Peter J. Brown

I am a landscape archaeologist with research interests in human/environment interactions across medieval Eurasia. In particular, my research explores how communities and populations in the past adapted to the specific environmental conditions within which they existed. Drawing on a combination of archaeological evidence, data from textual sources, and geospatial data, I have investigated topics including water supply and use within medieval cities, the development of irrigation and agriculture at the landscape scale, and how medieval populations were impacted by, and responded to, natural disasters.