Nicholas Branch
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+44 (0) 118 378 6102
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Professor
- School Director for Recruitment and Admissions
- Recruitment and Admissions Officer, Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Areas of interest
- Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate and environmental change in Peru, Italy and the UK
- Climate resilience and food production in the Peruvian Andes: past, present and future
Postgraduate supervision
Undergraduate, master's, PhD and postdoctoral supervision:
Nicholas is keen to discuss proposals for research on Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change and human activities in Peru, Italy and the UK.
Research and enterprise placements
Nicholas is keen to discuss proposals for work experience in Quaternary science, archaeological science and cultural adaption to climate change.
Current PhD supervision
- Testing the resilience of traditional agriculture in the Peruvian Andes to periods of climate change and human activity (Funded by the AHRC).
- Sarah Thoma: Climate and environmental change in southern England during the last Millennium.
- Maria Rabbani: Investigating human-environmental interactions in the Zagros region (southwest Asia) during the early to mid- Holocene period – a multi-proxy approach.
- Quantifying responses to abrupt climate change in the Andes, South America: Empirical data and model synergies (Funded by the NERC).
- Andrew Reynolds: Late Bronze Age and Iron Age hoards in Wales and Marches: An investigation into patterns of selective and reflective deposition.
Previous topics have included:
- Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental application of geophysics and hydrogeochemistry to lowland wetlands in the UK, Ireland and France (Bunting)
- Archaeology, geoarchaeology and palaeohydrology of the River Walbrook, London (Myers)
- Environmental history and archaeology of SE England during the Mesolithic (Simmonds)
- Archaeology, palaeohydrology and palaeoclimatology of lowland wetlands in central Ireland (Stastney)
- Tephrochronology of the western Mediterranean (Turner); Archaeology, vegetation succession and palaeoclimatology of lowland wetlands in central Ireland (Young)
- Archaeobotany and early agriculture in the Middle East (Whitlam)
- The application of non-pollen palynomorphs to archaeological and geological archives in NW Italy (Morandi).
Research centres and groups
Research projects
- Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northern Apennines, Italy
- Holocene climate and environmental change in the Peruvian Andes
- Adaptive capacity of farming communities to climate change in the Peruvian Andes
- Climate resilience and food production in Peru (CROPP)
- Climate change and resilience in the Chillón Valley (CHILLY), Peru
- The environmental history of SE England with a specific emphasis on the history of Taxus woodland
Background
Nicholas Branch is a Professor in Quaternary Palaeoecology.
He has a BSc (Hons) in Archaeology, and MSc in Bioarchaeology (Archaeobotany), from University College London (Institute of Archaeology).
Nicholas has a PhD in Geography from Royal Holloway (University of London), Centre of Quaternary Research, where he studied the 'Late Würm Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history and human activities of the Northern Apennines, Italy'.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London), and an associate of the Walker Institute for Climate Systems Research and Soil Research Centre.
Publications
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Handley, J.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6471-2742
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Branch, N.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8826-0365
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Meddens, F.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7210-7101
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Simmonds, M.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7845-0392
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Iriarte, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8155-5360
(2023)
Pre-Hispanic terrace agricultural practices and long-distance transfer of plant taxa in the southern-central Peruvian Andes revealed by phytolith and pollen analysis.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
ISSN:
0939-6314
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00946-w
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Simmonds, M.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7845-0392
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Branch, N.
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Cousins, D.
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Williams, K.
(2021)
The past vegetation cover and human environment of Petersfield Heath.
In:
Needham, S.
and
Anelay, G.
, (eds.)
Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities: Petersfield Heath Excavations 2014–18 in their Regional Context.
Sidestone Press
, Leiden.
pp.
385-407.
ISBN:
9789464260441
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Simmonds, M.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7845-0392
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Branch, N.
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Marshall, P.
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Hosfield, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6357-2805
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Black, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1396-4821
(2021)
New insights into late Devensian late glacial and early Holocene environmental change: two high-resolution case studies from SE England.
