Publications & manuscripts
Selected scientific work
Research on Nile Delta palaeoecology, geoarchaeology, agriculture, waterways and social–ecological change.
Socio-ecological resilience propagated unevenly through Ancient Egypt state in the Nile DeltaCommunications Earth & Environment · in review
Not by Bread Alone: Contrasting Nile Delta trajectories to Agriculture at the dawn of ancient EgyptQuaternary Science Reviews · in press
Feeding the pyramid builders: Early agriculture at Giza in EgyptQuaternary Science Reviews 312, 108172 · 2023
Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCEProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(37), e2202530119 · 2022
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, EgyptJournal of Archaeological Science 136, 105498 · 2021
The construction of the Giza pyramids chronicled by human copper contaminationGeology · 2024
The pyramid builders' waterways: Reconstructing the ancient topography of Khufu's Pharaonic Harbour at Giza, EgyptJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports 53, 104303 · 2024
On the long and winding road: unravelling the late emergence of Neolithic agriculture in the Nile DeltaQuaternary Science Reviews 359, 109368 · 2025
Early Middle Holocene climatic and environmental changes in the Nile Delta and implications for early agricultureJournal of Lake Sciences 30(3), 857–864 · 2018