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Çatalhöyük Reseach Project Volume 13 is now out with our chapter on reinterpreting the landscapes contemporary with the Neolithic settlement.

Just out in Near Eastern Archaeology (Vol. 83.2, pp. 88-97), an update on our work at Çatalhöyük: The paper can be found here, or email me for a copy. It’s part of the special issue on 25 years of research at the site: We also contributed to the paper on seasonality, led by Jesse Wolfhagen and […]

New paper from Tabitha Kabora’s PhD on the development of irrigation and terrace systems in Engaruka, Tanzania. Tabitha used agent-based modelling to estimate the time taken for terrace construction and their likely behaviour under a range of scenarios. The paper is in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.  Free access can be obtained for 50 days […]

Laura Turnbull and I have just published a paper in Ecological Indicators looking at how ideas of hydrological and sediment connectivity can be used to understand shrub encroachment in drylands, in particular using some of our data from the Sevilleta LTER site. You can freely download the paper from https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Y6NP,XRNLZ2~Y until 12th January 2019 or feel free to […]

Our reinterpretation of the palaeoenvironmental setting of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey has been published in Journal of Archaeological Science.  We found evidence for different styles of channel deposition from those previously thought, and suggestions of drier conditions.  The paper can be downloaded for free from here until 18th November 2017, or feel free to e-mail me for a […]

Co-edited with Alan Dykes of Kingston University and Mark Mulligan of King’s College London, the book is a collection of papers written by former students and colleagues of Professor John Thornes, written to commemorate his untimely passing in 2008. Further details can be found at http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470711213.html.  All royalties from the book go to the British Society for […]