All Outputs (3)

Water in an Abbasid City: The Sources, Distribution, and Significance of Water at Samarra (2025)
Journal Article
Brown, P. J. (online). Water in an Abbasid City: The Sources, Distribution, and Significance of Water at Samarra. Journal of Abbasid Studies, https://doi.org/10.1163/22142371-00802031

This paper approaches the city of Samarra through one of its most fundamental attributes - the water supply. In seeking to understand how water was transported to, and distributed throughout, the vast metropolitan area, as well as the significance of... Read More about Water in an Abbasid City: The Sources, Distribution, and Significance of Water at Samarra.

The contribution of archaeology to the study of historical disasters (2017)
Book Chapter
Brown, P. (2017). The contribution of archaeology to the study of historical disasters. In R. O'Sullivan, C. Marini, & J. Binnberg (Eds.), Archaeological approaches to breaking boundaries : interaction, integration and division : proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conferences 2015–2016 (239-245). BAR Publishing

Recently, a ‘call to arms’ has been issued to historians, emphasising the contribution their discipline can bring to the study of the impact of catastrophes on human society, specifically in the medieval period. This highlights the, relatively, long-... Read More about The contribution of archaeology to the study of historical disasters.

Coasts of catastrophe? The incidence and impact of aeolian sand on British medieval coastal communities (2015)
Journal Article
Brown, P. (2015). Coasts of catastrophe? The incidence and impact of aeolian sand on British medieval coastal communities. Post Classical Archaeologies, 5, 127-148

Natural hazards exert a considerable influence on vulnerable populations living in riskprone areas. Archaeological and historical evidence offers a unique perspective from which to explore this relationship. This paper examines the hazard of wind-blo... Read More about Coasts of catastrophe? The incidence and impact of aeolian sand on British medieval coastal communities.