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Persistence as Sustainability?: Exploring Urban Longevity in South-West Asia and Egypt (2025)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., Hinojosa-Balino, I., & Chelazzi, F. (2025). Persistence as Sustainability?: Exploring Urban Longevity in South-West Asia and Egypt. Journal of urban archaeology, 11, 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.jua.5.150269

The concept of settlement persistence, the duration of occupation of a settlement, has gained traction in archaeology as a way of articulating analyses of past societies in relation to sustainability science. Here we compare the durations of large se... Read More about Persistence as Sustainability?: Exploring Urban Longevity in South-West Asia and Egypt.

Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record (2025)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., Bogaard, A., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chelazzi, F., Feinman, G. M., Green, A. S., Hamerow, H., Munson, J., Ortman, S. G., & Thompson, A. E. (2025). Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), Article e2400696122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400696122

Definitions of sustainability commonly stress both systemic continuity and equality over time. However, the degree to which these two sides of sustainability might be related has not been systematically investigated. Recent theoretical and methodolog... Read More about Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record.

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.