014) Neolithic agriculture on the European western frontier: the boom and bust of early farming in Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51, pp. 181-205. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.08.009)
Elias, S. A. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2014) G. Russell Coope: papers honouring his life and career. Quaternary International, 341, pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.056)
Langford, H.E., Boreham, S., Briant, R.M., Coope, G.R., Horne, D.J., Schreve, D.C., Whittaker, J.E. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2014) Middle to Late Pleistocene palaeoecological reconstructions and palaeotemperature estimates for cold/cool stage deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England. Quaternary International, 341, pp. 6-26. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.037)
Mansell, L. J., Whitehouse, N. J. , Gearey, B. R., Barratt, P. and Roe, H. M. (2014) Holocene floodplain palaeoecology of the Humberhead Levels; implications for regional wetland development. Quaternary International, 341, pp. 91-109. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.029)
Smith, D., Nayyar, K., Schreve, D., Thomas, R. and Whitehouse, N. (2014) Can dung beetles from the palaeoecological and archaeological record indicate herd concentration and the identity of herbivores? Quaternary International, 341, pp. 119-130. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.032)
Seddon, A. W. R. et al. (2014) Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology. Journal of Ecology, 102(1), pp. 256-267. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12195)
Grant, M. J. et al. (2014) A palaeoenvironmental context for Terminal Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic activity in the Colne Valley: offsite records contemporary with occupation at Three Ways Wharf, Uxbridge. Environmental Archaeology, 19(2), pp. 131-152. (doi: 10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000015)
Plunkett, G., Hall, V.A., Whitehouse, N. , Charman, D. and Blaaw, M. (2014) Overview and conclusion of palaeoenvironmental research. In: Kelly,, E.P. and Mulhall, I. (eds.) Bog Bodies Research Project. National Museum of Ireland: Dublin.
Whitehouse, N. (2014) Coleoptera analysis. In: Kelly,, E.P. and Mulhall, I. (eds.) Bog Bodies Research Project. National Museum of Ireland: Dublin.
2013
Chapman, H., Gearey, B., Whitehouse, N. and Marshall, P. (2013) Archaeological investigations of a late Neolithic site on Hatfield Moors. In: Chapman, H. P. and Gearey, B. R. (eds.) Modelling Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments in Wetlands: the Hidden Landscape Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, Eastern England. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 119-130. ISBN 9781782971740
Gearey, B., Chapman, H., Marshall, P. and Whitehouse, N. (2013) Modelling, dating and contexualising palaeoenvironmental records. In: Chapman, H. P. and Gearey, B. R. (eds.) Modelling Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments in Wetlands: the Hidden Landscape Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, Eastern England. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 77-98. ISBN 9781782971740
2010
Watson, J. E., Brooks, S. J., Whitehouse, N. J. , Reimer, P. J., Birks, H. J. B. and Turney, C. (2010) Chironomid-inferred late-glacial summer air temperatures from Lough Nadourcan, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25(8), pp. 1200-1210. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.1399)
Whitehouse, N. , McClatchie, M., Barratt, P., Schulting, R., McLaughlin, R. and Bogaard, A. (2010) INSTAR – cultivating societies. Archaeology Ireland, 24(2), pp. 16-19.
Smith, D., Whitehouse, N. , Bunting, M. J. and Chapman, H. (2010) Can we characterise 'openness' in the Holocene palaeoenvironmental record? Modern analogue studies of insect faunas and pollen spectra from Dunham Massey deer park and Epping Forest, England. Holocene, 20(2), pp. 215-229. (doi: 10.1177/0959683609350392)
Whitehouse, N. J. and Smith, D. (2010) How fragmented was the British Holocene wildwood? Perspectives on the "Vera" grazing debate from the fossil beetle record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(3-4), pp. 539-553. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.10.010)
Bogaard, A. and Whitehouse, N. (2010) Early agriculture in uncertain climates: themes and approaches. Environmental Archaeology, 15(2), pp. 109-112. (doi: 10.1179/146141010X12640787648423)
Kenward, H. and Whitehouse, N. (2010) Insects. In: O'Connor, T. and Sykes, N. J. (eds.) Extinctions and Invasions: a Social History of British Fauna. Windgather Press: Oxford, pp. 181-189. ISBN 9781905119318
2009
Whitehouse, N. J. (2009) Conservation lessons from the holocene record in "natural" and "cultural" landscapes. In: Hall, M. (ed.) Restoration and History: the Search for a Usable Environmental Past. Series: Routledge studies in modern history (8). Routledge: New York, pp. 87-97. ISBN 9780415871761
Plunkett, G., Whitehouse, N. J. , Hall, V. A., Charman, D. J., Blaauw, M., Kelly, E. and 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(2), pp. 265-277. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.09.014)
McClatchie, M., Whitehouse, N.J. , Schulting, R., Bogaard, A. and Barratt, P. (2009) Cultivating societies: new insights into agriculture in Neolithic Ireland. In: Stanley, M., Danaher, E. and Eogan, J. (eds.) Dining and Swelling: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2008. Series: Archaeology and the National Roads Authority monograph series (6). National Roads Authority: Dublin, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9780954595579
