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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 by Lawrence, Dan, Palmisano, Alessio, de Gruchy, Michelle W

“…The rise and fall of ancient societies have been attributed to rapid climate change events. One of the most discussed of these is the 4.2kya event, a period of…”
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Impacts of long term climate change during the collapse of the Akkadian Empire by Cookson, Evangeline, Hill, Daniel J., Lawrence, Dan

“…Four thousand years ago what is often considered to be the world's first empire, the Akkadian Empire, collapsed. Proxy data has suggested a regional…”
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A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains by Deckers, Katleen, Riehl, Simone, Meadows, Joseph, Tumolo, Valentina, Hinojosa-Baliño, Israel, Lawrence, Dan

“…Evaluating archaeobotanical data from over 3.9 million seeds and 124,300 charcoal fragments across 330 archaeological site phases in Southwest Asia, we…”
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Long Term Population, City Size and Climate Trends in the Fertile Crescent: A First Approximation by Lawrence, Dan, Philip, Graham, Hunt, Hannah, Snape-Kennedy, Lisa, Wilkinson, T J

“…Over the last 8000 years the Fertile Crescent of the Near East has seen the emergence of urban agglomerations, small scale polities and large territorial…”
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The NERD Dataset: Near East Radiocarbon Dates between 15,000 and 1,500 cal. yr. BP by Palmisano, Alessio, Bevan, Andrew, Lawrence, Dan, Shennan, Stephen

“…To our knowledge, the dataset described in this paper represents the largest existing repository of uncalibrated radiocarbon dates for the whole Near East from…”
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Correction: Long Term Population, City Size and Climate Trends in the Fertile Crescent: A First Approximation by Lawrence, Dan, Philip, Graham, Hunt, Hannah, Snape-Kennedy, Lisa, Wilkinson, T J

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152563.]…”
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New Book Chronicle by Lawrence, Dan

“…Alex R. Knodell & Thomas P. Leppard (ed.). 2018. Regional approaches to society and complexity (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 15). Sheffield:…”
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New Book Chronicle by Lawrence, Dan

“…Michael A. Anderson & Damian Robinson. 2018. House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9–10.23). Oxford: Oxbow;…”
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New Book Chronicle by Lawrence, Dan

“…Two books are reviewed: KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN, THOMAS LINDKVIST & JANKEN MYRDAL (ed.). 2018. Trade and civilisation. Economic networks and cultural ties, from…”
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New Book Chronicle by Lawrence, Dan

“…As I sit down to write this issue’s NBC, Britain is still part of the European Union, although for how long and under what circumstances is something of a…”
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New Book Chronicle by Lawrence, Dan

“…For this issue of NBC, we investigate a range of different approaches to the archaeology of ritual. The attribution of unexplained phenomena to ritual practice…”
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New Book Chronicle by Lawrence, Dan

“…And so to my next NBC, the difficult second album, the sophomore slump. As an antidote to any jitters on my part, in this issue we tackle a range of books…”
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Death and the Romans.(The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria: Burial, Commemoration, and Empire; Death as a Process: The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral ) by Lawrence, Dan

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Farming, fishing, feasting by Lawrence, Dan

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New Book Chronicle by Lawrence, Dan

“…Back in 2013, Rob Witcher, in his first NBC, mused on the future of academic publishing, and especially the potential impact of open access and e-books on…”
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Blackboard on a Shoestring: Tying Courses to Sources by Lawrence, Dan H.

“…Blackboard Learning System(tm) enhancements can provide high levels of sophistication and make it relatively simple to provide a seamless connection between…”
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Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies by Palmisano, Alessio, Lawrence, Dan, de Gruchy, Michelle W., Bevan, Andrew, Shennan, Stephen

“…This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to…”
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Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia by Gaastra, Jane S., Lawrence, Dan, Tumolo, Valentina

“…Historically, urban centres are seen as consumers that draw in labour and resources from their rural hinterlands. Zooarchaeological studies of key urban sites…”
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Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways by Boon, Maddy, Motta, Davide, Massa, Michele, Wainwright, John, Lawrence, Dan, Ayala, Gianna

“…This study investigates the use of planform sinuosity as a metric to produce an automatic classification of waterways in the pre-modern and present-day…”
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Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbanism, past, present and future by Lawrence, Dan, de Gruchy, Michelle W, Hinojosa-Baliño, Israel, Al-Hamdani, Abdulameer

“…Southwest Asia saw the emergence of large settlements in the Early Holocene, and the world’s first urban communities around 6000 years ago, with cities a…”
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