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Overview

Andrew S. Carr is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with a specific focus on Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, and Archeology.

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies

Frequent collaborators of Andrew S. Carr include:

  • Charles W. Helm
  • Hayley C. Cawthra
  • Jan C. De Vynck
  • Mark G. Dixon
  • Paul Strobel

The scientist has published regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Quaternary Research
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Ichnos/Ichnos: an international journal for plant and animal traces
  • Geomorphology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Constraining the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Last Interglacial sea level (2023), published in Science Advances
  • Reconstructing Late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: A multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from Vankervelsvlei (2022), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • New Excavations at Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a Stratigraphic and Taphonomic Evaluation (2020), published in African Archaeological Review
  • Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa's Cape south coast (2023), published in Ichnos/Ichnos: an international journal for plant and animal traces
  • A 25,000 year record of climate and vegetation change from the southwestern Cape coast, South Africa (2021), published in Quaternary Research

Best Publications

  • Detecting post-depositional sediment disturbance in sandy deposits using optical luminescence

    Mark D. Bateman;Claire H. Boulter;Andrew S. Carr;Charles D. Frederick

  • Aeolianite and barrier dune construction spanning the last two glacial–interglacial cycles from the southern Cape coast, South Africa

    Mark D. Bateman;Peter J. Holmes;Andrew S. Carr;Benjamin P. Horton

  • The evolution of coastal barrier systems: a case study of the Middle-Late Pleistocene Wilderness barriers, South Africa

    Mark D. Bateman;Andrew S. Carr;Adam C. Dunajko;Peter J. Holmes

  • Preserving the palaeoenvironmental record in Drylands: Bioturbation and its significance for luminescence-derived chronologies

    M.D. Bateman;C.H. Boulter;A.S. Carr;C.D. Frederick

  • Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in arid zone South African flora: Environmental controls, chemotaxonomy and palaeoecological implications

    Andrew S. Carr;Arnoud Boom;Hannah L. Grimes;Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase

  • Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the ``African Humid Period''

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Michael E. Meadows;Andrew S. Carr;Paula J. Reimer

  • Rock hyrax middens: A palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Louis Scott;Michael E. Meadows;Graciela Gil-Romera

  • Quantification of climate change for the last 20,000 years from Wonderkrater, South Africa: Implications for the long-term dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone

    Loïc Truc;Manuel Chevalier;Charly Favier;Rachid Cheddadi

  • Last interglacial fossil elephant trackways dated by OSL/AAR in coastal aeolianites, Still Bay, South Africa

    David L. Roberts;Mark D. Bateman;Colin V. Murray-Wallace;Andrew S. Carr

  • The last interglacial sea-level high stand on the southern Cape coastline of South Africa

    Andrew S. Carr;Mark D. Bateman;David L. Roberts;Colin V. Murray-Wallace

  • Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone during the Holocene

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Sophak Lim;Manuel Chevalier;Arnoud Boom

  • Holocene climate change in southernmost South Africa: rock hyrax middens record shifts in the southern westerlies

    Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Arnoud Boom;Andrew S. Carr;Michael E. Meadows

  • The dynamic relationship between temperate and tropical circulation systems across South Africa since the last glacial maximum

    Brian M. Chase;Manuel Chevalier;Arnoud Boom;Andrew S. Carr

  • A high resolution 15,600-year pollen and microcharcoal record from the Cederberg Mountains, South Africa

    Verushka Valsecchi;Brian M. Chase;Brian M. Chase;Jasper A. Slingsby;Andrew S. Carr

  • Understanding Late Quaternary change at the land ocean interface: a synthesis of the evolution of the Wilderness coastline, South Africa

    Hayley C. Cawthra;Mark D. Bateman;Andrew S. Carr;John S. Compton

  • Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the winter-rainfall zone of southern Africa: Palynological and sedimentological evidence from the Agulhas Plain

    Andrew S. Carr;David S.G. Thomas;Mark D. Bateman;Michael E. Meadows

  • West coast dune plumes: Climate driven contrasts in dunefield morphogenesis along the western and southern South African coasts

    David L. Roberts;Mark D. Bateman;Colin V. Murray-Wallace;Andrew S. Carr

  • Remote sensing of vegetation cover dynamics and resilience across southern Africa

    Angela Harris;A. S. Carr;Jadu Dash

  • Evolving southwest African response to abrupt deglacial North Atlantic climate change events

    Brian M. Chase;Arnoud Boom;Andrew S. Carr;Matthieu Carré

  • Developing a 150 ka luminescence chronology for the barrier dunes of the southern Cape, South Africa

    A.S. Carr;M.D. Bateman;P.J. Holmes

  • Climatic controls on Later Stone Age human adaptation in Africa's southern Cape.

    Brian M. Chase;J. Tyler Faith;Alex Mackay;Manuel Chevalier

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian M. Chase
Brian M. Chase University of Montpellier
Arnoud Boom
Arnoud Boom University of Leicester
Michael E. Meadows
Michael E. Meadows University of Cape Town
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Paula J. Reimer
Paula J. Reimer Queen's University Belfast
Sönke Szidat
Sönke Szidat University of Bern
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen
Roland Zech
Roland Zech Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Richard Walker
Richard Walker University of Oxford
Judith Sealy
Judith Sealy University of Cape Town

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