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Landscape Archaeology and Climate Change in the Near East over the last 8,000 years. Directed by @eliasdan at @ArcDurham/@uni_tue/@SEELeeds, funded @ERCResearch

 Durham, England
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Joined March 2019
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We will host the @ERC_Research Scientific Council meeting this June. On the lead up, we're showcasing ERC-funded projects, including Prof. Dan Lawrence's groundbreaking research on the relationship between climate change and complex societies. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wTnsq
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📢 Job alert!📢 Do you have research & teaching interests in Egyptian Archaeology, including adjacent regions e.g. Nubia, from later Predynastic to the Classical periods? Join our Department as an Assistant Professor! Learn more and apply: durham.taleo.net/careersecti… #HiringNow
Pyramids in low sunlight under a blue sky with wispy clouds.

ALT Pyramids in low sunlight under a blue sky with wispy clouds.

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New paper! What did people use as fuel in Southwest Asia over the last 8,000 years? authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… TLDR - mostly whatever was lying around, including pruning waste, dung and olive cakes when population pressure meant they ran out of decent wood
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The CLaSS project may have finished in June, but the papers keep on coming!
Dr. Michelle de Gruchy@DrMWdeGruchy18 Dec 2024
New article! A team of us have developed a methodology for incorporating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data into a model of past land use that is suitable for #climate modelling @CLaSS_ERC @eliasdan #archaeology doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.…
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New paper out today in #PLOSONE dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.… Everything you ever wanted to know about olives and grapes in Southwest Asia but were afraid to ask!
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We use 3.9 million seeds and 124,000 bits of charcoal, plus some stats, to tell the story of these two crops across 6,000 years, from the Neolithic to the end of the Iron Age. tldr? Olives & grapes were integral to the economic, social, and demographic trajectories of the region
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Dan Lawrence@eliasdan22 May 2024
Job! 3-year postdoc using agent-based modelling to understand Mediterranean socio-ecological systems in the first millennium AD. Working with me, @HFoxhallForbes and the team of heroes that is @SSE1K Details: tinyurl.com/53ty5fep Tell your friends! @ERC_Reserach @caa_uk
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New CLaSS Paper in @AntiquityJ! What can 786,353 animal bones from 245 sites across 5,000 years tell us about the relationship between urban and rural settlements in Southwest Asia? Find out here (open access): doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.24
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If you are interested in past mobility and the #archaeology of routes, this book from a conference of the same name is now published and free to download! My chapter (1) with @eliasdan provides an overview of route studies across #Mesopotamia. Enjoy! thedigitalpress.org/roads/

Archaeologies of Roads

Download | PurchaseMedia Kit Tuna Kalaycı, ed. Archaeologies of Roads. 2023. What happens if we think of roads not only as a static archaeological object but as a dynamic and complex phenomenon? In…

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Dan Lawrence@eliasdan17 Jul 2023
Senior managers in UK universities have made some questionable decisions in the last few years. In unrelated news, I've been promoted to Professor...
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New job! durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
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CLaSS project workshop now underway @icaane13 - @DrMWdeGruchy with finger on the pulse as usual helping Jo Clarke to be heard!
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New CLaSS paper!
Dan Lawrence@eliasdan5 Apr 2023
Just published - settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… with @DrMWdeGruchy, Ishiba Hinojosa-Baliño and the much missed @SumerUruk

Long-term trends in settlement persistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for sustainable urbani...

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 featur...

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Dr. Michelle offered a fun and important lecture. #QadisiyahArc @DrMWdeGruchy – at Iraq
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Excellent work and fascinating conclusions in @eliasdan's recent talk at @UofGArchaeo on the persistence of cities in SW Asia. Can be viewed via the link: echo360.org.uk/section/8f327…
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New paper with input from the CLaSS team!
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📢Job Alert! @ArcDurham @EAMENA @CLaSS_ERC are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher looking at landscapes and cultural heritage protection in Southwest Asia. Deadline February 23, 2023 #archaeology #PDRA #jobalert To apply: durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
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Dan Lawrence@eliasdan6 Jan 2023
Replying to @JaafarJotheri
@JaafarJotheri and I wrote a little bit about the life of our friend and colleague, Dr Abdulamir Al-hamdani (@SumerUruk) for @IraqJournal - tinyurl.com/2p8dnf8w An extraordinary person much missed by many
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Dan Lawrence@eliasdan6 Jan 2023
Still time to get involved in this - deadline is February 9th!
Dan Lawrence@eliasdan20 Dec 2022
Ancient Inequality Kids! Scott Ortman and I are running a session @archaeologyEAA in Belfast next year - #184, Material Wealth? New Approaches to the Archaeology of Social Inequality and Complexity. Get your papers in here: bit.ly/3PDAxuM
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