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Resilience and Adaptation of Agricultural Practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey (2022)
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Ayala, G., Bogaard, A., Charles, M., & Wainwright, J. (2022). Resilience and Adaptation of Agricultural Practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. World Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2022.2125058

Andrew Sherratt’s ‘Water, soil and seasonality’, World Archaeology (1980), signposted a long-term debate surrounding early farming adaptations to riverine landscapes in western Asia and Europe. Recent research at Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, a key... Read More about Resilience and Adaptation of Agricultural Practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey.

A multi‐method approach to analyse changes in gully characteristics between 2009 and 2018 in southeast Nigeria (2022)
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Osumgborogwu, I. E., Wainwright, J., Turnbull, L., & Uzoigwe, L. O. (2022). A multi‐method approach to analyse changes in gully characteristics between 2009 and 2018 in southeast Nigeria. Land Degradation and Development, 33(9), 1398-1409. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4246

Gully erosion is the dominant environmental problem in southeast Nigeria and has led to loss of human and material resources. In this study, we evaluated changes in gully characteristics in southeast Nigeria and their potential drivers between 2009 a... Read More about A multi‐method approach to analyse changes in gully characteristics between 2009 and 2018 in southeast Nigeria.

Holistic Approaches to Palaeohydrology: Reconstructing and Modelling the Neolithic River Çarşamba and the Riverscape of Çatalhöyük, Turkey (2021)
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Wainwright, J., & Ayala, G. (2021). Holistic Approaches to Palaeohydrology: Reconstructing and Modelling the Neolithic River Çarşamba and the Riverscape of Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Holocene, 32(11), 1277-1304. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836211041744

Alluvial landscapes have long been considered optimal locations for Neolithic settlement because of the availability of water and nutrientbearing silts. However, the dynamics of these landscapes have often been underestimated in relation to the inter... Read More about Holistic Approaches to Palaeohydrology: Reconstructing and Modelling the Neolithic River Çarşamba and the Riverscape of Çatalhöyük, Turkey.

What do models tell us about water and sediment connectivity? (2020)
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Baartman, J. E., Nunes, J. P., Masselink, R., Darboux, F., Bielders, C., Degre, A., …Wainwright, J. (2020). What do models tell us about water and sediment connectivity?. Geomorphology, 367, Article 107300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107300

Connectivity has been embraced by the geosciences community as a useful concept to understand and describe hydrological functioning and sediment movement through catchments. Mathematical modelling has been used for decades to quantify and predict ero... Read More about What do models tell us about water and sediment connectivity?.

Çatalhöyük and Its Landscapes (2020)
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Ayala, G., & Wainwright, J. (2020). Çatalhöyük and Its Landscapes. Near Eastern Archaeology, 83(2), 88-97. https://doi.org/10.1086/709176

T he landscape surrounding the site of Çatalhöyük has been transformed by centuries of land use and agricultural improvements (fig. 1). The most recent transformations started in the early twentieth century aiming to improve agricultural productivity... Read More about Çatalhöyük and Its Landscapes.

The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük (2020)
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Wolfhagen, J., Veropoulidou, R., Ayala, G., Filipović, D., Kabukcu, C., Lancelotti, C., …Wainwright, J. (2020). The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük. Near Eastern Archaeology, 83(2), 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1086/708446

Seasonal variation in the natural world of Neolithic Çatalhöyük shaped the organization of daily life and the social world of its residents. Seasonal cycles in climatic patterns, hydrology, growing seasons of wild and domestic plants, and seasonal be... Read More about The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük.

A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes (2020)
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Sinha, P., Rollason, E., Bracken, L. J., Wainwright, J., & Reaney, M. S. (2020). A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes. Science of the Total Environment, 721, Article 137646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137646

Water shortages are forecast to affect 50% of the world's population by 2030, impacting developing nations most acutely. To increase water security there has been a significant increase in Inter-basin Water Transfer (IBWT) schemes, engineering mega-p... Read More about A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes.

How did that get there? Understanding sediment transport and accumulation rates in agricultural landscapes using the ESTTraP agent-based model (2019)
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Kabora, T., Stump, D., & Wainwright, J. (2020). How did that get there? Understanding sediment transport and accumulation rates in agricultural landscapes using the ESTTraP agent-based model. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 29, Article 102115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102115

The 15th–18th century CE site of Engaruka in Tanzania is often described as primarily comprising drystone agricultural terraces, but it is now known that many of these former farming plots are not terraces per se, but are instead sediment traps. Stra... Read More about How did that get there? Understanding sediment transport and accumulation rates in agricultural landscapes using the ESTTraP agent-based model.

Multispectral Contrast of Archaeological Features: A Quantitative Evaluation (2019)
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Kalayci, T., Lasaponara, R., Wainwright, J., & Masini, N. (2019). Multispectral Contrast of Archaeological Features: A Quantitative Evaluation. Remote Sensing, 11(9), Article 913. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11080913

This study provides an evaluation of spectral responses of hollow ways in Upper Mesopotamia. Hollow ways were used for the transportation of animals, carts, and other moving agents for centuries. The aim is to show how the success of spectral indices... Read More about Multispectral Contrast of Archaeological Features: A Quantitative Evaluation.