2008
Bunting, M. J. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2008) Adding time to the conservation toolkit: palaeoecology and long term wetland function dynamics. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17(9), 2051. (doi: 10.1007/s10531-008-9410-8)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Langdon, P. G., Bustin, R. and Galsworthy, S. (2008) Fossil insects and ecosystem dynamics in wetlands: implications for biodiversity and conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17(9), pp. 2055-2078. (doi: 10.1007/s10531-008-9411-7)
Whitehouse, N.J. , Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (Eds.) (2008) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London. ISBN 9780907780779
Pilcher, J., Plunkett, G. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2008) Palaeoecology of the North of Ireland – history and overview. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 29-40. ISBN 9780907780779
Plunkett, G., Carroll, F., Whitehouse, N.J. and Peimer, P.J. (2008) Ballynahatty bog. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 174-178. ISBN 9780907780779
Plunkett, G., Carroll, F., Hartwell, B., Whitehouse, N. J. and Reimer, P. J. (2008) Vegetation history at the multi-period prehistoric complex at Ballynahatty, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(19), pp. 181-190. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.03.006)
Whitehouse, N.J. and Rodgers, K. (2008) Greyabbey Bay, Strangford Lough: palaeoentomology. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 147-154. ISBN 9780907780779
Whitehouse, N.J. and Rodgers, K. (2008) Strangford Lough. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 137-138. ISBN 9780907780779
Whitehouse, N.J. , Watson, J. and Turney, C.S.M. (2008) Roddans Port Late glacial site. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 168-173. ISBN 9780907780779
2007
Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (Eds.) (2007) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Oxbow Books: Oxford. ISBN 9781842172742
Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2007) Introduction. In: Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (eds.) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Oxbow Books: Oxford, xi-xxii. ISBN 9781842172742
Ó Néill, J., Plunkett, G. and Whitehouse, N. (2007) Archaeological and palaeoecological investigations of a Middle Bronze Age settlement at Ballyarnet Lake, Count Derry. Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 66, pp. 39-49.
Whitehouse, N.J. , Smith, D.N. and Bunting, J.M. (2007) Beetle-vegetation relationships and Holocene landscape structure: a modern analogue approach. In: Makohonienko, M., Makowiecki, D. and Czerniawska, J. (eds.) Eurasian Perspectives on Environmental Archaeology. Series: Środowisko i Kultura (Environment and human culture) (3). Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe: Poznań, pp. 145-147. ISBN 9788360247839
Whitehouse, N. J. (2007) Fossil insect remains in environmental investigations. In: Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (eds.) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 136-163. ISBN 9781842172742
2006
Whitehouse, N. J. (2006) The Holocene British and Irish ancient forest fossil beetle fauna: implications for forest history, biodiversity and faunal colonisation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(15-16), pp. 1755-1789. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.010)
Turney, C.S.M., Van Den Burg, K., Wastegård, S., Davies, S.M., Whitehouse, N.J. , Pilcher, J.R. and Callaghan, C. (2006) North European last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT; 15-9 ka) tephrochronology: extended limits and new events. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21(4), pp. 335-345. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.990)
Palmer, C. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2006) Plant macrofossil and insect evidence from the Water Hole. In: Millet, M. (ed.) Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of a Romano-British Roadside Settlement. Series: Yorkshire archaeological report (5). Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Leeds, pp. 280-281. ISBN 9781903564653
Whitehouse, N.J. (2006) The insect fauna from the water hole. In: Millet, M. (ed.) Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of a Romano-British Roadside Settlement. Series: Yorkshire archaeological report (5). Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Leeds, pp. 287-291. ISBN 9781903564653
Whitehouse, N. J. (2006) What can forest managers learn from research on fossil insects? Linking ecological forest history, biodiversity and management. In: Grove, S. J. and Hanula, J. L. (eds.) Insect Biodiversity and Dead Wood: Proceedings of a Symposium for the 22nd International Congress of Entomology. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: Asheville, NC, pp. 30-41. (doi: 10.2737/SRS-GTR-93)
2005
Smith, D. N. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2005) Not seeing the trees for the woods: a palaeoentomological perspective on holocene woodland composition. In: Smith, D.N., Brickley, M.B. and Smith, W. (eds.) Fertile Ground: Papers in Honour of Susan Limbrey. Series: Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (22). Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 136-161. ISBN 9781842171448 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh1djmm.19)
Smith, D.N. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2005) Beetle faunas, woodland history and palaeoenvironment. Landscape Archaeology and Ecology, 5, pp. 82-85.
