Outputs (49)

A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets (2024)
Journal Article
Welton, L., Hammer, E., Chelazzi, F., de Gruchy, M., Gaastra, J., & Lawrence, D. (2025). A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets. Quaternary Science Reviews, 349, Article 109142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes have important biophysical and biogeochemical effects on climate via a variety of mechanisms. Several climate modelling studies have demonstrated the impact of LULC scenarios on past climate reconstructions. Tes... Read More about A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets.

Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways (2024)
Journal Article
Boon, M., Motta, D., Massa, M., Wainwright, J., Lawrence, D., & Ayala, G. (online). Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways. Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241285795

This study investigates the use of planform sinuosity as a metric to produce an automatic classification of waterways in the pre-modern and present-day irrigation networks in the Konya Plain in south-central Türkiye. Results show that such automatic... Read More about Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways.

A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains (2024)
Journal Article
Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Meadows, J., Tumolo, V., Hinojosa Balino, I., & Lawrence, D. (2024). A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains. PLoS ONE, 19(6), Article e0303578. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303578

Evaluating archaeobotanical data from over 3.9 million seeds and 124,300 charcoal fragments across 330 archaeological site phases in Southwest Asia, we reconstruct the history of olive and grape cultivation spanning a period of 6,000 years. Combining... Read More about A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains.

Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia (2024)
Journal Article
Gaastra, J. S., Lawrence, D., & Tumolo, V. (2024). Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia. Antiquity, 98(398), https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.24

Historically, urban centres are seen as consumers that draw in labour and resources from their rural hinterlands. Zooarchaeological studies of key urban sites in Southwest Asia demonstrate the movement of livestock, but the region-wide application of... Read More about Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia.

Route Studies Across Greater Mesopotamia: Past, Present, and Future (2023)
Book Chapter
de Gruchy, M., & Lawrence, D. (2023). Route Studies Across Greater Mesopotamia: Past, Present, and Future. In T. Kalayci (Ed.), Archaeologies of Roads. The Digital Press, University of North Dakota

The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data (2023)
Journal Article
Bogaard, A., Ortman, S., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chirikure, S., Crema, E., Cruz, P., Feinman, G., Fochesato, M., Green, A., Gronenborn, D., Hamerow, H., Jin, G., Kerig, T., Lawrence, D., McCoy, M., Munson, J., Roscoe, J., Rosenstock, E., Thompson, A., …Kohler, T. (2024). The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data. Antiquity, 98(397), Article e6. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.188

The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the ca... Read More about The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data.

Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future (2023)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., de Gruchy, M. W., Hinojosa-Baliño, I., & Al-Hamdani, A. (online). Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future. Urban Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231161245

Southwest Asia saw the emergence of large settlements in the Early Holocene, and the world’s first urban communities around 6000 years ago, with cities a feature of the region ever since. These developed in diverse environmental settings, including t... Read More about Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future.

A systematic approach for studying the persistence of settlements in the past (2023)
Journal Article
Crawford, K. A., Huster, A. C., Peeples, M. A., Gauthier, N., Smith, M. E., Lobo, J., York, A. M., & Lawrence, D. (2023). A systematic approach for studying the persistence of settlements in the past. Antiquity, 97(391), https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.175

Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée (2022)
Journal Article
Silva, F., Coward, F., Davies, K., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E., Newton, A. C., Riris, P., Vander Linden, M., Bates, J., Cantarello, E., Contreras, D. A., Crabtree, S. A., Crema, E. R., Edwards, M., Filatova, T., Fitzhugh, B., Fluck, H., Freeman, J., Klein Goldewijk, K., Krzyzanska, M., …Williams, A. (2022). Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée. Sustainability, 14(16), Article 10234. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610234

Human beings are an active component of every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Although our local impact on the evolution of these ecosystems has been undeniable and extensively documented, it remains unclear precisely how our activities are altering... Read More about Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée.

Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene (2022)
Journal Article
Hewett, Z., de Gruchy, M., Hill, D., & Lawrence, D. (2022). Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene. Levant, 54(1), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2022.2052660

Fluctuations in climate have been associated with significant societal changes, both in the modern day and in the past. In dryland environments such as much of Southwest Asia, rainfall is often used as a proxy for soil moisture available for crop pro... Read More about Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene.