Professor Nick Drake Professor Nick Drake Academics Supervisors Professor of Physical Geography Research subject areas Environment Geography Contact details +44 (0)20 7848 2798 nick.drake@kcl.ac.uk
Before the Holocene humid period: Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations on the southern edge of the Nefud desert Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran Preservation of plant-wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies Habitat fragmentation and the sporadic spread of pastoralism in the mid-Holocene Sahara Dust sources in Westernmost Asia have a different geochemical fingerprint to those in the Sahara Wild Food: Plants, Fish and Small Animals on the Menu for Early Holocene Populations at al-Khiday, Central Sudan Iron from coal combustion particles dissolves much faster than mineral dust under simulated atmospheric acidic conditions Interannual Variability in the Source Location of North African Dust Transported to the Amazon Sedimentary and Geomorphic evidence of Saharan megalakes: a synthesis Holocene resource exploitation along the Nile: diet and subsistence strategies of Mesolithic and Neolithic societies at Khor Shambat 1, Sudan New insights into the late Middle Stone Age occupation of Oued el Akarit, southern Tunisia Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia Three North African dust source areas and their geochemical fingerprint Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’ Pots, plants and animals: Broad-spectrum subsistence strategies in the Early Neolithic of the Moroccan Rif region Taphonomic and zooarchaeological investigations at the middle Pleistocene site of Ti's al Ghadah, western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia Evaluating the relative importance of northern African mineral dust sources using remote sensing The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula Neolithic pastoralism in marginal environments during the Holocene Humid Period, northern Saudi Arabia Reconstructing palaeoclimate and hydrological fluctuations in the Fezzan Basin (southern Libya) since 130 ka: A catchment-based approach Patterns of Hominin occupation and cultural diversity across the Gebel Akhdar of Northern Libya over the last ~200 kyr Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia Reconceptualising the palaeozoogeography of the sahara and the dispersal of early modern humans Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter? Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago Middle and Late Pleistocene mammal fossils of Arabia and surrounding regions: Implications for biogeography and hominin dispersals Prehistory and palaeoenvironments of the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia Miocene humid intervals and establishment of drainage networks by 23 Ma in the Central Sahara, Southern Libya Human occupation of the northern Arabian interior during early Marine Isotope Stage 3 Rock art imagery as a proxy for Holocene environmental change: A view from Shuwaymis, NW Saudi Arabia Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ∼250–70,000 years ago The middle palaeolithic of the Nejd, Saudi Arabia Termination of the African Humid Period: Insights from Wadi Shati, Libya: The African Quaternary: environments, ecology and humans Inaugural AFQUA conference Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: Implications for biogeography and palaeoecology Climate Change and Modern Human Occupation of the Saharan from MIS Stage Six to Two Patterns of Hominin Occupation and Cultural Diversity Across the Gebel Akhdar of Northern Libya Over the Last ~200 kyr Large Flake Acheulean in the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia Holocene and Middle Stone Age Archaeology in Central Sudan: The Wadi Muqadam Geoarchaeological Survey Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the 'long' 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa Multi-scale Acheulean landscape survey in the Arabian Desert Spatial Modelling and Scaling Issues The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing Arabian palaeohydrology and identifying archaeological sites West African monsoon dynamics inferred from abrupt fluctuations of Lake Mega-Chad View all publications
1 September 2021 New research reveals how repeated climate change allowed early humans to move into the Arabian Peninsula Satellite mapping analyses have located ancient lake deposits with archaeology, which show how…