2004
Plunkett, G.M., Whitehouse, N.J. , Hall, V.A., Brown, D.M. and Baillie, M.G.L. (2004) A precisely-dated lake-level rise marked by diatomite formation in northeastern Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19(1), pp. 3-7. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.816)
Whitehouse, N. J. (2004) Mire ontogeny, environmental and climatic change inferred from fossil beetle successions from Hatfield Moors, eastern England. Holocene, 14(1), pp. 79-93. (doi: 10.1191/0959683604hl691rp)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Murphy, E. M. and Plunkett, G. (2004) Human exploitation and biota of Islands. Environmental Archaeology, 9(2), pp. 113-115. (doi: 10.1179/env.2004.9.2.113)
Whitehouse, N. J. and Smith, D. N. (2004) 'Islands' in Holocene forests: implications for forest openness, landscape clearance and 'culture-steppe' species. Environmental Archaeology, 9(2), pp. 199-208. (doi: 10.1179/env.2004.9.2.199)
2003
Whitehouse, N.J. (2003) Peatland archaeology and palaeoecology: an archive worth rescuing? Thorne and Hatfield Moors Papers, 6, pp. 66-72.
2002
Whitehouse, N. J. and Eversham, B. C. (2002) A fossil specimen of Pterostichus angustatus (Duftschmid) (Carabidae): implications for the importance of pine and fire habitats. Coleopterist, 11(3), pp. 107-114.
Boswijk, G. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2002) Pinus and Prostomis: a dendrochronological and palaeoentomological study of a mid-Holocene woodland in eastern England. Holocene, 12(5), pp. 585-596. (doi: 10.1191/0959683602hl569rp)
2001
Bateman, M.D., Buckland, P.C., Frederick, C.D. and Whitehouse, N.J. (Eds.) (2001) The quaternary of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire : field guide. Series: Field guide (Quaternary Research Association). Quaternary Research Association: London. ISBN 9780907780540
Whitehouse, N. , Buckland, P., Boswijk, G. and Smith, B. M. (2001) The ontogeny of Thorne and Hatfield Moors. In: Bateman, M.D., Buckland, P.C., Frederick, C.D. and Whitehouse, N.J. (eds.) The Quaternary of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire: Field Guide. Series: Field guide (Quaternary Research Association). Quaternary Research Association, pp. 197-201.
2000
Whitehouse, N.J. (2000) Forest fires and insects: Palaeoentomological research from a subfossil burnt forest. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 164(1-4), pp. 231-246. (doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00188-7)
1998
Whitehouse, N. (1998) Conflicts between palaeoecology, archaeology and nature conservation: the Humberhead Peatlands SSSI. In: Jones, M. and Rotherham, I. D. (eds.) Landscape, Perception, Recognition and Management: Reconciling the Impossible? Series: Landscape archaeology and ecology, 3. Wildtrack Publishing.
1997
Mark, D., Whitehouse, N. and Lindsay, R. (1997) A wetland battleground: palaeoecology, archaeology and nature conservation in the Humberhead SSSI Peatlands. Assemblage Internet Journal(3), pp. 88-109.
Parker Pearson, M. et al. (1997) Iron Age enclosures and prehistoric landscape of Sutton Common, south Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 63, pp. 221-259. (doi: 10.1017/S0079497X00002449)
Whitehouse, N. (1997) Insect faunas associated with Pinus sylvestris L. from the mid-Holocene of the Humberhead Levels, Yorkshire, U.K. Quaternary Proceedings, 5, pp. 293-303.
Whitehouse, N. (1997) Silent witnesses: an "Urwald" fossil insect assemblage from Thorne Moors. Thorne and Hatfield Moors Papers, 4, pp. 19-54.
Whitehouse, N. , Boswijk, G. and Buckland, P.C. (1997) Peatlands, past, present and future; some comments from the fossil record. In: Parkyn, L., Stoneman, R. E. and Ingram, H.A.P. (eds.) Conserving Peatlands. CAB International, pp. 54-64. ISBN 0851989985
Articles
Hill, C., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N. J. , Jiménez-Arteaga, C., Hammer, E., Bates, J., Welton, L., Biagetti, S., Hilpert, J. and Morrison, K. D. (2024) Per capita land use through time and space: a new database for (pre)historic land-use reconstructions. Land, 13(8), 1144. (doi: 10.3390/land13081144)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Jenkins, E. and Barratt, P. (2023) Rewilding, the historic environment and moving beyond ‘wilderness’. Archaeology Scotland, 47, pp. 14-17.
