D J Nash
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 7490 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D J Nash |
| NOMBRES | D J |
| APELLIDO | Nash |
| FIRMA | NASH D J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7641-5857 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 170 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1957 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Arithmetic methods for exploring archaeological source provenance using geochemistry – A reply to Pearce et al.
In this reply, we respond to the comment by Pearce et al. regarding our recently proposed arithmetic method for assessing geochemical similarity between lithic artefacts and potential source outcrops. We thank the authors for their critique, which highlights three opportunities for methodological refinement. We agree that issues relating to analytical precision and numerical rounding, certified reference material selection, and the weighting of g…
Comment on
In a recent paper in this journal (Hancock et al. (2024) Stonehenge revisited: A geochemical approach to interpreting the geographical source of sarsen stone #58. Archaeometry https://www.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12999 ), Hancock and colleagues present a reanalysis of the geochemical dataset used to identify the likely source for the majority of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge as West Woods, Wiltshire, UK. This comment discusses the analytical app…
Novel approaches for enhanced visualisation and recognition of rock carvings at Stonehenge
Difference of Gaussians and pseudo-depth mapping reveal new carvings at Stonehenge. • 4 new, 10 potential, and 9 alternatives of carvings were found on Stone 53. • 3-D classifier MeshNet achieves 90.7 % accuracy on carving recognition tasks. • Methods reveal overlapping carvings, contradicting prevailing knowledge. • This could imply a more complex pattern of mark-making at Stonehenge than presumed. The sarsen uprights at Stonehenge feature the l…
Defining similarity
Geochemical analysis has long been a key tool in studies attempting to determine the source provenance of lithic artefacts. Cogenetic linkages between outcrop sources and artefacts have been variously argued through visual, statistical and arithmetic interrogations of geochemical data. However, such approaches can overlook the petrological significance of particular elements and suggest artefact-outcrop ‘matches’ that may not pass geological scru…
A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836–2022)
In April 2022, flooding and associated geohazards caused major loss of life and extensive damage in the greater Durban region and large areas of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) coastal zone. Heavy rainfall that triggered the flooding and mass movement events was reported in national and international media as having ‘smashed weather records’. However, no systematic and up-to-date flood record exists for KZN to allow the April 2022 floods to be viewed wit…
Earliest Movement of Sarsen Into the Stonehenge Landscape
This paper presents the results of new research on two sarsen stones, known as the Cuckoo Stone and Tor Stone, both former standing stones that lie on opposite banks of the River Avon and straddle the eastern border of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site. Geochemical analysis indicates that both stones were probably transported to their present site from West Woods on the Marlborough Downs in north Wiltshire, a source that likely also …
Local and exotic sources of sarsen debitage at Stonehenge revealed by geochemical provenancing
The application of novel geochemical provenancing techniques has changed our understanding of the construction of Stonehenge, by identifying West Woods on the Marlborough Downs as the likely source area for the majority of the extant sarsen megaliths at the monument. In this study, we apply the same techniques to saccharoid sarsen fragments from three excavations within and outwith the main Sarsen Circle to expand our understanding of the provena…
“But what silence! No more gazelles…”
Negotiating Leadership in Interdisciplinary Co-Productive Research
In the absence of empirical and conceptual considerations of the negotiation of leadership in teams doing community-based research, this article adds to the leadership literature by offering a critical reflection on positioning and collaborative teams in the context of one interdisciplinary, co-productive, cross-generational and international research project. The project focused on youth and community resilience to drought in South Africa. Fourt…
Heat treatment of Kalahari and Cape silcretes
Climate, Conflict and Society
Changing climates affect human societies differently depending on societal structures, cultural perceptions and their relative vulnerability and resilience. In this study, we explore the complex relationship between climate, conflict and society in nineteenth century Zululand. The paper first reviews current debates surrounding the links between climatic change, societal transformation and the rise of the Zulu Kingdom from the late-eighteenth to …
“But what silence! No more gazelles…”
Climate, history, society over the last millennium in southeast Africa
