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Whitehead, P.G., Smith, S.J., Wade, A.j., Mithen, S.J., Finlayson, B.L., Sellwood, B., Valdes,P.J. Modelling of hydrology and potential population levels at Bronze Age Jawa, Northern Jordan: a Monte Carlo approach to cope with uncertainty. Journal of Archaeological Science. May 2007.

Black, E. (2006) The impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Middle East Rainfall Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change and the Middle East Past, Present and Future pages 39-45

Diro, G.T., D.I.F. Grimes, E.Black and A. O'Neill Evaluation of reanalysis rainfall estimates over Ethiopia submitted to International Journal of Climatology

Lovell, J. and A. Bradley, Settlement patterns and altitude in the Southern Levant: GIS analysis of the Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age transition submitted to Journal of Field Archaeology

Jenkins, E. L., Jamjoum, K., Nuimat. S., Finlayson. B., Nortcliff. S., & Mithen. S. J. Further investigations into phytoliths as indicators of water availability:an outline of on-going crop growing experiments and their implications for phytolith research. Proceedings of the 6th International Meeting on Phytolith Research. Quaternary International

Whitehead, P.G., S.J. Smith, A.J. Wade, S.J.Mithen, B.L.Finlayson, and B.Sellwood Modelling of Hydrology and Population levels at Bronze Age Jawa: A Monte-Carlo approach to cope with uncertainty (submitted to Journal of Archaeological Science and published in preliminary form as a WLC working paper)

Robinson, S.A., Black, S., Sellwood, B. W. and Valdes, P.J. (2006). A review of palaeoclimates in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5,000 years BP: setting the environmental background for the evolution of human civilization. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 1517-1541.

Newsletter articles

Black, E. (2006) Present day climate variability in the Middle East: some results from the Water, Life and Civilisation climate modelling sub-project CBRL Newsletter pages 71-72

Black, E. (2006) Climate variability in the Middle East Water, Life and Civilisation Newsletter pages 3-4 (Download)

Carr (2006) Wasterwater reuse for irrigation in Jordan Water, Life and Civilisation Newsletter page 2 (Download)

Jenkins, E. (2006) Progress with crop growing for phytolith analysis Water, Life and Civilisation Newsletter page 6 (Download)

Rambeau (2006) Palaeoenvironmental studies: a multi-proxy reconstruction of the sedimentological history of Jordan and adjacent areas (~20,000 BCE - present day) Water, Life and Civilisation Newsletter (Download)

Smith, S.J. (2006) Changing availability of water resources in Wadi Faynan: implications for understanding human activity during the Holocene Water, Life and Civilisation Newsletter pages 7-8 (Download)

Sandias, M. (2006) Water and food resources use in Jordan by stable isotope analysis of human and faunal skeletal remains Water, Life and Civilisation Newsletter pages 10-11 (Download)

Wade (2006) Does climate influence population and settlement? A case study of Wadi Faynan Water, Life and Civilisation Newsletter page 5 (Download)