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

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan (DMP)

Open Research Data Pilot Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

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

Housing inequality and settlement persistence are associated across the archaeological record

Author(s): Dan Lawrence, Amy Bogaard, Gabriela Cervantes Quequezana, Francesca Chelazzi, Gary M. Feinman, Adam S. Green, Helena Hamerow, Jessica Munson, Scott G. Ortman, Amy E. Thompson
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2400696122

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

A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets

Author(s): Lynn Welton, Emily Hammer, Francesca Chelazzi, Michelle de Gruchy, Jane Gaastra, Dan Lawrence
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 349, 2025, Page(s) 109142, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142

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

Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations

Author(s): Katleen Deckers, Simone Riehl, Doğa Karakaya, Tabea Müller, Kamal Badreshany, Valentina Tumolo, Dan Lawrence
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 62, 2025, Page(s) 104999, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.104999

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

Plant cultivation under climatic fluctuations during the sixth and fifth millennia BC at Tell Tawila (northern Syria)

Author(s): Johan Jarl, Simone Riehl, Katleen Deckers, Jörg Adam Becker
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 1866-9557
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-020-01200-4

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

Persistence as Sustainability?: Exploring Urban Longevity in South-West Asia and Egypt

Author(s): Dan Lawrence, Israel Hinojosa-Balino, Francesca Chelazzi
Published in: Journal of Urban Archaeology, Issue 11, 2025, Page(s) 85-97, ISSN 2736-2426
Publisher: Brepols Publishers NV
DOI: 10.1484/j.jua.5.150269

War both reduced and increased inequality over the past 10,000 years

Author(s): Mark D. McCoy, Jennifer Birch, Shadreck Chirikure, Pablo Cruz, Adam S. Green, Detlef Gronenborn, Dan Lawrence, Paul Roscoe
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2400695121

Book chapters (2)

Route Studies Across Greater Mesopotamia: Past, Present, and Future

Author(s): Michelle de Gruchy, Dan Lawrence
Published in: Archaeologies of Roads, 2024
Publisher: The Digital Press

Seal-Impressed Vessels at Hama, Syria (c. 2500-2000 BC)

Author(s): Agnese Vacca; Valentina Tumolo; Georges Mouamar; Stephen Lumsden
Published in: Issue 1, 2025
Publisher: Archaeopress