Horne, D. J. et al. (2023) A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multi-proxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK. Quaternary Research, 111, pp. 21-52. (doi: 10.1017/qua.2022.20)
Brown, A. G. et al. (2022) New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe. Antiquity, 96(389), pp. 1179-1199. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2022.70)
Silva, F. et al. (2022) Developing transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability challenges: the need to model socio-environmental systems in the longue durée. Sustainability, 14(16), 10234. (doi: 10.3390/su141610234)
Johnston, P. et al. (2022) The organics revolution: new narratives and how we can achieve them. World Archaeology, 54(3), pp. 447-463. (doi: 10.1080/00438243.2023.2179537)
McClatchie, M., Schulting, R., McLaughlin, R., Colledge, S., Boggard, A., Barratt, P. and Whitehouse, N. (2022) Food production, processing and foodways in Neolithic Ireland. Environmental Archaeology, 27(1), pp. 80-92. (doi: 10.1080/14614103.2019.1615215)
Whitehouse, N.J. , Willsdon, C. and Beale, G. (2021) ‘Bright edge deep’: peatlands in history, culture and climate; an online experience. British Archaeology, 2021(Nov/De),
Brown, A.G. et al. (2021) Ancient DNA, lipid biomarkers and palaeoecological evidence reveals construction and life on early medieval lake settlements. Scientific Reports, 11, 11807. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91057-x) (PMID:34083588) (PMCID:PMC8175756)
Brown, A. G. et al. (2021) Late Quaternary evolution of a lowland anastomosing river system: geological-topographic inheritance, non-uniformity and implications for biodiversity and management. Quaternary Science Reviews, 260, 106929. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106929)
Morrison, K. D. et al. (2021) Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: a new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PLoS ONE, 16(4), e0246662. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246662) (PMID:33852578) (PMCID:PMC8046197)
Schafstall, N., Whitehouse, N. , Kuosmanen, N., Svobodová-Svitavská, H., Saulnier, M., Chiverrell, R. C., Fleischer, P., Kuneš, P. and Clear, J. L. (2020) Changes in species composition and diversity of a montane beetle community over the last millennium in the High Tatras, Slovakia: implications for forest conservation and management. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 555, 109834. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109834)
Mackay, H. et al. (2020) Characterising life in settlements and structures: incorporating faecal lipid biomarkers within a multiproxy case study of a wetland village. Journal of Archaeological Science, 121, 105202. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105202)
Harrison, S. P. et al. (2020) Development and testing scenarios for implementing land use and land cover changes during the Holocene in Earth system model experiments. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(2), pp. 805-824. (doi: 10.5194/gmd-13-805-2020)
Briant, R. M. et al. (2019) Early Ipswichian (last interglacial) sea level rise in the channel region: Stone Point Site of Special Scientific Interest, Hampshire, England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 130(1), pp. 1-26. (doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.03.002)
Whitehouse, N. , Madella, M. and Antolín, F. (2018) European land-use at 6000 BP: from on-site data to the large-scale view. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(2), p. 90. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.2.90)
Chapman, H., Gearey, B., Bunting, J., Davies, K. and Whitehouse, N. (2018) Bogs are unique records of history – here’s why. Conversation, 4 Sep.
Gaillard, M.-J., Morrison, K.D., Madella, M. and Whitehouse, N. (2018) Past land-use and land-cover change: the challenge of quantification at the subcontinental to global scales. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(1), p. 3. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.1.3)
Jeffers, E. S. et al. (2018) Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function. Ecology Letters, 21(6), pp. 814-825. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12944)
Morrison, K. D., Hammer, E., Popova, L., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N. and Gaillard, M.-J. (2018) Global-scale comparisons of human land use: developing shared terminology for land-use practices for global change. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(1), pp. 8-9. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.1.8)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Bunting, M.J., McClatchie, M., Barratt, P., McLaughlin, R., Schulting, R. and Bogaard, A. (2018) Prehistoric land-cover and land-use history in Ireland at 6000 BP. Past Global Changes Magazine, 26(1), pp. 24-25. (doi: 10.22498/pages.26.1.24)
Crone, A. et al. (2018) Nasty, brutish and short?; The life cycle of an Iron Age roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 18(2), pp. 138-162. (doi: 10.1080/14732971.2019.1576413)
Schulting, R. J., Mcclatchie, M., Sheridan, A., Mclaughlin, R., Barratt, P. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2017) Radiocarbon dating of a multi-phase passage tomb on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 83, pp. 305-323. (doi: 10.1017/ppr.2017.1)
Langford, H.E., Boreham, S., Briant, R.M., Coope, G.R., Horne, D.J., Penkman, K.E.H., Schreve, D.C., Whitehouse, N.J. and Whittaker, J.E. (2017) Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(6), pp. 988-1003. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2017-001)
Wohlfarth, B., Muschitiello, F., Greenwood, S. L., Andersson, A., Kylander, M., Smittenberg, R. H., Steinthorsdottir, M., Watson, J. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2017) Hässeldala – a key site for Last Termination climate events in northern Europe. Boreas, 46(2), pp. 143-161. (doi: 10.1111/bor.12207)
Lancelotti, C., Zurro, D., Whitehouse, N. J. , Kramer, K. L., Madella, M., García-Granero, J. J. and Greaves, R. D. (2016) Resilience of livelihood strategies in small-scale societies: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production. Ecology and Society, 21(4), 8. (doi: 10.5751/ES-08757-210408)
McLaughlin, T. R., Whitehouse, N. J. , Schulting, R. J., McClatchie, M., Barratt, P. and Bogaard, A. (2016) The changing face of Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland: a big data approach to the settlement and burial records. Journal of World Prehistory, 29(2), pp. 117-153. (doi: 10.1007/s10963-016-9093-0)
McClatchie, M., Bogaard, A., Colledge, S., Whitehouse, N. J. , Schulting, R. J., Barratt, P. and McLaughlin, T. R. (2016) Farming and foraging in Neolithic Ireland: an archaeobotanical perspective. Antiquity, 90(350), pp. 302-318. (doi: 10.15184/aqy.2015.212)
Muschitiello, F., Pausata, F. S. R., Watson, J. E., Smittenberg, R. H., Salih, A. A. M., Brooks, S. J., Whitehouse, N. J. , Karlatou-Charalampopoulou, A. and Wohlfarth, B. (2015) Fennoscandian freshwater control on Greenland hydroclimate shifts at the onset of the Younger Dryas. Nature Communications, 6, 8939. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms9939) (PMID:26573386) (PMCID:PMC4660357)
Gaillard, M.-J., Morrisson, K. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2015) Past anthropogenic land use and land cover change at the global scale for climate modeling studies: PAGES LandCover6K Working Group. Quaternary Perspectives, 22(2), pp. 25-27.
