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Dan Lawrence
Dan Lawrence is Professor of Southwest Asian Archaeology at Durham University, and director of the Durham Archaeology Informatics Lab. He has recently completed a five-year project investigating the relationship between complex societies and climate change over the last 10,000 years in Southwest Asia. Other research interests include early urbanism and the emergence of inequality, and work to enhance heritage management capacity in countries across the Middle East.
Courses
Explore how people and societies, from the ancient world to the 20th century, have understood and coped with crises caused by climatic events or climate change, using evidence from archaeology and economic, social and oral history.