10. Abbreviations

¹⁴C – Radiocarbon Dating

AAR – Amino Acid Racemisation

ACC – Anteroconid Complex

AF – Alternating Field

AHOB – Ancient Human Occupation of Britain

AMS – Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

B2k – years before AD 2000

BGS – British Geological Survey

D/L – Dextrorotatory/Levorotatory

DRM – Depositional Remanent Magnetisation

EPMA – Electron Probe Microanalyzer

ESR – Electron Spin Resonance

FAA – Free Amino Acid

HER – Historic Environment Record

IRMS – Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry

IRPL – Infrared Photoluminescence

IR-RF – Infrared Radiofluorescence

IRSL – Infrared-Stimulated Luminescence

GI – Greenland Interstadial

GISP – Greenland Ice Sheet Project

GPTS – Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale

GRIP – Greenland Ice Core Project

GS – Greenland Stadial

ka – kilo annum (1000 years)

LA-ICPMS – Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

LAT – Lowest Astronomical Tide

Ma – Mega Annum (million years)

MIS – Marine Isotope Stage

MCMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo

NGRIP – North Greenland Ice Core Project

NPPF – National Planning Policy Framework

NRM – Natural Remanent Magnetisation

OASIS – Online AccesS to the Index of archaeological InvestigationS

OD – Ordnance Datum

OSL – Optically Stimulated Luminescence

pIR-IRSL – Post Infrared-Infrared Stimulated Luminescence

PAC – Palaeointensity-Assisted Chronology

PSV – Palaeosecular Variation

RESET – Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions

RPI – Relative Palaeointensity

SIMS – Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

SDQ – Schmelzband-Differenzierungs-Quotient = Enamel Differentiation Ratio/Quotient

TIMS – Thermal Ionisation Mass Spectrometry

TL – Thermoluminescence

THAA – Total Hydrolysable Amino Acid

TRM – Thermal Remanent Magnetisation

U-Th – Uranium-Thorium

VADM – Virtual Axial Dipole Moment

VGP – Virtual Geomagnetic Pole

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