McClatchie, M., Bogaard, A., Colledge, S., Whitehouse, N.J. , Schulting, R.J., Barratt, P. and McLaughlin, T.R. (2014) Neolithic farming in north-western Europe: archaeobotanical evidence from Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51, pp. 206-215. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.022)
Whitehouse, N. J. and Kirleis, W. (2014) The world reshaped: practices and impacts of early agrarian societies. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51, pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.007)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Schulting, R. J., McClatchie, M., Barratt, P., McLaughlin, T. R., Bogaard, A., Colledge, S., Marchant, R., Gaffrey, J. and Bunting, M. J. (2014) Neolithic agriculture on the European western frontier: the boom and bust of early farming in Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51, pp. 181-205. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.08.009)
Elias, S. A. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2014) G. Russell Coope: papers honouring his life and career. Quaternary International, 341, pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.056)
Langford, H.E., Boreham, S., Briant, R.M., Coope, G.R., Horne, D.J., Schreve, D.C., Whittaker, J.E. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2014) Middle to Late Pleistocene palaeoecological reconstructions and palaeotemperature estimates for cold/cool stage deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England. Quaternary International, 341, pp. 6-26. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.037)
Mansell, L. J., Whitehouse, N. J. , Gearey, B. R., Barratt, P. and Roe, H. M. (2014) Holocene floodplain palaeoecology of the Humberhead Levels; implications for regional wetland development. Quaternary International, 341, pp. 91-109. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.029)
Smith, D., Nayyar, K., Schreve, D., Thomas, R. and Whitehouse, N. (2014) Can dung beetles from the palaeoecological and archaeological record indicate herd concentration and the identity of herbivores? Quaternary International, 341, pp. 119-130. (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.032)
Seddon, A. W. R. et al. (2014) Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology. Journal of Ecology, 102(1), pp. 256-267. (doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12195)
Grant, M. J. et al. (2014) A palaeoenvironmental context for Terminal Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic activity in the Colne Valley: offsite records contemporary with occupation at Three Ways Wharf, Uxbridge. Environmental Archaeology, 19(2), pp. 131-152. (doi: 10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000015)
Watson, J. E., Brooks, S. J., Whitehouse, N. J. , Reimer, P. J., Birks, H. J. B. and Turney, C. (2010) Chironomid-inferred late-glacial summer air temperatures from Lough Nadourcan, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25(8), pp. 1200-1210. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.1399)
Whitehouse, N. , McClatchie, M., Barratt, P., Schulting, R., McLaughlin, R. and Bogaard, A. (2010) INSTAR – cultivating societies. Archaeology Ireland, 24(2), pp. 16-19.
Smith, D., Whitehouse, N. , Bunting, M. J. and Chapman, H. (2010) Can we characterise 'openness' in the Holocene palaeoenvironmental record? Modern analogue studies of insect faunas and pollen spectra from Dunham Massey deer park and Epping Forest, England. Holocene, 20(2), pp. 215-229. (doi: 10.1177/0959683609350392)
Whitehouse, N. J. and Smith, D. (2010) How fragmented was the British Holocene wildwood? Perspectives on the "Vera" grazing debate from the fossil beetle record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(3-4), pp. 539-553. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.10.010)
Bogaard, A. and Whitehouse, N. (2010) Early agriculture in uncertain climates: themes and approaches. Environmental Archaeology, 15(2), pp. 109-112. (doi: 10.1179/146141010X12640787648423)
Plunkett, G., Whitehouse, N. J. , Hall, V. A., Charman, D. J., Blaauw, M., Kelly, E. and 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(2), pp. 265-277. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.09.014)
Bunting, M. J. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2008) Adding time to the conservation toolkit: palaeoecology and long term wetland function dynamics. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17(9), 2051. (doi: 10.1007/s10531-008-9410-8)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Langdon, P. G., Bustin, R. and Galsworthy, S. (2008) Fossil insects and ecosystem dynamics in wetlands: implications for biodiversity and conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17(9), pp. 2055-2078. (doi: 10.1007/s10531-008-9411-7)
Plunkett, G., Carroll, F., Hartwell, B., Whitehouse, N. J. and Reimer, P. J. (2008) Vegetation history at the multi-period prehistoric complex at Ballynahatty, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(19), pp. 181-190. (doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.03.006)
Ó Néill, J., Plunkett, G. and Whitehouse, N. (2007) Archaeological and palaeoecological investigations of a Middle Bronze Age settlement at Ballyarnet Lake, Count Derry. Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 66, pp. 39-49.
