Nick Drake

Biographic Data

ID1031495
NAMENick Drake
GIVEN NAMESNick
FAMILY NAMEDrake
SIGNATUREDRAKE N
AFFILIATIONSKing's College London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS250
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX8

  • Before the Holocene humid period

    Open AccessMaria Guagnin, Ceri Shipton et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2023Cited by: 1References: 11

  • Holocene resource exploitation along the Nile

    Open AccessJ Dunne, Maciej Jórdeczka et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2021Cited by: 7References: 30

    The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley of Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy. Here, for the first time, archaeozoological, palaeobotanical, phytolith and dental calculus studies are combined with lipid residue analysis of around 100 pottery fragments and comparative analysis of faunal remains a…

  • A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

    Open AccessMathew Stewart, Julien Louys et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2020

    Over the past decade, a growing interest has developed on the archaeology, palaeontology, and palaeoenvironments of the Arabian Peninsula. It is now clear that hominins repeatedly dispersed into Arabia, notably during pluvial interglacial periods when much of the peninsula was characterised by a semiarid grassland environment. During the intervening glacial phases, however, grasslands were replaced with arid and hyperarid deserts. These millennia…

  • A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia – Addendum

    Open AccessMathew Stewart, Julien Louys et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2020

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  • Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia

    Open AccessH S Groucutt, Paul S Breeze et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2020Cited by: 14References: 33

    Between 10 and six thousand years ago the Arabian Peninsula saw the most recent of the 'Green Arabia' periods, when increased rainfall transformed this generally arid region. The transition to the Neolithic in Arabia occurred during this period of climatic amelioration. Various forms of stone structures are abundant in northern Arabia, and it has been speculated that some of these dated to the Neolithic, but there has been little research on thei…

  • Pots, plants and animals

    Open AccessJ Dunne, Katie Manning et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2019Cited by: 9References: 6

  • Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

    Open AccessH S Groucutt, Rainer Grün et al.ARTICLENature Ecology & Evolution2018

  • Neolithic pastoralism in marginal environments during the Holocene Humid Period, northern Saudi Arabia

    Open AccessEleanor M L Scerri, Maria Guagnin et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2018Cited by: 6References: 32

    The origins of agriculture in South-west Asia is a topic of continued archaeological debate. Of particular interest is how agricultural populations and practices spread inter-regionally. Was the Arabian Neolithic, for example, spread through the movement of pastoral groups, or did ideas perhaps develop independently? Here, the authors report on recent excavations at Alshabah, one of the first Neolithic sites discovered in Northern Arabia. The sit…

  • Reconceptualising the palaeozoogeography of the Sahara and the dispersal of early modern humans

    Open AccessNick A Drake, Nick Drake et al.CHAPTERHuman Dispersal and Species…2017

    Genetic and archaeological lines of evidence both suggest that Homo sapiens dispersed out of Africa sometime between 130 and 50 ka, and that a likely route was across the ‘green Sahara’. However, there is an absence of definitive evidence for trans-Sahara dispersal even though some animal species appear to have done so. To further our understanding of this dispersal, we present a model that considers the different ways humans can affect animal di…

  • Prehistory and palaeoenvironments of the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

    Open AccessPaul S Breeze, H S Groucutt et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2017Cited by: 7References: 20

  • Middle and Late Pleistocene mammal fossils of Arabia and surrounding regions

    Open AccessMathew Stewart, Julien Louys et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2017Cited by: 4References: 90

  • Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC

    Open AccessJoanne Clarke, Nicholas Brooks et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews2016

    This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th millennium (∼4500–3000) BC. Twenty terrestrial and 20 marine climate proxies are used to identify long-term trends in humidity involving transitions from humid to arid conditions and vice versa. The f…

  • Climate Change and Modern Human Occupation of the Sahara from MIS 6-2

    Open AccessNick Drake, Paul S Breeze et al.CHAPTERAfrica from MIS 6-22016

  • Patterns of Hominin Occupation and Cultural Diversity Across the Gebel Akhdar of Northern Libya Over the Last ~200 kyr

    Open AccessSacha Jones, Annita Antoniadou et al.CHAPTERAfrica from MIS 6-22016

  • The Middle Palaeolithic of the Nejd, Saudi Arabia

    H S Groucutt, Paul S Breeze et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2016Cited by: 11References: 22