Climate variability has been causally linked to the transformation of society in pre‐industrial southeast Africa. A growing critique, however, challenges the simplicity of ideas that identify climate as an agent of past societal change; arguing instead that the value of historical climate–society research lies in understanding human vulnerability and resilience, as well as how past societies framed, responded and adapted to climatic phenomena. We…
Going the distance
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia
Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years
A growing number of proxy, historical and instrumental data sets are now available from continental Africa through which past variations in temperature can be assessed. This paper, co-authored by members of the PAGES Africa2k Working Group, synthesises published material to produce a record of temperature variability for Africa as a whole spanning the last 2000 years. The paper focuses on temperature variability during the ‘Medieval Climate Anoma…
Provenancing of silcrete raw materials indicates long-distance transport to Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, during the Middle Stone Age
Provenancing silcrete in the Cape coastal zone
‘A good site for health’
Throughout much of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the tropics and subtropics were constructed as a relatively homogenous realm. The supposed ‘pathological potency’ of these regions was assumed to render them particularly hazardous for European constitutions relative to ‘temperate’ locations. The interior of Africa represented one such apparently pestilential place. This paper examines how the experiences of nineteenth‐century…
Happy is the bride the rain falls on’
European ‘acclimatization’ represented a central geographical and medical question throughout the nineteenth century. Prolonged residences by Europeans in the tropics were thought to result in physical and moral deterioration, and women were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Among the first British women to venture into the tropics and sub‐tropics, missionary women played an important role in the articulation of acclimatization debates. In t…
Kalahari valley calcretes
Missionaries and Morals
The letters, personal papers, and journals written by British missionaries based at mission stations within and around the Kalahari region of central southern Africa in the nineteenth century provide an invaluable insight into time- and place-specific interactions with local cultures and environments. This article employs a range of unpublished and published missionary correspondence and travelogues to examine two key aspects regarding the concep…
Drought, desiccation and discourse
This paper examines the role that representatives of the London Missionary Society in central southern Africa during the nineteenth century may have played in the development of geographical debates concerning the long‐term desiccation of the African continent. Observations on climate included within missionary documents are used to reconstruct a chronology of intra‐decadal climatic variability for the period 1815–1900. This reveals six drought p…
Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 2
Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 1
(2000). Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 1: Practicalities and pitfalls. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 139-149
Provenancing of silcrete raw materials indicates long-distance transport to Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, during the Middle Stone Age
Going the distance
Drought, desiccation and discourse
This paper examines the role that representatives of the London Missionary Society in central southern Africa during the nineteenth century may have played in the development of geographical debates concerning the long‐term desiccation of the African continent. Observations on climate included within missionary documents are used to reconstruct a chronology of intra‐decadal climatic variability for the period 1815–1900. This reveals six drought p…
Provenancing silcrete in the Cape coastal zone
Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years
A growing number of proxy, historical and instrumental data sets are now available from continental Africa through which past variations in temperature can be assessed. This paper, co-authored by members of the PAGES Africa2k Working Group, synthesises published material to produce a record of temperature variability for Africa as a whole spanning the last 2000 years. The paper focuses on temperature variability during the ‘Medieval Climate Anoma…
Happy is the bride the rain falls on’
European ‘acclimatization’ represented a central geographical and medical question throughout the nineteenth century. Prolonged residences by Europeans in the tropics were thought to result in physical and moral deterioration, and women were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Among the first British women to venture into the tropics and sub‐tropics, missionary women played an important role in the articulation of acclimatization debates. In t…
Missionaries and Morals