Whitehouse, N. J. (2006) The Holocene British and Irish ancient forest fossil beetle fauna: implications for forest history, biodiversity and faunal colonisation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(15-16), pp. 1755-1789. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.010)
Turney, C.S.M., Van Den Burg, K., Wastegård, S., Davies, S.M., Whitehouse, N.J. , Pilcher, J.R. and Callaghan, C. (2006) North European last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT; 15-9 ka) tephrochronology: extended limits and new events. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21(4), pp. 335-345. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.990)
Smith, D.N. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2005) Beetle faunas, woodland history and palaeoenvironment. Landscape Archaeology and Ecology, 5, pp. 82-85.
Plunkett, G.M., Whitehouse, N.J. , Hall, V.A., Brown, D.M. and Baillie, M.G.L. (2004) A precisely-dated lake-level rise marked by diatomite formation in northeastern Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19(1), pp. 3-7. (doi: 10.1002/jqs.816)
Whitehouse, N. J. (2004) Mire ontogeny, environmental and climatic change inferred from fossil beetle successions from Hatfield Moors, eastern England. Holocene, 14(1), pp. 79-93. (doi: 10.1191/0959683604hl691rp)
Whitehouse, N. J. , Murphy, E. M. and Plunkett, G. (2004) Human exploitation and biota of Islands. Environmental Archaeology, 9(2), pp. 113-115. (doi: 10.1179/env.2004.9.2.113)
Whitehouse, N. J. and Smith, D. N. (2004) 'Islands' in Holocene forests: implications for forest openness, landscape clearance and 'culture-steppe' species. Environmental Archaeology, 9(2), pp. 199-208. (doi: 10.1179/env.2004.9.2.199)
Whitehouse, N.J. (2003) Peatland archaeology and palaeoecology: an archive worth rescuing? Thorne and Hatfield Moors Papers, 6, pp. 66-72.
Whitehouse, N. J. and Eversham, B. C. (2002) A fossil specimen of Pterostichus angustatus (Duftschmid) (Carabidae): implications for the importance of pine and fire habitats. Coleopterist, 11(3), pp. 107-114.
Boswijk, G. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2002) Pinus and Prostomis: a dendrochronological and palaeoentomological study of a mid-Holocene woodland in eastern England. Holocene, 12(5), pp. 585-596. (doi: 10.1191/0959683602hl569rp)
Whitehouse, N.J. (2000) Forest fires and insects: Palaeoentomological research from a subfossil burnt forest. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 164(1-4), pp. 231-246. (doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00188-7)
Mark, D., Whitehouse, N. and Lindsay, R. (1997) A wetland battleground: palaeoecology, archaeology and nature conservation in the Humberhead SSSI Peatlands. Assemblage Internet Journal(3), pp. 88-109.
Parker Pearson, M. et al. (1997) Iron Age enclosures and prehistoric landscape of Sutton Common, south Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 63, pp. 221-259. (doi: 10.1017/S0079497X00002449)
Whitehouse, N. (1997) Insect faunas associated with Pinus sylvestris L. from the mid-Holocene of the Humberhead Levels, Yorkshire, U.K. Quaternary Proceedings, 5, pp. 293-303.
Whitehouse, N. (1997) Silent witnesses: an "Urwald" fossil insect assemblage from Thorne Moors. Thorne and Hatfield Moors Papers, 4, pp. 19-54.
Book Sections
Engels, S. and Whitehouse, N. (2023) Insects as palaeoenvironmental and archaeological indicators. In: Pollard, A. M., Armitage, R. A. and Makarewicz, C. A. (eds.) Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, 2nd edition. Wiley, pp. 187-210. ISBN 9781119592044 (doi: 10.1002/9781119592112.ch10)
Whitehouse, N.J. (2022) Hatfield Moors. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Whitehouse, N.J. (2022) The Inclesmoor map. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Whitehouse, N.J. (2022) Thorne Moors. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Whitehouse, N.J. , Chapman, H., Barratt, P. and Gearey, B. (2022) The rivers and meres of Hatfield Chace. In: Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (eds.) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Brown, A.G. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2019) Lough Yoan – the crannogs enigma. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 184-190.
Pilcher, J., Plunkett, G. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2019) Palaeoecology of the north of Ireland – a brief over-view. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 36-47.