A low-cost bench-top research device for turbidity measurement by radially distributed illumination intensity sensing at multiple wavelengths (2019)
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Kitchener, B., Dixon, S., Howarth, K., Parsons, A., Wainwright, J., Bateman, M., …Hewett, C. (2019). A low-cost bench-top research device for turbidity measurement by radially distributed illumination intensity sensing at multiple wavelengths. HardwareX (Oxford), 5, Article e00052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2019.e00052

Presented here is a new bench-top research device for the measurement of the optical turbidity of natural sediment-laden water samples. This prototype device employs 18 unique angular measurement positions and a variety of user-selectable LED light s... Read More about A low-cost bench-top research device for turbidity measurement by radially distributed illumination intensity sensing at multiple wavelengths.

From structure to function: understanding shrub encroachment in drylands using hydrological and sediment connectivity (2018)
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Turnbull, L., & Wainwright, J. (2018). From structure to function: understanding shrub encroachment in drylands using hydrological and sediment connectivity. Ecological Indicators, 98, 608-618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.11.039

Hydrological and sediment connectivity can help us to understand better how physical and process-based linkages govern ecogeomorphic feedbacks and identify locations where degradation is likely to be pronounced. In this study we investigate how hydro... Read More about From structure to function: understanding shrub encroachment in drylands using hydrological and sediment connectivity.

New approaches to field-model data comparison: Numerical modelling of the last glacial cycle in the Welland catchment, England (2018)
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Briant, R., Wainwright, J., & Maddy, D. (2018). New approaches to field-model data comparison: Numerical modelling of the last glacial cycle in the Welland catchment, England. Geomorphology, 323, 106-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.006

The extent to which deposition within river systems is driven by climate over glacial-interglacial timescales, and the nature of such linkages, is much debated. Answering such questions from the geological record is often limited by a lack of geochro... Read More about New approaches to field-model data comparison: Numerical modelling of the last glacial cycle in the Welland catchment, England.

Applying Pattern Oriented Sampling in current fieldwork practice to enable more effective model evaluation in fluvial landscape evolution research (2018)
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Briant, R., Cohen, K., Cordier, S., Demoulin, A., Macklin, M., Mather, A., …Veldkamp, T. (2018). Applying Pattern Oriented Sampling in current fieldwork practice to enable more effective model evaluation in fluvial landscape evolution research. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43(14), 2964-2980. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4458

Field geologists and geomorphologists are increasingly looking to numerical modelling to understand landscape change over time, particularly in river catchments. The application of Landscape Evolution Models (LEMs) started with abstract research ques... Read More about Applying Pattern Oriented Sampling in current fieldwork practice to enable more effective model evaluation in fluvial landscape evolution research.

Communicating Risks to Infrastructure Due to Soil Erosion: A Bottom-Up Approach (2018)
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Hewett, C. J., Simpson, C., Wainwright, J., & Hudson, S. (2018). Communicating Risks to Infrastructure Due to Soil Erosion: A Bottom-Up Approach. Land Degradation and Development, 29(4), 1282-1294. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2900

Soil erosion is a major problem worldwide, affecting natural, agricultural and urban environments through its impact on flood risk, water quality, loss of topsoil, eutrophication of water bodies, sedimentation of waterways and damage to infrastructur... Read More about Communicating Risks to Infrastructure Due to Soil Erosion: A Bottom-Up Approach.

Virtual velocity of sand transport in water (2017)
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Parsons, A., Cooper, J., Wainwright, J., & Sekiguchi, T. (2018). Virtual velocity of sand transport in water. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43(3), 755-761. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4262

Using the 160-m-long flume at Tsukuba University we undertook an experiment to provide a first estimate of the virtual velocity of sand in the size range 0.5 – 2.0 mm. For the flow velocity used in our experiment this sediment-size range would conven... Read More about Virtual velocity of sand transport in water.

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the alluvial landscape of Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central southern Turkey: The implications for early agriculture and responses to environmental change (2017)
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Ayala, G., Wainwright, J., Walker, J., Hodara, R., Lloyd, J., Leng, M., & Doherty, C. (2017). Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the alluvial landscape of Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central southern Turkey: The implications for early agriculture and responses to environmental change. Journal of Archaeological Science, 87, 30-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2017.09.002

Archaeological discussions of early agriculture have often used the Neolithic village of Çatalhöyük in central southern Turkey as a key example of the restricting effect of environment on agricultural production and organization. Central to these dis... Read More about Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the alluvial landscape of Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central southern Turkey: The implications for early agriculture and responses to environmental change.

A review of the principles of turbidity measurement (2017)
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Kitchener, B., Wainwright, J., & Parsons, A. (2017). A review of the principles of turbidity measurement. Progress in Physical Geography, 41(5), 620-642. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133317726540

Turbidity of water due to the presence of suspended sediment is measured and interpreted in a variety of ways, which can lead to the misinterpretation of data. This paper re-examines the physics of light scattering in water, and exposes the extent to... Read More about A review of the principles of turbidity measurement.