    The Pleistocene archaeological record of the Arabian Peninsula is increasingly recognized as being of great importance for resolving some of the major debates in hominin evolutionary studies. Though there has been an acceleration in the rate of fieldwork and discovery of archaeological sites in recent years, little is known about hominin occupations in the Pleistocene over vast areas of Arabia. Here we report on the identification of five new Mid…

  • Rock art imagery as a proxy for Holocene environmental change

    Open AccessMaria Guagnin, Richard P Jennings et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2016Cited by: 18References: 8

    The animal species depicted in the rock art of Shuwaymis, Saudi Arabia, provide a record of Holocene climatic changes, as seen by the engravers. Of 1903 animal engravings, 1514 contained sufficient detail to allow identification with confidence. In addition, the stratigraphy of the engravings and the depiction of domesticates provide a broad chronological framework that allows a division into images created during the Holocene humid phase and ani…

  • Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

    Open AccessH S Groucutt, Michael D Petraglia et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2015

    Current fossil, genetic, and archeological data indicate that Homo sapiens originated in Africa in the late Middle Pleistocene. By the end of the Late Pleistocene, our species was distributed across every continent except Antarctica, setting the foundations for the subsequent demographic and cultural changes of the Holocene. The intervening processes remain intensely debated and a key theme in hominin evolutionary studies. We review archeological…

  • Multi-scale Acheulean landscape survey in the Arabian Desert

    Open AccessRichard P Jennings, Ceri Shipton et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2015Cited by: 27References: 9

  • Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa

    Open AccessEleanor M L Scerri, Nick A Drake et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Science Reviews2014

  • High-resolution geospatial surveying techniques provide new insights into rock-art landscapes at Shuwaymis, Saudi Arabia

    Open AccessRichard P Jennings, Ash Parton et al.ARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2014Cited by: 6References: 4

    Many parts of the Arabian Peninsula contain rock art that has received minimal archaeological attention or has not yet been thoroughly surveyed. In 2001 an extensive rock-art complex called Shuwaymis, Ha'il Province, Saudi Arabia was brought to the attention of the Saudi General Commission for Tourism and Antiquities. This paper sets out the results of the first high-resolution geospatial mapping and recording of rock art at this remote site. The…

  • Palaeoclimate in the Saharan and Arabian Deserts during the Middle Palaeolithic and the potential for hominin dispersals

    Open AccessNick A Drake, Nick Drake et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2012Cited by: 65References: 15

  • Geoarchaeological patterns in the pre-desert and desert ecozones of northern Cyrenaica

    Open AccessSacha Jones, Lucy Farr et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2011Cited by: 5References: 10

    Geoarchaeological surveys were conducted in northern Cyrenaica in 2009 as part of the TRANS-NAP project. A major objective of the project is to understand the relationship between regional environmental changes and human occupation patterns in northern Cyrenaica over approximately the past 200,000 years. This paper focuses on the results of surveys of the pre-desert and desert ecological zones in the south of the project's study region. The type,…

  • Acheulean Landscapes and Large Cutting Tools Assemblages in the Arabian peninsula

    Michael D Petraglia, Nick Drake et al.CHAPTER2010

  • Phytoliths as indicators of grassland dynamics during the Holocene from lake sediments in the Ubari sand sea, Fazzan Basin, Libya

    Open AccessAdrian G Parker, Adrian Parker et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2008

    This paper presents the first study of phytoliths from the Saharan region. Phytolith analysis shows the potential of reconstructing grassland dynamics during the Holocene, refining our knowledge of palaeoecosystems in the Ubari sand sea, Libya. The lake sediments studied range in age between 3,273–9,440 cal. BP. Tree cover was very low around 3,273–3,436 cal. BP and 6,678–6,796 cal. BP, and the landscape was dominated by C4 grasslands around 6,67…

  • Desert Migrations

    Open AccessDavid Mattingly, M M Lahr et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies2007Cited by: 32References: 6

    The Desert Migrations Project is a new interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional collaborative project between the Society for Libyan Studies and the Department of Antiquities. The geographical focus of the study is the Fazzan region of southwest Libya and in thematic terms we aim to address the theme of migration in the broadest sense, encompassing the movement of people, ideas/knowledge and material culture into and out of Fazzan, along with evid…