Outputs
Featured Publications
Richer, S, (2021) Sea Where there Once was Land: Redcar, England, Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, (Spring 2021) 18. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi:10.5282/rcc/9303.
Richer, S, (2020) Environmental Archaeology - connection and communication, Internet Archaeology 53. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.53.11
Richer, S, Stump, D and Marchant, R (2019) Archaeology has no relevance, Internet Archaeology 53. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.53.2.
Richer, S, (2018) ‘Peat Deposits’. In S López Varela (ed) The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences.
Richer, S and Gearey, B, (2017) The Medicine Tree: Unsettling Palaeoecological Perceptions of Past Environments and Human Activity, Journal of Social Archaeology, 17(3): 239–262.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1469605317731013 or the accepted manuscript can be freely downloaded from here.
Richer, S, and Gearey, B, (2018) From Rackham to REVEALS: Reflections on Palaeoecological Approaches to Woodland and Trees, Environmental Archaeology.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2017.1283765 this article is fully open access.
Reports
2020
Richer, S (2020) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Ebbsfleet, Kent. Unpublished report 20/07.
Richer, S (2020) Analysis of pollen from Land at the former Transport Research Laboratory, Crowthorne, Berkshire. Unpublished report 20/06.
Richer, S (2020) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Saffron Walden, Essex. Unpublished report 20/05.
Richer, S (2020) Analysis of pollen from Meriden Quarry, Solihull, West Midlands. Unpublished report 20/04.
Richer, S (2020) Assessment of pollen from Llansdwell, Powys. Unpublished report 20/03.
Richer, S (2020) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Whitechapel, London.
Unpublished report 20/02.
Richer, S (2020) Radiocarbon dating report for Meriden Quarry, Solihull, West Midlands.
Unpublished report 20/01.
2019
Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Sherwood Lodge, Bolsover, Derbyshire. Unpublished report 19/17.
Richer, S (2019) Radiocarbon dating report for Lighthorne Heath, Warwickshire. Unpublished interim report 19/18.
Richer, S (2019) Radiocarbon dating report for Barford, Warwickshire. Unpublished report 19/17.
Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from Adur Tidal Walls, Shoreham-by-Sea. Unpublished report 19/16.
Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Cromwell Quarry, Nottinghamshire. Unpublished report 19/15.
Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from Land to the South of Bexhill Road, Bulverhythe, East Sussex. Unpublished report 19/14.
Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Keadby Power Station, North Lincolnshire. Unpublished report 19/13.
Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from Llyn Mawr, The National Botanic Gardens Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Unpublished report 19/12.
Richer, S (2019) Survey at Bracken Hills Farm, East Lound, Haxey, North LincolnshireUnpublished report 19/11.
Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Charter House, Coventry. Unpublished report 19/10
Richer, S (2019) Full analysis of pollen from The Old Fire Station, Merstow Green, Evesham, Worcestershire. Unpublished report 19/08.
Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Bevere Weir, Worcester, Worcestershire. Unpublished report 19/07.
Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Linthaugh, Milfield Basin, Northumberland. Unpublished report 19/06.
Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Salt Lane, Coventry. Unpublished report 19/05.
Richer, S (2019) Radiocarbon dating report for Skeffling, East Riding of Yorkshire. Unpublished report 19/04.
Richer, S (2019) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Limebrook Park East, Maldon, Essex. Unpublished report 19/03.
Richer, S (2019) Pollen assessment from Skeffling, East Yorkshire. Unpublished report 19/02.
2018
Richer, S (2020) Full analysis of pollen from Offenham Biomass, Worcestershire. Unpublished report 20/18,
Richer, S (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Long Hanborough, Oxon. Unpublished report 18/18.
Richer, S (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Jervaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire. Unpublished report 18/17.
Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Llyn Mawr, The National Botanic Gardens Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales. Unpublished report 18/16.
Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment of pollen from Dowth, County Meath, Ireland. Unpublished report 18/15.
Richer, S (2018) Palaeoenvironmental assessment for Satterthwaite Bloomery, Cumbria. Unpublished report 18/14.
Richer, S (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Land at Scorer’s Lane, Great Lumley, County Durham. Unpublished report 18/13.
Richer, S (2018) Pollen assessment from Keadby Power Station, North Lincolnshire. Unpublished report 18/12.
Bradley, R, Evans, C J, Pearson, E, Richer, S, and Sworn, S, (2018) Excavation at The Hive, The Butts, Worcester, Worcestershire Archaeology Research Report 10. (Contributions: pollen analysis and landscape development).
Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Stibbe, Leicester. Unpublished report 18/11.
Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Breadsall Hilltop, Derbyshire.
Unpublished report 18/10.
Richer, S (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Glenfield Park, Leicester. Unpublished report 18/09.
Richer, S (2018) Peugeot Garage Cantabury, Pollen Analysis Report. Unpublished report, 18/08.
Richer, S, (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire. Unpublished report, 18/07.
Richer, S, (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Chestnut Park, Kingswood, Gloucestershire. Unpublished report, 18/06.
Richer, S, (2018) Chronological modelling report for Drumgold, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Unpublished report, 18/04.
Richer, S, (2018) Full analysis of pollen from Pineham, Northamptonshire. Unpublished report, 18/03.
Richer, S, (2018) Presence/absence assessment for pollen from Brooksby, Leicestershire. Unpublished report, 18/02.
Richer, S, (2018) Radiocarbon dating report for Felton, Northumberland. For AD Archaeology. Unpublished report, 18/01.
2017
Becker, K, Gearey, B, Richer, S, Hamilton, D, Chapman, H, Hegarty, M, Eogan, J, Armit, I, Dillon, M, Fioccoprile, E, McClatchie, M, O’Carroll, E, Taylor, K, Hull, G, and Duffy, S, (2017) “Seeing beyond the site” settlement and landscapes in Later Prehistoric Ireland, INSTAR-funded project AR04557, Final report, University College Cork. (Palaeoenvironmental radiocarbon dating).
Savine, B, Richer, S, Boast, E and Loffman, G, (2017) Geoarchaeological investigations at Yorkshire Energy Park, Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire, York Archaeological Trust, report 2017/93.
Mann, A, Griffin, L, Leary, R, McKinley, J I, Pearson, E, and Richer, S, (2017) Archaeological investigations at Whitemoor Haye Quarry, Staffordshire 2005 – 2012. A prehistoric and Roman landscape in the Tame Valley, Worcestershire Archaeology report, 2470. (Sections: ‘Pollen’ and ‘Radiocarbon dating of peat deposits’).
Becker, K, Gearey, B, Armit, I, Dillon, M, Eogan, J, Hegarty, S, McClatchie, M, O’Carroll, E, Richer, S, Taylor, K ansd Hull, G (2017) “Seeing beyond the site” settlement and landscapes in Later Prehistoric Ireland, INSTAR-funded project AR04557, Phase 2 report, University College Cork. (Palaeoenvironmental radiocarbon dating).
2016
Becker, K, Gearey, B, McClatchie, M, Eogan, J, Armit, I, Nagle, C and Richer, S, (2016) “Seeing beyond the site” settlement and landscapes in Later Prehistoric Ireland, INSTAR-funded project AR04557, Phase 1 report., University College Cork. (Palaeoenvironmental radiocarbon dating).
Richer, S, (2016) Full analysis of pollen from Willington Quarry, Derbyshire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2305.
Richer, S, (2016) Pollen presence/absence assessment from Trent Farm Quarry, Derbyshire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2295.
Richer, S, (2016) Pollen presence/absence assessment from Lockington, Leicestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report.
Richer, S, (2015) Archaeological watching brief at Powick Bridge, Powick, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2254.
2015
Richer, S, (2015) Geoarchaeological borehole survey at Hoobrook Link Road Bridge, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2245.
Richer, S, and Daffern, N, (2015) Pollen analysis. In A Mann et al. Excavations at Town Mill, Hanbury Road, Droitwich, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2205.
Richer, S, and Mann, A, (2015) Environmental analysis. In G Arnold and M Nicholson Archaeological investigations at Vineyards Weir, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2183. (‘Pollen’ and ‘Radiocarbon dating’).
Richer, S, (2015) Scientific dating. In A Mann, et al. Excavations at Town Mill, Hanbury Road, Droitwich, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2205.
Richer, S, (2015) Pollen analysis. In G Arnold, Archaeological watching brief of Pershore Weir Turbines, rear of Bridge Street, Pershore, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2193.
Daffern, N, Richer, S, and Marshall, P (2015) Radiocarbon Dating. In T Vaughan and J Webster, Archaeological investigations on the Flood Alleviation Scheme, Kempsey, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2189.
2014
Richer, S, (2014) Assessment of the environmental remains from Abbey Bridge, Evesham, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2140. (Pollen analysis).
Richer, S, (2014) Auger Survey at Church Hill Middle School, Redditch, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology, Worcestershire County Council, report 2125.
Richer, S, (2014) Environmental remains from an evaluation on land off Hawthorn Rise, Tibberton, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Archaeology Service, Worcestershire County Council, report 2123. (Pollen analysis).
