| Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use L Stephens, D Fuller, N Boivin, T Rick, N Gauthier, A Kay, B Marwick, ... Science 365 (6456), 897-902, 2019 | 561 | 2019 |
| Contextualizing early urbanization: Settlement cores, early states and agro-pastoral strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the fourth and third millennia BC TJ Wilkinson, G Philip, J Bradbury, R Dunford, D Donoghue, N Galiatsatos, ... Journal of World Prehistory 27, 43-109, 2014 | 185 | 2014 |
| Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies A Palmisano, D Lawrence, MW De Gruchy, A Bevan, S Shennan Quaternary Science Reviews 252, 106739, 2021 | 110 | 2021 |
| Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: A first approximation D Lawrence, G Philip, H Hunt, L Snape-Kennedy, TJ Wilkinson PloS one 11 (3), e0152563, 2016 | 98 | 2016 |
| Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization KD Morrison, E Hammer, O Boles, M Madella, N Whitehouse, MJ Gaillard, ... PloS one 16 (4), e0246662, 2021 | 79 | 2021 |
| Collapse and continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2 kya Rapid Climate … D Lawrence, A Palmisano, MW de Gruchy PloS one 16 (1), e0244871, 2021 | 71 | 2021 |
| Hubs and upstarts: pathways to urbanism in the northern Fertile Crescent D Lawrence, TJ Wilkinson Antiquity 89 (344), 328-344, 2015 | 68 | 2015 |
| Impacts of long term climate change during the collapse of the Akkadian Empire E Cookson, DJ Hill, D Lawrence Journal of Archaeological Science 106, 1-9, 2019 | 66 | 2019 |
| Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series A Garcia‐Molsosa, HA Orengo, D Lawrence, G Philip, K Hopper, ... Archaeological Prospection 28 (2), 187-199, 2021 | 64 | 2021 |
| Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age landscapes of settlement and mobility in the Middle Euphrates: a reassessment TJ Wilkinson, N Galiatsatos, D Lawrence, A Ricci, R Dunford, G Philip Levant 44 (2), 139-185, 2012 | 57 | 2012 |
| Wealth inequality in the ancient Near East: a preliminary assessment using Gini coefficients and household size P Basri, D Lawrence Cambridge archaeological journal 30 (4), 689-704, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| Regional power and local ecologies: Accumulated population trends and human impacts in the northern Fertile Crescent D Lawrence, G Philip, K Wilkinson, JP Buylaert, AS Murray, W Thompson, ... Quaternary International 437, 60-81, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| The northern and western borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: contextualising the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian frontier D Lawrence, TJ Wilkinson Sasanian Persia: between Rome and the steppes of Eurasia, 99-125, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Chronology, uncertainty and GIS: a methodology for characterising and understanding landscapes of the ancient Near East D Lawrence, J Bradbury, R Dunford eTopoi 3, 353, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| Early urbanism in the northern Fertile Crescent: a comparison of regional settlement trajectories and millennial landscape change D Lawrence Durham University, 2012 | 26* | 2012 |
| Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée F Silva, F Coward, K Davies, S Elliott, E Jenkins, AC Newton, P Riris, ... Sustainability 14 (16), 10234, 2022 | 23* | 2022 |
| Climate change and early urbanism in Southwest Asia: A review D Lawrence, G Philip, MW de Gruchy Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 13 (1), e741, 2022 | 22 | 2022 |
| Human mobility and early sedentism: the Late Neolithic landscape of southern Azerbaijan A Ricci, MB D'Anna, D Lawrence, B Helwing, T Aliyev antiquity 92 (366), 1445-1461, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| A systematic approach for studying the persistence of settlements in the past KA Crawford, AC Huster, MA Peeples, N Gauthier, ME Smith, J Lobo, ... Antiquity 97 (391), 213-230, 2023 | 15 | 2023 |
| Long-term settlement trends in the Birecik-Carchemish Sectors D Lawrence, A Ricci Carchemish in Context: The Land of Carchemish Project, 38-67, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
