GRANTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Grants Involving OSL Dating

  1. Environmental change in Namibia during the last 300 ka from cave speleothems, tufas and fluvial sediments. National Science Foundation, 2000-2005, $328,938.
  2. Paleobiogeographical tracks in isolated dune faunas of southwestern Africa, with Eugene Marais and John Irish. National Geographic Society, 2002-2004, $25,050.
  3. Archaeological and paleoenvironmental investigation of the initial appearance of domesticated livestock in the Lake Ngami region of Botswana and the LSA background, with Larry Robbins of Michigan State University. National Science Foundation, 2003-2005, Georgia portion of grant $56,286.
Publications with OSL Ages

Robbins, L.H., Murphy, M.L., Brook, G.A., Ivester, A.H., Campbell, A.C., Klein, R.G., Milo, R.G., Stewart, K.M., Downey, W.S. and Stevens, N.J. (2000). Archaeology, Paleoenvironment and Chronology of the Tsodilo Hills White Paintings Rock Shelter: Northwest Kalahari Desert, Botswana. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 1085-1113.

Brook, G.A., Embabi, N. S., Ashour, M. M., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Cowart, J. B. and Dabous, A. A. (2002). Djara Cave in the Western Desert of Egypt: Morphology and evidence of Quaternary climatic change. Cave and Karst Science 29 (2): 57-66.

Thomas, D., Brook, G., Shaw, P., Bateman, M., Haberyan, K., Appleton, C., Nash, D., Mclaren, S. and Davies, F. (2003). Late Pleistocene Wetting and Drying in the NW Kalahari: An Integrated Study from the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana. Quaternary International 104: 53-67.

Brook, G.A., Embabi, N. S., Ashour, M. M., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Cowart, J. B. and Dabous, A. A. (2003). Quaternary environmental change in the Western Desert of Egypt: evidence from cave speleothems, spring tufas, and playa sediments. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Suppl.-Vol. 131: 59-87.

Leigh, D.S., Srivastava, P., and Brook, G.A. (2004). Late Pleistocene braided rivers on the Southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, U.S.A. Quaternary Science Reviews (in press).

Srivastava, P., Brook, G.A., and Marais, E. (2004). Records of wetter conditions and fluvial aggradation in the hyper-arid Namib Desert during the Late Pleistocene. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie (in press).

Srivastava, P., Brook, G.A., and Marais, E. (2004). Luminescence chronology and depositional environment of the Hoarusib River Clay Castles sediments, northern Namib Desert, Namibia. Catena (in review).