Climate, Landscape, Settlement and Society: Exploring Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East

Project Information

CLaSS

Grant agreement ID: 802424

DOI 10.3030/802424

Project closed

EC signature date 5 October 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 30 June 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 498 650,00

EU contribution € 1 498 650,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

Open Research Data Pilot Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon

Author(s): Katleen Deckers, Simone Riehl, Valentina Tumolo, Hermann Genz, Dan Lawrence
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 36, 2021, Page(s) 102841, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102841

Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene

Author(s): Zarina Hewett, Michelle de Gruchy, Daniel Hill, Dan Lawrence
Published in: Levant, Issue 54, 2023, Page(s) 5-28, ISSN 0075-8914
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2022.2052660

The ‘Combed Ware’ storage and transport vessels from Khirbet ez-Zeraqon: a reappraisal of the EB II-III evidence in light of recent studies

Author(s): Tumolo, Valentina; Badreshany, Kamal
Published in: Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 301-324, ISSN 1944-2815
Publisher: Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections

Collapse and continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event

Author(s): Dan Lawrence, Alessio Palmisano, Michelle W. de Gruchy
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 16/1, 2021, Page(s) e0244871, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244871

Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future

Author(s): Dan Lawrence, Michelle de Gruchy, Israel Hinojosa-Baliño, Abdulameer Al-Hamdani
Published in: Urban Studies, 2023, ISSN 0042-0980
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/00420980231161245

Landscapes, climate and choice: Examining patterns in animal provisioning across the Near East c. 13,000-0 BCE

Author(s): J.S. Gaastra, L. Welton, M. de Gruchy, D. Lawrence
Published in: Quaternary International, Issue 595, 2021, Page(s) 54-87, ISSN 1040-6182
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.03.045

The NERD Dataset: Near East Radiocarbon Dates between 15,000 and 1,500 cal. yr. BP

Author(s): Palmisano, Alessio, Bevan, Andrew, Lawrence, Dan, Shennan, Stephen
Published in: Journal of Open Archaeology Data, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2049-1565
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/joad.90

Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia

Author(s): Jane S. Gaastra, Dan Lawrence, Valentina Tumolo
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 98, 2024, Page(s) 363-379, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.24

Climate change and early urbanism in Southwest Asia: A review

Author(s): Dan Lawrence, Graham Philip, Michelle W. de Gruchy
Published in: WIREs Climate Change, Issue 13, 2021, Page(s) e741, ISSN 1757-7780
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.741

Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies

Author(s): Alessio Palmisano, Dan Lawrence, Michelle W. de Gruchy, Andrew Bevan, Stephen Shennan
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 252, 2021, Page(s) 106739, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106739

A systematic approach for studying the persistence of settlements in the past

Author(s): Crawford, K Huster, A Peeples, M Gauthier, N Smith, M Lobo, J Lawrence, D
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 97(391), 2023, Page(s) 213-230, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.175

Wealth Inequality in the Ancient Near East: A Preliminary Assessment Using Gini Coefficients and Household Size

Author(s): Pertev Basri, Dan Lawrence
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2020, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0959-7743
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774320000177

Impacts of long term climate change during the collapse of the Akkadian Empire

Author(s): Evangeline Cookson, Daniel J. Hill, Dan Lawrence
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 106, 2019, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.009

A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains

Author(s): Katleen Deckers, Simone Riehl, Joseph Meadows, Valentina Tumolo, Israel Hinojosa-Baliño, Dan Lawrence
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0303578, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303578

Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements

Author(s): Deckers, Katleen, Polisca, Federico, Riehl, Simone, de Gruchy, Michelle, Lawrence, Dan
Published in: Environmental Archaeology, 2021, ISSN 1749-6314
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2021.1989977