Vince Gaffney
British landscape archaeologist who mapped Doggerland
- Field
- Landscape archaeology
- Position
- Anniversary Chair in Landscape Archaeology, University of Bradford (earlier at Birmingham)
- Known for
- Mapping Doggerland from North Sea seismic survey data
- Book
- Europe's Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland (2009, with S. Fitch and D. Smith)
- Also
- Stonehenge landscape surveys; pit circuit around Durrington Walls
The archaeologist whose teams used oil-industry seismic data to map the rivers, lakes and coasts of drowned Doggerland.
What is Vince Gaffney known for?
Vince Gaffney is a British landscape archaeologist who has worked at the University of Birmingham and the University of Bradford. He is known for applying remote sensing and geophysics to large, hidden landscapes.
From the mid-2000s, Gaffney led projects such as the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, which reused three-dimensional seismic survey data gathered by the oil and gas industry to reconstruct the land surface of Doggerland, now under the North Sea. The teams traced buried river valleys, lakes and coastlines, including a large river system they named the Shotton River. The results were published in Europe's Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland (2009). Later work has recovered sediment cores and ancient DNA from the seabed.
He has also led geophysical surveys of the landscape around Stonehenge, where his team identified a large circuit of pits around Durrington Walls. His later book Europe's Lost Frontiers describes the continuing Doggerland research.
His projects mapped Doggerland's buried rivers from seismic data.
Mentioned on these pages
- Rabbit holeDoggerland
- PersonBryony Coles
Sources
- Wikipedia, 'Vincent Gaffney'Reference
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