Long-term Settlement Trends in the Birecik-Carchemish Sectors (2016)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, D., & Ricci, A. (2016). Long-term Settlement Trends in the Birecik-Carchemish Sectors. In T. Wilkinson, E. Peltenburg, & E. Wilkinson (Eds.), Carchemish in Context: the Land of Carchemish Project 2006 - 2010 (38-67). Oxbow

Over the past three decades the construction of the Birecik and Carchemish Dams in Turkey and the Tishrin Dam in Syria has led to an explosion of archaeological work along the Middle Euphrates valley. More recently, scholars have begun to investigate... Read More about Long-term Settlement Trends in the Birecik-Carchemish Sectors.

Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: a first approximation (2016)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., Philip, G., Hunt, H., Snape-Kennedy, L., & Wilkinson, T. (2016). Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: a first approximation. PLoS ONE, 11(3), Article e0152563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152563

Over the last 8000 years the Fertile Crescent of the Near East has seen the emergence of urban agglomerations, small scale polities and large territorial empires, all of which had profound effects on settlement patterns. Computational approaches, inc... Read More about Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: a first approximation.