A5019631846- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Ancient Near East History
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Water resources management and optimization
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate change and permafrost
- Marine and environmental studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Water management and technologies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
Museum of London Archaeology
2015-2024
University College London
2014-2024
UCL Australia
2011-2015
Argonne National Laboratory
2006-2011
University of Chicago
2005-2011
University of London
2011
University of Alaska Anchorage
2009
A synthetic history of human land use Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 8000 years ago. Through a collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled comprehensive picture trajectory worldwide during Holocene (see Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed face Earth earlier greater extent than has been widely appreciated, transformation that was essentially global 3000 before present....
This article assesses the role of pre-modern past in construction political identities relating to UK’s membership European Union by examining how materials and ideas from Iron Age Early Medieval Britain Europe were leveraged those who discussed topic Brexit over 1.4 million messages published dedicated Facebook pages. Through a combination data-intensive qualitative investigations textual data, we identify ‘heritages’ invoked support pro- or anti-Brexit sentiments. We show these heritages...
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise moralizing religions in world history have been focus intense debate. Progress has limited by availability quantitative data to test competing theories, divergent ideas regarding both predictor outcomes variables, differences opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse information designed theories concerning evolutionary drivers social complexity. In addition Big Gods...
Archaeological surveys and satellite images are used to provide insights into the structure scale of Neo-Assyrian Empire. When this empire attained its peak during eighth seventh centuries B.C., it resulted in a distinct imprint on landscape which differs significantly from that Bronze Age. In period, capital cities unprecedented size, rural settlement patterns were predominantly dispersed, extent visible route systems increased, irrigation constructed for intensification agriculture parks...
Abstract Multispectral ASTER satellite imagery has recently become available for scholarly research. The overall bandwidth and spatial resolution of the system give it an advantage over older Landsat satellites. In northern Mesopotamia, modern day north Iraq, hollow ways, sites canals have all been located using system. This proven to be useful in both verifying results found CORONA data locating potential archaeological features that cannot easily distinguished on imagery. Spectral...
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise moralizing religions in world history have been focus intense debate. Progress has limited by availability quantitative data to test competing theories, divergent ideas regarding both predictor outcomes variables, differences opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse information designed theories concerning evolutionary drivers social complexity history. In addition...
This communication article provides a call for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) users in archaeology to make imagery data more publicly available while developing new application facilitate the use of common deep learning algorithm (mask region-based convolutional neural network; Mask R-CNN) instance segmentation. The intent is provide specialists with GUI-based tool that can apply annotation used training network models, enable and development segmentation allow classification auto-discovery...
Here agent‐based models are employed to explore the behavior of small communities and their associated economic systems within an area climatically marginal environment in northern Syria Iraq. The examples, drawn from late prehistoric Bronze Age societies that developed at onset urbanization, show how might respond various resource stresses environmental fluctuations. computer simulations demonstrate some households gain resources expense others community becomes more economically...
Characterizing and understanding social-ecological systems (SESs) is increasingly necessary to answer questions about the development of sustainable human settlements. To date, much literature on SES analysis has focused “neat” involving a single type resource, group users, governance system. While these studies provide valuable specific insights, they are limited use for application “messy” SESs that encompass totality settlements, including social organization technologies result in...
Recent palaeoenvironmental, historical, and archaeological investigations, primarily consisting of site reconnaissance, in the Shahrizor region within province Sulaymaniyah Iraqi Kurdistan are bringing to light new information on region's social socio-ecological development. This paper summarises two seasons work by researchers from German, British, Dutch, Iraqi-Kurdish institutions working survey region. Palaeoenvironmental data have determined that during Pleistocene many terraces...
The introduction of new technologies into small remote communities can alter how individuals acquire knowledge about their surrounding environment. This is especially true when that satisfy basic needs, such as freshwater use, create a distance (i.e., diminishing exposure) between and However, distancing potentially be countered by the transfer local community members from one generation to next. objective this study simulate way agent-based modeling tensions technology-induced are exerted...
We present a spatial interaction entropy maximizing and structural dynamics model of settlements from the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) Iron Ages (IA) in Khabur Triangle (KT) region within Syria.The addresses factors that make locations attractive for trade settlement, affecting settlement growth change.We explore why some sites become relatively major settlements, while others diminish periods discussed.We assess how political geographic constraints affect regional transformations, also...
Recent fieldwork and archival sedimentary materials from southern Iraq have revealed new insights into the environment that shaped Mesopotamia pre-Ubaid (early Holocene) until early Islamic period. These data been combined with northern Iraqi speleothem, or stalagmite, relevant palaeoclimate information. The results are investigated in light of textual sources satellite remote sensing work. It is evident areas south Baghdad, to region Uruk, were already potentially habitable between eleventh...
This work presents new data from phytolith and speleothem analyses that cover the middle to late Holocene northeastern Iraq in Kurdistan region. Coupling these with previous work, we demonstrate how region’s environment climate developed during a time when agriculture became not only established but settlements started transform into larger urban areas. Results wetter phase relative present period; highly seasonal one rainy season is also suggested between 8025 ± 38 6977 219 BP. Phytoliths...
Abstract Many modern cultural object collections suffer from the problem of being obtained in unethical and illegal circumstances. Additionally, information about collections, including their status, descriptions, other data need up-to-date presented to users. We propose a novel blockchain tool called Salsal that enables vetting objects, individually or as part more extensive meet required ethical legal guidelines while informing users relevant regarding collections. Blockchain provides...
This study assesses whether references to the ancient past in debates about political issues on social media over-represent negative and extreme views. Using precision-recall, we test performance of three sentiment analysis methods (VADER, TextBlob Flair Sentiment) a corpus 1,478,483 posts, comments replies published Brexit-themed Facebook pages between 2015 2017. Drawing results VADER manual coding, demonstrate that: 1) texts not containing keywords relating Iron Age, Roman medieval (IARM)...
This paper presents an agent-based complex system simulation of settlement structure change using methods derived from entropy maximization modeling. The approach is applied to model the movement people and goods in urban settings study how size hierarchy develops. While well known for assessing over different spatiotemporal settings, approaches have rarely attempted develop apply this methodology understand individual household decisions may affect distributions. A new method developed...