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The mortuary facilities and their contents (2015)
Book Chapter
Peltenburg, E., Bolger, D., Campbell, S., Jackson, A., Lunt, D., Parras, Z., …Watt, M. (2015). The mortuary facilities and their contents. In E. Peltenburg (Ed.), Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria I: Mortuary Practices at an Early Bronze Age Fort on the Euphrates River (37-97). Council for British Research in the Levant

Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence (2015)
Journal Article
Clarke, J., Brooks, N., Banning Edward, B., Bar-Matthews, M., Campbell, S., Clare, L., …Zerboni, A. (2016). Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136, 96-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.003

This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th... Read More about Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence.

Regional Power and Local Ecologies: Accumulated Population Trends and Human Impacts in the Northern Fertile Crescent (2015)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., Philip, G., Wilkinson, K., Buylaert, J., Murray, A., Thompson, W., & Wilkinson, T. (2017). Regional Power and Local Ecologies: Accumulated Population Trends and Human Impacts in the Northern Fertile Crescent. Quaternary International, 437(Part B), 60-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.026

Archaeological data tend to be gathered at the local level: human agency also operates at this scale. By combining data from multiple surveys conducted within a larger area, it is possible to use local datasets to obtain a perspective on regional tre... Read More about Regional Power and Local Ecologies: Accumulated Population Trends and Human Impacts in the Northern Fertile Crescent.

Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets (2015)
Journal Article
Bradbury, J., Davies, D., Jay, M., Philip, G., Roberts, C., & Scarre, C. (2016). Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(2), 561-591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9251-1

There can be few “bigger” questions than the nature and development of human experience and self-awareness and few better ways to study it than through the changing treatment of the dead over time. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the ‘Invisi... Read More about Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets.