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• 2020

  Historical climatology in Africa: A state of the art

  Nash, D. & Hannaford, M., 10 Nov 2020, In: PAGES News. 28, 2, p. 42-43 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Climatology
  • Rainfall
  • extreme event
  • climatology
  • Temperature

• Negotiating Leadership in Interdisciplinary Co-Productive Research: A Case Study of An International Community-Based Project Between Collaborators From South Africa and the United Kingdom

  Hart, A., Biggs, S., Scott-Bottoms, S., Buttery, L., Dennis, S., Duncan, S., Ebersöhn, L., Flegg, M., Kelso, C., Khaile, N. M., Mampane, M. R., Mampane, N. S., Nash, D., Ngoma, R. & Theron, L., 1 Oct 2020, In: SAGE Open. 10, 4, p. 1-13 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Republic of South Africa
  • leadership
  • drought
  • resilience
  • research project

• Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge

  Nash, D., Ciborowski, J., Ullyott, S., Parker Pearson, M., Darvill, T., Greaney, S., Maniatis, G. & Whitaker, K., 29 Jul 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 31, p. 1-8 8 p., eabc0133.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Megaliths
  • Stonehenge
  • monument
  • Wood
  • stone

• Reassessing southern African silcrete geochemistry: Implications for silcrete origin and sourcing of silcrete artefacts

  Webb, J. & Nash, D., 10 Aug 2020, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 45, 13, p. 3396-3413 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Geochemistry
  • Kalahari
  • silcrete
  • Sourcing
  • Weathering

• “But what silence! No more gazelles…”: Occurrence and extinction of fauna in Lesotho, southern Africa, since the late Pleistocene

  Grab, S. & Nash, D., 28 Apr 2020, In: Quaternary International.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Lesotho
  • Southern Africa
  • extinction
  • fauna
  • Pleistocene
• 2019

  Geomorphic and hydrological controls on groundwater dolocrete formation in the semi‐arid Hamersley Basin, northwest Australia

  Mather, C., Nash, D., Dogramaci, S., Grierson, P. & Skrzypek, G., 20 Jul 2019, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 44, 14, p. 2752-2770 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • dolomite
  • groundwater
  • Water tables
  • basin
  • environmental factors

• Heat treatment of Kalahari and Cape silcretes: impacts upon silcrete chemistry and implications for geochemical provenancing

  Nash, D., Coulson, S. & Schmidt, P., 29 Oct 2019, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 11, 12, p. 6865-6874 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Provenancing
  • Kalahari
  • Heat Treatment
  • heat
  • chemistry

• Narratives of nineteenth century drought in southern Africa in different historical source types

  Nash, D., Klein, J., Endfield, G. H., Pribyl, K., Adamson, G. & Grab, S., 2 Jan 2019, In: Climatic Change. 152, 3-4, p. 467-485 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Southern Africa
  • drought
  • Drought
  • nineteenth century
  • Historical Sources

• The role of drought in agrarian crisis and social change: the famine of the 1890s in south-eastern Africa

  Pribyl, K., Nash, D., Klein, J. & Endfield, G. H., 26 Nov 2019, In: Regional Environmental Change. 19, 8, p. 2683-2695 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Eastern Africa
  • famine
  • social change
  • Drought
  • Famine
• 2018

  Climate, conflict and society: Changing responses to weather extremes in nineteenth century Zululand

  Klein, J., Nash, D., Pribyl, K., Endfield, G. H. & Hannaford, M., 4 Jan 2018, In: Environment and History. 24, 3, p. 377-401 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • nineteenth century
  • climate
  • Oral tradition
  • social unrest
  • leader

• Climate history of Asia (excluding China)

  Nash, D., 1 Oct 2018, The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History. White, S., C. P. & Mauelshagen, F. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Palgrave, p. 203-211

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

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• Documentary data and the study of past droughts: A global state of the art

  Brázdil, R., Kiss, A., Luterbacher, J., Nash, D. & Řezníčková, L., 11 Dec 2018, In: Climate of the Past. 14, p. 1915-1960 46 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Drought
  • Documentary
  • state of the art
  • drought
  • Documentary Evidence

• Hydrodynamics and sedimentary processes in the main drainage channel of a large open coast managed realignment site

  Dale, J., Burgess, H., Nash, D. & Cundy, A., 16 Oct 2018, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 215, p. 100-111 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • managed realignment
  • Sediments
  • Suspended sediments
  • Coastal zones
  • Drainage

• Rainfall variability over Malawi during the late nineteenth century

  Nash, D., Pribyl, K., Endfield, G. H., Klein, J. & Adamson, G., 11 Jan 2018, In: International Journal of Climatology. 38, S1, p. e629-e642 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • nineteenth century
  • rainfall
  • drought
  • chronology
  • summer

• Sediment structure and physicochemical changes following tidal inundation at a large open coast managed realignment site

  Dale, J., Cundy, A., Spencer, K. L., Carr, S. J., Croudace, I., Burgess, H. & Nash, D., 28 Dec 2018, In: Science of the Total Environment. 660, p. 1419-1432 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • managed realignment
  • Sediments
  • Coastal zones
  • Land use
  • coast

• The evolution of embryonic creek systems in a recently inundated large open coast managed realignment site

  Dale, J., Burgess, H., Burnside, N., Kilkie, P., Nash, D. & Cundy, A., 2 May 2018, In: Anthropocene Coasts. 1, 1, p. 16-33 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • managed realignment
  • creek
  • coast
  • DGPS
  • intertidal environment
• 2017

  A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

  PAGES2k Consortium & Nash, D., 11 Jul 2017, In: Scientific Data. 4

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • speleothem
  • temperature
  • ocean basin
  • coral
  • screening

• Changes in precipitation over southern Africa during recent centuries

  Nash, D., 1 Feb 2017, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science : Oxford University Press.

  Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Southern Africa
  • rainfall
  • drought
  • summer
  • winter

• Heat treatment as a universal technical solution for silcrete use? A comparison between silcrete from the Western Cape (South Africa) and the Kalahari (Botswana)

  Schmidt, P., Nash, D., Coulson, S., Goden, M. & Awcock, G., 19 Jul 2017, In: PLoS ONE. 12, 7, p. 1-26 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • silcrete
  • Africa
  • Mesolithic
  • comparison
  • stone

• Late Quaternary coastal evolution and aeolian sedimentation in the tectonically-active southern Atacama Desert, Chile

  Nash, D., Bateman, M., Bullard, J. & Latorre, C., 21 Nov 2017, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 490, p. 546-562 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • coastal evolution
  • dune
  • desert
  • sedimentation
  • thin section

• The West Water Formation (Hualapai Plateau, Arizona, USA) as a calcrete-paleosol sequence, and its implications for the Paleogene-Neogene evolution of the southwestern Colorado Plateau

  Hill, C., Polyak, V., Nash, D., Asmerom, Y. & Provencio, P., 2 May 2017, In: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 479, p. 146-163 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • calcrete
  • formation water
  • paleosol
  • Paleogene
  • Neogene
• 2016

  African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

  Nash, D., De Cort, G., Chase, B., Verschuren, D., Nicholson, S., Shanahan, T., Asrat, A., Lezine, A-M. & Grab, S., 11 Nov 2016, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 154, p. 1-22 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • continent
  • Africa
  • resource availability
  • Little Ice Age
  • Medieval

• Climate, history, society over the last millennium in southeast Africa

  Hannaford, M. J. & Nash, D., 11 Mar 2016, In: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 7, 3, p. 370-392 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • climate
  • history
  • resilience
  • oral evidence
  • vulnerability

• Distinguishing pedogenic and non-pedogenic silcretes in the landscape and geological record

  Ullyott, J. & Nash, D., 3 Apr 2016, In: Proceedings of the Geologists Association.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • silcrete
  • geological record
  • duricrust
  • micromorphology
  • silicification

• Going the distance: Mapping mobility in the Kalahari Desert during the Middle Stone Age through multi-site geochemical provenancing of silcrete artefacts

  Nash, D., Coulson, S., Staurset, S., Ullyott, J., Babutsi, M. & Smith, M., 13 Jun 2016, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 96, p. 113-133 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • silcrete
  • Mesolithic
  • artifact
  • desert
  • raw material
• 2015

  Cap structures as diagnostic indicators of silcrete origin

  Ullyott, J., Nash, D. & Huggett, J., 15 Jul 2015, In: Sedimentary Geology. 325, p. 119-131 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • silcrete
  • indicator
  • silicification
  • micromorphology
  • fabric

• Drainage development, neotectonics and base-level change in the Kalahari Desert, southern Africa

  Nash, D. & Eckardt, F., 13 Apr 2015, In: South African Geographical Journal. 98, 2, p. 308-320 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • neotectonics
  • Southern Africa
  • desert
  • drainage
  • valley

• Of dunes, depressions and dry valleys: The arid landscapes of the Kalahari Desert

  Nash, D., 6 Mar 2015, Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa. Grab, S. & Knight, J. (eds.). Switzerland: Springer International, p. 129-137 9 p. (World Geomorphological Landscapes).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter

  • dune
  • desert
  • valley
  • geomorphological feature
  • semiarid region

• Seasonal rainfall variability in southeast Africa during the nineteenth century reconstructed from documentary sources

  Nash, D., Pribyl, K., Klein, J., Neukom, R., Endfield, G., Adamson, G. & Kniveton, D., 21 Nov 2015, In: Climatic Change. 134, 4, p. 605-619 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • documentary source
  • nineteenth century
  • Africa
  • rainfall
  • summer
• 2014

  Documentary reconstruction of monsoon rainfall variability over western India, 1781-1860

  Adamson, G. & Nash, D., 1 Feb 2014, In: Climate Dynamics. 42, 3-4, p. 749-769 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • monsoon
  • rainfall
  • El Nino-Southern Oscillation
  • drought
  • documentary source

• Multi-proxy summer and winter precipitation reconstruction for southern Africa over the last 200 years

  Neukom, R., Nash, D., Endfield, G. H., Grab, S., Grove, C., Kelso, C., Vogel, C. & Zinke, J., 1 May 2014, In: Climate Dynamics. 42, 9-10, p. 2713-2726 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Southern Africa
  • rainfall
  • winter
  • summer
  • sea surface temperature

• Recent advances in the historical climatology of the tropics and subtropics

  Nash, D. & Adamson, G., 1 Jan 2014, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 95, 1, p. 131-146 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • tropical cyclone
  • climatology
  • tropics
  • ship
  • document

• Tropical cyclone activity over Madagascar during the late nineteenth century

  Nash, D., Pribyl, K., Klein, J., Endfield, G., Kniveton, D. & Adamson, G., 13 Nov 2014, In: International Journal of Climatology. 35, 11, p. 3249-3261 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • nineteenth century
  • tropical cyclone
  • storm damage
  • damage
  • natural hazard
• 2013

  Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

  PAGES 2k Consortium & Nash, D., 21 Apr 2013, In: Nature Geoscience. 6, p. 339-346 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • cold
  • cooling
  • Medieval Warm Period
  • eighteenth century
  • regional pattern

• Long-term variability in the date of monsoon onset over western India

  Adamson, G. & Nash, D., 1 Jan 2013, In: Climate Dynamics. 40, 11-12, p. 2589-2603 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • monsoon
  • Southern Oscillation
  • plantation
  • crop
  • rainfall

• Provenancing of silcrete raw materials indicates long-distance transport to Tsodilo Hills, Botswana, during the Middle Stone Age

  Nash, D., Coulson, S., Staurset, S., Ullyott, J., Babutsi, M., Hopkinson, L. & Smith, M., 25 Feb 2013, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 64, 4, p. 280-288 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Provenancing
  • Middle Stone Age
  • Botswana
  • White Paintings
  • Raw Materials

• Provenancing silcrete in the Cape coastal zone: implications for Middle Stone Age research in South Africa

  Nash, D., Coulson, S., Staurset, S., Smith, M. & Ullyott, J., 1 Nov 2013, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 65, 5, p. 682-688 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • archaeology
  • Republic of South Africa
  • news

• Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years

  Nicholson, S., Nash, D., Chase, B., Grab, S., Shanahan, T., Verschuren, D., Asrat, A., Lezine, A-M. & Umer, M., 31 Mar 2013, In: Holocene. 23, 8, p. 1085-1094 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Medieval
  • Africa
  • anomaly
  • climate
  • temperature
• 2012

  Africa

  Nash, D. & Meadows, M. E., Oct 2012, Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics. Metcalfe, S. E. & Nash, D. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 79-150 72 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

• Desert environments

  Nash, D., 28 Mar 2012, Hot Deserts: Engineering, Geology and Geomorphology. Walker, M. J. (ed.). London, UK: Geological Society, Vol. 25. p. 7-32 26 p. (Engineering Geology Special Publications).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

• Duricrusts

  Nash, D., 1 Sep 2012, Southern African geomorphology: Recent trends and new directions. Bloemfontein, SA: Sun Media, p. 191-229 39 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter

• Introduction to Quaternary environmental change in the tropics

  Metcalfe, S. E. & Nash, D., 1 Oct 2012, Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics. Metcalfe, S. E. & Nash, D. J. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 3-33 31 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

• Past environmental changes, future environmental challenges

  Nash, D. & Metcalfe, S. E., 2012, Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics. Metcalfe, S. E. & Nash, D. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 392-411 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

• Quaternary environmental change in the tropics

  Metcalfe, S. E. (ed.) & Nash, D. (ed.), 28 Sep 2012, Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 464 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book - edited