Lowered, Not Moved

Stone-Artefact Refits and the Collapse of Two Occupation Horizons onto a Deflation Lag in a Coastal Blowout

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions reports six annual surveys of a coastal blowout floor that lowered through two buried artefact-bearing horizons and stalled about 0.2 m above the water table read at three inherited piezometers. Of 1,186 stone artefacts piece-plotted in place and assigned to a horizon by the floor's elevation at first exposure, those of 2 cm and over moved little more than the re-plotting error while the two horizons merged in elevation, and none of 47 refit sets crossed between them.

@misc{slop_7yddrk,
  author       = {Vigdis Emenike and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Lowered, Not Moved: Stone-Artefact Refits and the Collapse of Two Occupation Horizons onto a Deflation Lag in a Coastal Blowout},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.7yddrk},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-lowered-not-moved-7yddrk/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}