Ian Thomas

Herding then farming in the Nile Delta

Xiaoshuang Zhao, Yan Liu, Ian Thomas, Alaa Salem, Yanna Wang, Said E Alassal, Feng Jiang, Qianli Sun, Jing Chen, Brian Finlayson, Penelope Wilson, Zhongyuan Chen

Journal article  |  2022  |  COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT

The Nile Delta in Egypt represents a valuable location to study the history of human societal development and agricultural advance..

Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt

Xiaoshuang Zhao, Hader Sheisha, Ian Thomas, Alaa Salem, Qianli Sun, Yan Liu, Hamdy Mashaly, Xiaomei Nian, Jing Chen, Brian Finlayson, Zhongyuan Chen

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Long-standing arguments regarding the early cultural transition, the domestication of plants and the impacts of climate change on ..

Holocene climate change and its influence on early agriculture in the Nile Delta, Egypt

Xiaoshuang Zhao, Ian Thomas, Alaa Salem, Said E Alassal, Yan Liu, Qianli Sun, Jing Chen, Fuwei Ma, Brian Finlayson, Zhongyuan Chen

Journal article  |  2020  |  PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

To investigate how Holocene climate patterns influenced the development of early Egyptian agriculture at the archaeological site o..

Long-term environmental change in eastern Tasmania: Vegetation, climate and fire at Stoney Lagoon

Penelope J Jones, Ian Thomas, Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Journal article  |  2017  |  HOLOCENE

Tasmania’s dry, inland east is ideally positioned to inform models of late Quaternary environmental change in southern Australasia..

Re-assessment of the mid to late Quaternary glacial and environmental history of the Boco Plain, western Tasmania

Paul Augustinus, David Fink, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Ian Thomas

Journal article  |  2017  |  Quaternary Science Reviews

The glacial geomorphology and drill core-based stratigraphy of the Boco Plain, western Tasmania, reveal a complex sequence of Quat..

Middle Holocene coastal environment and the rise of the Liangzhu City complex on the Yangtze delta, China

Yan Liu, Qianli Sun, Ian Thomas, Li Zhang, Brian Finlayson, Weiguo Zhang, Jing Chen, Zhongyuan Chen

Journal article  |  2015  |  QUATERNARY RESEARCH

The large prehistoric city of Liangzhu and its associated earthen dike emerged on the Yangtze delta-coast after two millennia of o..

Recruitment limitation in dry sclerophyll forests: Regeneration requirements and potential density-dependent effects in Eucalyptus tricarpa (L.A.S. Johnson) L.A.S. Johnson & K.D. Hill (Myrtaceae)

CK Orscheg, NJ Enright, F Coates, I Thomas

Journal article  |  2011  |  AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Recruitment limitation in canopy trees is receiving increasing attention as restoration of tree cover for connectivity, biodiversi..

The origin and temporal development of an ancient cultural landscape

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Ian Thomas

Journal article  |  2010  |  JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim- To reconstruct the Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation history of western Tasmania and to test the long-held notion of a rep..

A quantitative Late Quaternary temperature reconstruction from western Tasmania, Australia

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Ian Thomas

Journal article  |  2010  |  QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Quaternary temperature estimates from the mid latitudes of the Australian region suggest a breakdown in the tight coupling ob..

A Holocene record of sea level, vegetation, people and fire from western Tasmania, Australia

Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Ian Thomas

Journal article  |  2010  |  HOLOCENE

The analysis of a 10 000 calendar year (cal. ka) pollen record on the west coast of Tasmania has revealed a suite of changes that ..