The letters, personal papers, and journals written by British missionaries based at mission stations within and around the Kalahari region of central southern Africa in the nineteenth century provide an invaluable insight into time- and place-specific interactions with local cultures and environments. This article employs a range of unpublished and published missionary correspondence and travelogues to examine two key aspects regarding the concep…
Heat treatment of Kalahari and Cape silcretes
Local and exotic sources of sarsen debitage at Stonehenge revealed by geochemical provenancing
The application of novel geochemical provenancing techniques has changed our understanding of the construction of Stonehenge, by identifying West Woods on the Marlborough Downs as the likely source area for the majority of the extant sarsen megaliths at the monument. In this study, we apply the same techniques to saccharoid sarsen fragments from three excavations within and outwith the main Sarsen Circle to expand our understanding of the provena…
Climate, Conflict and Society
Changing climates affect human societies differently depending on societal structures, cultural perceptions and their relative vulnerability and resilience. In this study, we explore the complex relationship between climate, conflict and society in nineteenth century Zululand. The paper first reviews current debates surrounding the links between climatic change, societal transformation and the rise of the Zulu Kingdom from the late-eighteenth to …
Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 1
(2000). Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 1: Practicalities and pitfalls. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 139-149
On the Dry Valleys of the Kalahari
Dry 'fossil' valleys (mekgacha) are an important landscape feature in the semi-arid to arid Kalahari Desert of central southern Africa. The majority of valleys do not contain flow, except in their headwater regions, but may contain pools of water on a seasonal basis. As a result, they are frequently mentioned in historical accounts of the region recorded by European travellers, and from these reports it is possible to assemble a picture of hydrol…
Earliest Movement of Sarsen Into the Stonehenge Landscape
This paper presents the results of new research on two sarsen stones, known as the Cuckoo Stone and Tor Stone, both former standing stones that lie on opposite banks of the River Avon and straddle the eastern border of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site. Geochemical analysis indicates that both stones were probably transported to their present site from West Woods on the Marlborough Downs in north Wiltshire, a source that likely also …
Climate, history, society over the last millennium in southeast Africa
Climate variability has been causally linked to the transformation of society in pre‐industrial southeast Africa. A growing critique, however, challenges the simplicity of ideas that identify climate as an agent of past societal change; arguing instead that the value of historical climate–society research lies in understanding human vulnerability and resilience, as well as how past societies framed, responded and adapted to climatic phenomena. We…
World Atlas of Desertification
The Socialization of an Artist
Journal Article The Socialization of an Artist: The American Composer Get access Dennison J. Nash Dennison J. Nash University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 35, Issue 4, May 1957, Pages 307–313, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573318 Published: 01 May 1957
William Morris and 'News from Nowhere
Introduction - Utopia today, S.Coleman biographical essay - who was William Morris?, P.O'Sullivan a synopsis of News from Nowhere, C.Slapper the feast's beginning - Nowhere and the Utopian tradition, C.Hampton how the change came - revolution in Nowhere, J.Crump how things are managed - human nature in Nowhere, S.Coleman concerning love - News from Nowhere & Gender, J.Marsh the obstinate refusers - work in News from Nowhere, R.Watkinson an old ho…
On the Dry Valleys of the Kalahari
Dry 'fossil' valleys (mekgacha) are an important landscape feature in the semi-arid to arid Kalahari Desert of central southern Africa. The majority of valleys do not contain flow, except in their headwater regions, but may contain pools of water on a seasonal basis. As a result, they are frequently mentioned in historical accounts of the region recorded by European travellers, and from these reports it is possible to assemble a picture of hydrol…
World Atlas of Desertification
Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 2
Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 1
(2000). Doing Independent Overseas Fieldwork 1: Practicalities and pitfalls. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 139-149
Missionaries and Morals
The letters, personal papers, and journals written by British missionaries based at mission stations within and around the Kalahari region of central southern Africa in the nineteenth century provide an invaluable insight into time- and place-specific interactions with local cultures and environments. This article employs a range of unpublished and published missionary correspondence and travelogues to examine two key aspects regarding the concep…
Drought, desiccation and discourse
