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Overview

Martin Williams is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and has contributed to research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Genetics, Space and Planetary Science, and Archaeology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Archaeological Research and Protection
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation
  • Plant and animal studies

Williams has authored and coauthored multiple papers, among which are:

  • The Khartoum-Omdurman conurbation: a growing megacity at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers (2020), published in Journal of Maps
  • Identifying disturbance in archaeological sites in tropical northern Australia: Implications for previously proposed 65,000-year continental occupation date (2020), published in Geoarchaeology
  • Reply to "Letter to the editors on termite stone lines" by Smith et al. (2021) (2021), published in Geoarchaeology
  • Reconstructing prehistoric environments in the Son and Belan valleys, north-central India: Retrospect and Prospect (2021), published in Journal of Palaeosciences
  • When the Land Sings: Reconstructing Prehistoric Environments Using Evidence from Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology, with Examples Drawn from Fluvial Environments in the Nile and Son Valleys (2022), published in Quaternary

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Nigel A. Spooner
  • Kathryn McDonnell
  • James F. O'Connell
  • Andrea Zerboni
  • Filippo Brandolini

Williams's work has appeared in several key publication venues, predominantly:

  • Geoarchaeology
  • Journal of Maps
  • Journal of Palaeosciences
  • Quaternary

In addition to journal articles, Martin Williams has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Princeton University Press:

  • When the Sahara Was Green (2021)

Best Publications

  • Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota.

    M. Byrne;D.K. Yeates;L. Joseph;M. Kearney

  • The Sahara and the Nile.

    M. A. J. Williams;H. Faure

  • Late Quaternary history of the Nile

    D. A. Adamson;F. Gasse;F. A. Street;M. A. J. Williams

  • Climatic patterns in equatorial and southern Africa from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

    Françoise Gasse;Françoise Chalié;Annie Vincens;Martin A.J. Williams

  • Interactions of Desertification and Climate

    M. A. J. Williams;Robert C. Balling

  • When did homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul

    James F. O’Connell;Jim Allen;Martin A. J. Williams;Alan N. Williams

  • Environmental impact of the 73 ka Toba super-eruption in South Asia

    Martin A.J. Williams;Stanley H. Ambrose;Sander van der Kaars;Carsten Ruehlemann

  • Potential impact of climate change on wheat yield in South Australia

    Qunying Luo;William Bellotti;Martin Williams;Brett Bryan

  • Late quaternary climatic changes in Australia and North Africa: A preliminary interpretation

    P. Rognon;P. Rognon;M.A.J. Williams;M.A.J. Williams

  • All toba tephra occurrences across peninsular India belong to the 75,000 yr B.P. eruption

    John A. Westgate;Philip A. R. Shane;Nicholas J. G. Pearce;William T. Perkins

  • Late Pleistocene tropical aridity synchronous in both hemispheres

    M. A. J. Williams

  • Glacial and deglacial climatic patterns in Australia and surrounding regions from 35 000 to 10 000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

    Martin Williams;Ellyn Cook;Sander van der Kaars;Tim Barrows

  • Age and rates of denudation of Trap Series basalts at Blue Nile Gorge, Ethiopia

    I. Mcdougall;W. H. Morton;M. A. J. Williams

  • The ion chemistry of lakes and late Holocene desiccation in the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China

    Xiaoping Yang;Martin A.J Williams

  • The Nile: Evolution, Quaternary River Environments and Material Fluxes

    Jamie C. Woodward;Mark G. Macklin;Michael D. Krom;Martin A. J. Williams

  • Abrupt return of the summer monsoon 15,000 years ago: new supporting evidence from the lower White Nile valley and Lake Albert

    Martin Williams;Michael Talbot;Paul Aharon;Yassin Abdl Salaam

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene environments in the Nile basin

    Martin A.J. Williams

  • Palaeoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia

    J. Desmond Clark;Berhane Asfaw;Getaneh Assefa;J. W. K. Harris

  • Tensional fissures and crustal extension rates in the northern part of the Main Ethiopian Rift

    F.M. Williams;M.A.J. Williams;F. Aumento

  • New Geochemical Evidence for the Youngest Toba Tuff in India

    Phil Shane;John Westgate;Martin Williams;Ravi Korisettar

  • Landform evolution in Australasia

    J. L. Davies;M. A. J. Williams;J. N. Jennings

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark G. Macklin
Mark G. Macklin University of Lincoln
Jamie Woodward
Jamie Woodward University of Manchester
Stanley H. Ambrose
Stanley H. Ambrose University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brett A. Bryan
Brett A. Bryan Deakin University
Geoff A.T. Duller
Geoff A.T. Duller Aberystwyth University
Sander van der Kaars
Sander van der Kaars Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael R. Talbot
Michael R. Talbot University of Bergen
Evelyn S. Krull
Evelyn S. Krull CSIRO Land and Water
Timothy T. Barrows
Timothy T. Barrows University of New South Wales
David M. McKirdy
David M. McKirdy University of Adelaide

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