Roe, H. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2019) Strangford Lough. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 63-64.
Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (2019) Introduction to the late Quaternary environments and evolution of the north of Ireland. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, vii-xvi.
Whitehouse, N. J. , Watson, J. and Turney, C.S.M. (2019) The Late glacial site at Roddansport. In: Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (eds.) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 65-72.
Whitehouse, N. J. (2018) Investigations of fossil beetles remains from the Derragh Mesolithic platform, Co. Longford, Ireland. In: McGlynn, G., Stuijts, I. and Stefanini, B. (eds.) The Quaternary of the Irish Midlands. Series: IQUA Field Guide (35). Irish Quaternary Association: London, pp. 170-175. ISBN 9780947920593
Plunkett, G., Hall, V.A., Whitehouse, N. , Charman, D. and Blaaw, M. (2014) Overview and conclusion of palaeoenvironmental research. In: Kelly,, E.P. and Mulhall, I. (eds.) Bog Bodies Research Project. National Museum of Ireland: Dublin.
Whitehouse, N. (2014) Coleoptera analysis. In: Kelly,, E.P. and Mulhall, I. (eds.) Bog Bodies Research Project. National Museum of Ireland: Dublin.
Chapman, H., Gearey, B., Whitehouse, N. and Marshall, P. (2013) Archaeological investigations of a late Neolithic site on Hatfield Moors. In: Chapman, H. P. and Gearey, B. R. (eds.) Modelling Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments in Wetlands: the Hidden Landscape Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, Eastern England. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 119-130. ISBN 9781782971740
Gearey, B., Chapman, H., Marshall, P. and Whitehouse, N. (2013) Modelling, dating and contexualising palaeoenvironmental records. In: Chapman, H. P. and Gearey, B. R. (eds.) Modelling Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments in Wetlands: the Hidden Landscape Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne Moors, Eastern England. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 77-98. ISBN 9781782971740
Kenward, H. and Whitehouse, N. (2010) Insects. In: O'Connor, T. and Sykes, N. J. (eds.) Extinctions and Invasions: a Social History of British Fauna. Windgather Press: Oxford, pp. 181-189. ISBN 9781905119318
Whitehouse, N. J. (2009) Conservation lessons from the holocene record in "natural" and "cultural" landscapes. In: Hall, M. (ed.) Restoration and History: the Search for a Usable Environmental Past. Series: Routledge studies in modern history (8). Routledge: New York, pp. 87-97. ISBN 9780415871761
McClatchie, M., Whitehouse, N.J. , Schulting, R., Bogaard, A. and Barratt, P. (2009) Cultivating societies: new insights into agriculture in Neolithic Ireland. In: Stanley, M., Danaher, E. and Eogan, J. (eds.) Dining and Swelling: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2008. Series: Archaeology and the National Roads Authority monograph series (6). National Roads Authority: Dublin, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9780954595579
Pilcher, J., Plunkett, G. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2008) Palaeoecology of the North of Ireland – history and overview. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 29-40. ISBN 9780907780779
Plunkett, G., Carroll, F., Whitehouse, N.J. and Peimer, P.J. (2008) Ballynahatty bog. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 174-178. ISBN 9780907780779
Whitehouse, N.J. and Rodgers, K. (2008) Greyabbey Bay, Strangford Lough: palaeoentomology. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 147-154. ISBN 9780907780779
Whitehouse, N.J. and Rodgers, K. (2008) Strangford Lough. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 137-138. ISBN 9780907780779
Whitehouse, N.J. , Watson, J. and Turney, C.S.M. (2008) Roddans Port Late glacial site. In: Whitehouse, N.J., Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (eds.) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London, pp. 168-173. ISBN 9780907780779
Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2007) Introduction. In: Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (eds.) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Oxbow Books: Oxford, xi-xxii. ISBN 9781842172742
Whitehouse, N.J. , Smith, D.N. and Bunting, J.M. (2007) Beetle-vegetation relationships and Holocene landscape structure: a modern analogue approach. In: Makohonienko, M., Makowiecki, D. and Czerniawska, J. (eds.) Eurasian Perspectives on Environmental Archaeology. Series: Środowisko i Kultura (Environment and human culture) (3). Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe: Poznań, pp. 145-147. ISBN 9788360247839
Whitehouse, N. J. (2007) Fossil insect remains in environmental investigations. In: Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (eds.) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 136-163. ISBN 9781842172742
Palmer, C. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2006) Plant macrofossil and insect evidence from the Water Hole. In: Millet, M. (ed.) Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of a Romano-British Roadside Settlement. Series: Yorkshire archaeological report (5). Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Leeds, pp. 280-281. ISBN 9781903564653
Whitehouse, N.J. (2006) The insect fauna from the water hole. In: Millet, M. (ed.) Shiptonthorpe, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of a Romano-British Roadside Settlement. Series: Yorkshire archaeological report (5). Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Leeds, pp. 287-291. ISBN 9781903564653
Whitehouse, N. J. (2006) What can forest managers learn from research on fossil insects? Linking ecological forest history, biodiversity and management. In: Grove, S. J. and Hanula, J. L. (eds.) Insect Biodiversity and Dead Wood: Proceedings of a Symposium for the 22nd International Congress of Entomology. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: Asheville, NC, pp. 30-41. (doi: 10.2737/SRS-GTR-93)
Smith, D. N. and Whitehouse, N. J. (2005) Not seeing the trees for the woods: a palaeoentomological perspective on holocene woodland composition. In: Smith, D.N., Brickley, M.B. and Smith, W. (eds.) Fertile Ground: Papers in Honour of Susan Limbrey. Series: Symposia of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (22). Oxbow: Oxford, pp. 136-161. ISBN 9781842171448 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh1djmm.19)
Whitehouse, N. , Buckland, P., Boswijk, G. and Smith, B. M. (2001) The ontogeny of Thorne and Hatfield Moors. In: Bateman, M.D., Buckland, P.C., Frederick, C.D. and Whitehouse, N.J. (eds.) The Quaternary of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire: Field Guide. Series: Field guide (Quaternary Research Association). Quaternary Research Association, pp. 197-201.