Journal Articles
Marchant, R, Richer, S, Boles, O, Capitani, C, Courtney-Mustaphi ,CJ, Lane, P, Prendergast, ME, Stump, D, de Cort, G, Kaplan, JO, Phelps, L, Kay, A, Olago, D, Petek, N, Platts, P, Punwong, P, Widgren, M, Wynne-Jones, S, Ferro-Vázquez, C, Benard, J, Boivin, N, Crowther, A, Cuní-Sanchez, A, Deere, NJ, Ekblom, A, Farmer, J, Finch J, Fuller, D, Gaillard-Lemdahl, M-J, Gillson, L, Githumbi, E, Kabora, T, Kariuki, R, Kinyanjui, R, Kyazike, E, Lang, C, Leiju, J, Morrison, KD, Muiruri, V, Mumbi, C, Muthoni, R, Muzuka, A, Ndiema, E, Nzabandora, CK, Onjala, I, Pas Schrijver, A, Rucina, S, Shoemaker, A, Thornton-Barnett, S, van der Plas, G, Watson, EE, Williamson, D, Wright, D (2018). Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present. Earth-Science Reviews, 178, 322–37
Githumbi EN, Kariuki R, Shoemaker A, Courtney-Mustaphi CJ, Chuhilla M, Richer S, Lane P and Marchant R, (2018). Pollen, People and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Ecosystem Change at Amboseli, Kenya. Front. Earth Sci., 5, 113. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2017.00113.
Walsh, K, Richer, S, and de Beaulieu, J-L, (2006) Attitudes to altitude: changing meanings and perceptions within a “marginal” Alpine landscape – the integration of palaeoecological and archaeological data in a high-altitude landscape in the French Alps, World Archaeology, 38(3), 436–454.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438240600813392.
Walsh, K, Court-Picon, M, de Beaulieu, J-L, Guiter, F, Mocci, F, Richer, S, Sinet, R, Talon, B and Tzortzis, S, (2014) A historical ecology of the Ecrins (Southern French Alps): Archaeology and palaeoecology of the Mesolithic to the medieval period, Quaternary International, 353(5), 52–73.doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.060.
Richer, S (2017) ‘The site that slipped through the ‘lime decline’ net: A Holocene history of Tilia at Shrawley Wood, Worcestershire, UK’, Quaternary Newsletter, 140.
Mocci, F, Walsh, K, Richer, S, Talon, B, Tzortzis, S, Martinez, JMP, and Bressy, C, (2007) Archéologie et paléoenvironnement dans les Alpes méridionales françaises, Hauts massifs de l’Argentiérois, du Champsaur et de l’Ubaye, Hautes-Alpes et Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Néolithique final-début de l’Antiquité. In Cahiers de Paléoenvironnement, 6, 253–272.
Books
Richer, S, (2013) Writing a dissertation – the essential guide. Peterborough: Need2Know.
Book Chapters
Richer, S, (2018) ‘Peat Deposits’. In S López Varela (ed) The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences.
Barrett J H, Farr, L R, Redhouse, D, Richer, S, Zimmermann J, Sharpe L, Ovenden S, Moore J, Poller T, Milek, K B, Simpson I A, Smith, M, Gourley, B, and O’Connor, T, (2012) Quoygrew and its landscape context. In JH Barrett (ed), Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900–1600. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 25–46.
Tzortzis, S, Mocci, F, Walsh, K, Talon, B, Court-Picon, M, Dumas, V, Py, V and Richer, S, (2008) Les massifs de l’Argentiérois du Mésolithique au début de l’Antiquité. In D Garcia and H Richard, (eds), Le peuplement de l’arc alpin. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 123–8.
Publications for a wider audience
Policy Brief: Stump, D and Richer, S, (2017) ‘Terraces are good, but sediment traps are better’. AAREA Policy Brief No. 1, University of York.
Film: ‘Grains of Truth’, in conjunction with Ambient Film. Archaeological research in East Africa. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJKal9rkFKo
Article: Richer, S, and Stump, D, (2016) ‘More than just a terrace: a past perspective on the multifunctional agriculture of Konso, Ethiopia’ in World Farming Organisation publication F@rmletters. Download available here.
Article: Richer, S, and Lang, C, (2017) ‘Archaeological evidence for shifting irrigation and cultivation practices at Engaruka, Tanzania’ RAMSAR newsletter article.
Recipe book: Richer, S and Trustram Eve, N, (2013) Recipes from History: Chocolate. The Copper Pot, Bewdley.
Recipe book: Trustram Eve, N and Richer, S, (2012) Recipes from History: Damsons. The Copper Pot, Bewdley.