Nicholas J.G. Pearce

Aberystwyth University — United Kingdom

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(101), Geological and Geochemical Analysis(86), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping(41), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(31), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies(25)

Publications221 total

The enigmatic ‘Newall boulder’ excavated at Stonehenge in 1924: New data and correcting the record
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2025Open Access
Lithological and geochemical characterization of ‘adinole’ artefacts from cave deposits in southwest Wales: A material of choice during the late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic
Quaternary Environments and Humans·2025Open Access
Stonehenge and its Altar Stone: the significance of distant stone sources
Archaeology International·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Was the Stonehenge Altar Stone from Orkney? Investigating the mineralogy and geochemistry of Orcadian Old Red sandstones and Neolithic circle monuments
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone came all the way from north-east Scotland – here’s how we worked out this astonishing new finding
2024
A Scottish provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge
Nature·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Investigating the Secrets of Stonehenge with Raman Spectroscopy: Provenance of the Ancient Altar Stone
Microscopy Today·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
China: Bamboo-carving
Oxford Art Online·2023
China: Export ceramics
Oxford Art Online·2023
The Stonehenge Altar Stone was probably not sourced from the Old Red Sandstone of the Anglo-Welsh Basin: Time to broaden our geographic and stratigraphic horizons?
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Lithological description and provenancing of a collection of bluestones from excavations at Stonehenge by William Hawley in 1924 with implications for the human versus ice transport debate of the monument's bluestone megaliths
Geoarchaeology·2023· 4 cited
Ibex Hollow Tuff from ca. 12 Ma supereruption, southern Idaho, identified across North America, eastern Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico
Geosphere·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Assessing the authenticity of a sample taken from the Altar Stone at Stonehenge in 1844 using portable XRF and automated SEM-EDS
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Reconstructing extraction techniques at Stonehenge’s bluestone megalith quarries in the Preseli hills of west Wales
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2022· 8 cited
An integrative geochronological framework for the Pleistocene So'a basin (Flores, Indonesia), and its implications for faunal turnover and hominin arrival
Quaternary Science Reviews·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Volcanism and the Greenland ice cores: A new tephrochronological framework for the last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) based on cryptotephra deposits in three ice cores
Quaternary Science Reviews·2022· 40 citedOpen Access
Identification of the source of dolerites used at the Waun Mawn stone circle in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales and implications for the proposed link with Stonehenge
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2022· 15 citedOpen Access
Portable XRF investigation of Stonehenge Stone 62 and potential source dolerite outcrops in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Linking derived debitage to the Stonehenge Altar Stone using portable X-ray fluorescence analysis
Mineralogical Magazine·2022· 16 citedOpen Access
Larkin, T. J.
2022
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Frequent Co-authors

William T. Perkins(23), John A. Westgate(20), Vicki Smith(5), Peter M Abbott(5), Shari J. Preece(5), Warren J. Eastwood(5), Siwan M. Davies(4), R. Fuge(4), Teresa E. Jeffries(4), Duane Froese(4), Ravi Korisettar(3), Brent V. Alloway(3), Anders Svensson(3), Henry F. Lamb(2), Sander van der Kaars(2), J.N. Pattan(2), Phil Shane(2), Stefan Wastegård(2), Stephen C. Kuehn(2), Darren F. Mark(2)