Whitehouse, N. (1998) Conflicts between palaeoecology, archaeology and nature conservation: the Humberhead Peatlands SSSI. In: Jones, M. and Rotherham, I. D. (eds.) Landscape, Perception, Recognition and Management: Reconciling the Impossible? Series: Landscape archaeology and ecology, 3. Wildtrack Publishing.
Whitehouse, N. , Boswijk, G. and Buckland, P.C. (1997) Peatlands, past, present and future; some comments from the fossil record. In: Parkyn, L., Stoneman, R. E. and Ingram, H.A.P. (eds.) Conserving Peatlands. CAB International, pp. 54-64. ISBN 0851989985
Edited Books
Whitehouse, N.J. and Karhapää, J. (Eds.) (2022) Discovering Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. North Lincolnshire Council: Scunthorpe.
Roe, H., Whitehouse, N. J. and Knight, J. (Eds.) (2019) Late Quaternary Landscape Evolution, Palaeoenvironments and Human Occupation in the North of Ireland. Series: QRA Field Guides. Quaternary Research Association: London.
Whitehouse, N.J. , Roe, H.M., McCarron, S. and Knight, J. (Eds.) (2008) North of Ireland: Field Guide 2008. Quaternary Research Association: London. ISBN 9780907780779
Murphy, E. M. and Whitehouse, N. J. (Eds.) (2007) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland. Oxbow Books: Oxford. ISBN 9781842172742
Bateman, M.D., Buckland, P.C., Frederick, C.D. and Whitehouse, N.J. (Eds.) (2001) The quaternary of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire : field guide. Series: Field guide (Quaternary Research Association). Quaternary Research Association: London. ISBN 9780907780540
Research Reports or Papers
Davies, K. and Whitehouse, N.J. (2018) Black Loch of Myrton Structure 2: report of insect fossils. Project Report. AOC Archaeology Group, Scotland. (Unpublished)
Exhibitions
Whitehouse, N. , Willsdon, C. , Beale, G. , Gardner, T., Davies, A., Gearey, B. and Everett, R. (2021) Bright Edge Deep: peatlands in history, cultural heritage, and climate. [Exhibitions]
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from PhD students interested in working the above topics, periods and areas.
- Jo Jackson (MPhil)
- Phil Gould (MRes)
- Antler Finkelstein, Chen
Meaningful Places: Intertwined Identity and Environment in Archaic Rome - Gould, Philip
A Palaeoenvironmental investigation of the southern Scottish Highlands to understand past landscapes and future management programmes. - Harvey, Isobel
A Cultural and Natural History of Scotland's Peatlands - Jackson, Elizabeth Joanna
A footprint of flowers and fungi– A pollen, Testate amoeba and NPP study covering the Mesolithic era in Earlston -Scottish Borders – Is it possible to detect if changes to hunter gatherer behaviour in the landscape were affected by past climatic chan - Loudon, Nysa Noelle
The Ecology, Materials, and Aesthetics of Unusual Fibres
Research datasets
2020
Lewin, S. and Whitehouse, N. (2020) Regional Land Use mapping code and dataset for Early and Middle Neolithic Ireland (3750-3600 cal BC and 3600-3400 cal BC, respectively). [Data Collection]
Additional information
Research Projects
- Rapid Engagement with Stressed Peatland Environments and Communities in Transformation (RESPECT)
- Peatlands, Wetlands and the Historic environment
- Agri-Dry: Dryland Agriculture and Land Use Past, Present and Future Resilience
- Reconstructing the ‘Wildscape’; Thorne and Hatfield Moors Hidden Landscapes
- PAGES Land6K
- Cultivating Societies
- Celtic Connections and Crannogs
- Into the Wild: rewilding and the Historic Environment