Dr Christine Lane

Postdoctoral Researcher in Tephrochronology, RESET Project

Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Rd, Oxford, OX1 3QY

phone: 01865 285203

fax: 01865 285220

email: christine.lane@rlaha.ox.ac.uk

Research interests

My main research interests are in Quaternary chronologies, with a particular focus on using tephrachonology to understand the timing and responses of both humans and their environment to past climatic fluctuations.

 

I am currently working as a post-doctoral researcher on the RESET project, responsible for cryptotephra investigations within both terrestrial and marine palaeoenvironmental archives and Palaeolithic archaeological sites.

 

One focus of my research is in building regional tephra frameworks, which provide important stratigraphic information in support of proximal to distal tephra correlations based upon chemical composition analysis (electron microprobe and laser ablation ICP-MS).

Education

DPhil Archaeological Science, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford.
"Exploring the variability of microtephra deposits: chemical characterisation and discrimination methods"
MSc Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
Thesis "Toward a Tephrastratigraphy for the Lateglacial of Northwest England : Site Investigations and Methodological Recommendations"
BSc (Hons) Geology University of Wales, Cardiff

Current & Past Research Projects

Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellowship: Tephra records of east African changing environments. Commencing 1st April 2012.

NERC consortium project: Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions (RESET).  Post-doctoral researcher, Work Package 6: Abrupt environmental transitions and tephras in continental records.
http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/reset/embed.php?File=

Cost Action ES0907: INTegrating Ice core, MArine and TErrestrial records (INTIMATE). http://cost-es0907.geoenvi.org/. Co-ordinator of the chronology working group sub-committee on correlations, April 2011 ongoing.

The Late Pleistocene tephrostratigraphy of Lake Malawi. In collaboration with Professor Tom Johnson, Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota (Lake Malawi Drilling Project: http://malawidrilling.syr.edu/).

The Campanian Ignimbrite tephra layer - a regional stratigraphic marker for the MIS 3 loess deposits of Romania. In collaboration with Dr Daniel Veres, Institutul de Speologie "Emil Racovita", Romania.

The Youngest Toba Tuff as a crypto-tephra horizon in Middle Palaeolithic archaeological sites in India. In collaboration with Professor Michael Petraglia, University of Oxford (The Toba Super-eruption project:
http://toba.arch.ox.ac.uk/). Completed July 2011.

Publications

Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings

In press
Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Hardiman, M., Rasmussen, S., Seierstad, I., Steffensen, J.P., Svensson, A., Lotter, A.F., Turney, C.S., Ramsey, C.B. and INTIMATE members, Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records over the last 60,000 years, and an extended INTIMATE1 event stratigraphy to 48,000 b2k, Quaternary Science Reviews,
Lane, C.S., Blockley, S.P.E., Lotter, A.F., Finsinger, W., Filippi, M.L. and Matthews, I.P., A regional tephrostratigraphic framework for central and southern European climate archives during the Last Glacial to Interglacial Transition: comparisons north and south of the Alps., Quaternary Science Reviews,
Lane, C.S., Blockley, S.P.E., Mangerud, J., Smith, V.C., Lohne, Ø.S., Tomlinson, E.L., Matthews, I.P. and Lotter, A.F. , Was the 12.1 ka Icelandic Vedde Ash one of a kind?, Quaternary Science Reviews,
Lane, C.S., de Klerk, P. and Cullen, V.L. , A tephrochronology for the Lateglacial vegetation record of Endinger Bruch, Vorpommern, Journal of Quaternary Science,
2011
Finsinger, W., Lane, C.S., Blockley, S.P.E., van den Brand, G. and Wagner-Cremer, F. , (2011), The late-glacial Quercus expansion in the southern European Alps: rapid vegetation response to a late Allerød climate warming?, Journal of Quaternary Science, 26,694-702
Lane, C.S., Andric, M., Cullen, V.L., Blockley, S.P.E. , (2011), The occurrence of distal Icelandic and Italian tephra in the Lateglacial of Lake Bled, Slovenia, Quaternary Science Reviews, 30,1013-1018
Lane, C.S., Blockley, S.P.E., Lotter, A.F. and Bronk Ramsey, C., (2011), Tephrochronology and absolute centennial scale synchronisation of European and Greenland records for the last glacial to interglacial transition: a case study of Soppensee and NGRIP, Quaternary International, 246
Lane, C.S., Haslam, M., Petraglia, M., Ditchfield, P., Smith, V.C. and Korisettar, R., (2011), Cryptotephra from the 74 kyr BP Toba super-eruption in the Billa Surgam caves, southern India, Quaternary Science Reviews, 30,1819-1824
Riede, F., Bazely, O., Newton, A.J. and Lane, C.S., (2011), A Laacher See-eruption supplement to Tephrabase. Investigating distal tephra fall-out dynamics, Quaternary International, 246
Smith, V.C., Pearce, N.J.G., Matthews, N.E., Westgate, J.A., Petraglia, M.D., Haslam, M., Lane, C.S., Korisettar, R. & Pal, N.J. , (2011), Geochemical fingerprinting the widespread Toba tephra using biotite compositions., Quaternary International, 246,doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.012
2010
Barker, G., Antoniadou, A., Armitage, S., Brooks, I., Candy, I., Connell, K., Douka, K., Drake, N., Farr, L., Hill, E., Hunt, C., Inglish, R., Jones, S., Lane, C., Luccharini, G., Meneely, J., Morales, J., Mutri, G., Prendergast, A., Rabett, R., Reade, H., Reynolds, T., Russell, N., Simpson, D., Smith, B., Stimpson, C, Twati, M. and White K., (2010), The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2010: the fourth season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the 2007-2009 fieldwork, Libyan Studies, 41,63-88
2009
Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P. et al., (2009), Quaternary abstracts: the human dimension in rapid environmental change, Abstracts from the Quaternary Research Association's annual discussion meeting, January 2009, University of Oxford , ISSN: 1759-0507
2008
Blockley, S. P. E., Ramsey, C. B., Lane, C. S. & Lotter A. F., (2008), Improved age modelling approaches as exemplified by the Revised Chronology for the Central European Varved Lake, Soppensee, Quaternary Science Reviews, 27,61-67
Pollard, A.M. Blockley, S.P.E. & Lane, C.S., (2008), Reply to the comment on "Some numerical considerations in the geochemical analysis of distal microtephra", by Nicholas J.G. Pearce, Charles A. Bendall & John A. Westgate, Applied Geochemistry, 23,1365-1366
2007
Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Lotter, A.F. & Pollard, A.M., (2007), Evidence for the presence of the Vedde Ash in Central Europe, Quaternary Science Reviews, 26,3030-3036
2006
Blockley S. P. E., Blockley, S. M., Donahue, R. E., Lane, C. S., Lowe J. J. & Pollard, A. M., (2006), The chronology of abrupt climate change and Late Upper Palaeolithic human adaptation in Europe, Journal of Quaternary Science., 21(5),575-584
Pollard, A. M., Blockley, S.P.E. & Lane, C.S., (2006), Some Numerical Considerations in the Geochemical Analysis of Distal Microtephra, Applied Geochemistry, 21,1692-1714