This paper examines the role that representatives of the London Missionary Society in central southern Africa during the nineteenth century may have played in the development of geographical debates concerning the long‐term desiccation of the African continent. Observations on climate included within missionary documents are used to reconstruct a chronology of intra‐decadal climatic variability for the period 1815–1900. This reveals six drought p…
Kalahari valley calcretes
Happy is the bride the rain falls on’
European ‘acclimatization’ represented a central geographical and medical question throughout the nineteenth century. Prolonged residences by Europeans in the tropics were thought to result in physical and moral deterioration, and women were thought to be particularly vulnerable. Among the first British women to venture into the tropics and sub‐tropics, missionary women played an important role in the articulation of acclimatization debates. In t…
‘A good site for health’
Throughout much of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the tropics and subtropics were constructed as a relatively homogenous realm. The supposed ‘pathological potency’ of these regions was assumed to render them particularly hazardous for European constitutions relative to ‘temperate’ locations. The interior of Africa represented one such apparently pestilential place. This paper examines how the experiences of nineteenth‐century…
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia
Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years
A growing number of proxy, historical and instrumental data sets are now available from continental Africa through which past variations in temperature can be assessed. This paper, co-authored by members of the PAGES Africa2k Working Group, synthesises published material to produce a record of temperature variability for Africa as a whole spanning the last 2000 years. The paper focuses on temperature variability during the ‘Medieval Climate Anoma…
Provenancing of silcrete raw materials indicates long-distance transport to Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, during the Middle Stone Age
Provenancing silcrete in the Cape coastal zone
“But what silence! No more gazelles…”
Climate, history, society over the last millennium in southeast Africa
Climate variability has been causally linked to the transformation of society in pre‐industrial southeast Africa. A growing critique, however, challenges the simplicity of ideas that identify climate as an agent of past societal change; arguing instead that the value of historical climate–society research lies in understanding human vulnerability and resilience, as well as how past societies framed, responded and adapted to climatic phenomena. We…
Going the distance
Climate, Conflict and Society
Changing climates affect human societies differently depending on societal structures, cultural perceptions and their relative vulnerability and resilience. In this study, we explore the complex relationship between climate, conflict and society in nineteenth century Zululand. The paper first reviews current debates surrounding the links between climatic change, societal transformation and the rise of the Zulu Kingdom from the late-eighteenth to …
Heat treatment of Kalahari and Cape silcretes
“But what silence! No more gazelles…”
Negotiating Leadership in Interdisciplinary Co-Productive Research
In the absence of empirical and conceptual considerations of the negotiation of leadership in teams doing community-based research, this article adds to the leadership literature by offering a critical reflection on positioning and collaborative teams in the context of one interdisciplinary, co-productive, cross-generational and international research project. The project focused on youth and community resilience to drought in South Africa. Fourt…
A new flood chronology for KwaZulu-Natal (1836–2022)
In April 2022, flooding and associated geohazards caused major loss of life and extensive damage in the greater Durban region and large areas of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) coastal zone. Heavy rainfall that triggered the flooding and mass movement events was reported in national and international media as having ‘smashed weather records’. However, no systematic and up-to-date flood record exists for KZN to allow the April 2022 floods to be viewed wit…
Earliest Movement of Sarsen Into the Stonehenge Landscape
This paper presents the results of new research on two sarsen stones, known as the Cuckoo Stone and Tor Stone, both former standing stones that lie on opposite banks of the River Avon and straddle the eastern border of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site. Geochemical analysis indicates that both stones were probably transported to their present site from West Woods on the Marlborough Downs in north Wiltshire, a source that likely also …
Local and exotic sources of sarsen debitage at Stonehenge revealed by geochemical provenancing
The application of novel geochemical provenancing techniques has changed our understanding of the construction of Stonehenge, by identifying West Woods on the Marlborough Downs as the likely source area for the majority of the extant sarsen megaliths at the monument. In this study, we apply the same techniques to saccharoid sarsen fragments from three excavations within and outwith the main Sarsen Circle to expand our understanding of the provena…
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