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
, 287
ISSN:
0034-6667
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104364
- Guido, M. , Molinari, C. , Moneta, V. , Branch, N. , Black, S. , Simmonds, M. , Stastney, P. , Montanari, C. (2020) Climate and vegetation dynamics of the northern Apennines (Italy) during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews , 231 (1). ISSN: 0277-3791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106206
- Batchelor, C. , Branch, N. , Carew, T. , Elias, S. , Gale, R. , Lafferty, G. , Matthews, I. , Meddens, F. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Webster, L. , Young, D. (2020) Middle Holocene environmental change and archaeology in coastal wetlands: further implications for our understanding of the history of Taxus woodland. The Holocene , 30 (2). pp. 300-314. ISSN: 0959-6836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683619883028
- Simmonds, M. , Hosfield, R. , Branch, N. , Black, S. (2019) From findspot to site: a spatial examination of the Mesolithic resource in Surrey. Surrey Archaeological Collections , 102 pp. 43-69. ISSN: 0309-7803
- Young, D. , Green, C. , Branch, N. , Elias, S. , Bateson, C. , Batchelor, R. (2018) Environmental setting: geoarchaeological investigations and environmental analysis. In: Jacques, D. , Phillips, T. , Lyons, T. , (eds.) Blick Mead: Exploring the 'first place' in the Stonehenge Landscape. Studies in the British Mesolithic and Neolithic Peter Lang pp. 35-66. ISBN: 9781787070967 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b11044
- Morandi, L. and Branch, N. (2018) Long-range versus short-range prehistoric pastoralism. Potential of palaeoecological proxies and a new record from western Emilia, northern Apennines, Italy. In: Pelisiak, A. , Nowak, M. , Astaloş, C. , (eds.) People and the Mountains. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd pp. 47-60. ISBN: 9781784918170
- Stastney, P. , Young, D. , Branch, N. (2018) The identification of Late Holocene bog bursts at Littleton bog, Ireland: ecohydrological changes display complex climatic and non-climatic drivers. The Holocene , 28 (4). pp. 570-582. ISSN: 0959-6836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683617735581
- Thoma, S. , Williams, K. , Branch, N. , Green, C. , Batchelor, R. , Simmonds, M. , Young, D. (2017) Environmental history. In: Poulton, R. , (eds.) The moated medieval manor and Tudor royal residence at Woking Palace. Excavations between 2009 and 2015. SpoilHeap Publications ISBN: 9781912331031
- Riddiford, N. , Branch, N. , Jusseret, S. , Olivier, L. , Green, C. (2016) Investigating the human—environment relationship of early intensive salt production: a case study from the Upper Seille Valley, Lorraine, northeast France. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 10 pp. 390-402. ISSN: 2352-409X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.10.018
- Smith, M. , Singarayer, J. , Valdes, P. , Kaplan, J. , Branch, N. (2016) The biogeophysical climatic impacts of anthropogenic land use change during the Holocene. Climate of the Past , 12 (4). pp. 923-941. ISSN: 1814-9332 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-923-2016
- Wilkinson, K. , Branch, N. , Llobera, M. , Marini, N. , Mazet, S. , Weiss, M. (2016) The Neolithic in La Balagne, Corsica: an evaluation using palynological, geoarchaeological and landscape archaeological data. In: Nash, G. and Townsend, A. , (eds.) Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean island ritual. Oxbow Books pp. 226-239. ISBN: 9781785700507
- Branch, N. and Morandi, L. (2015) Late Würm and Early-Middle Holocene environmental change and human activities in the Northern Apennines, Italy. Il Capitale Culturale , 12 pp. 537-563. ISSN: 2039-2362
- Bradley, R. , Lewis, J. , Mullin, D. , Branch, N. (2015) 'Where water wells up from the earth’: excavations at the findspot of the Late Bronze Age hoard from Broadward, Shropshire. Antiquaries Journal , 95 pp. 21-64. ISSN: 1758-5309 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003581515000177
- Jusseret, S. , Olivier, L. , Watteaux, M. , Riddiford, N. , Branch, N. (2015) Le Briquetage de la Seille (Moselle) : géoarchéologie et archéogéographie d’un complexe d’exploitation intensive du sel à l’âge du Fer. In: Olmer, F. and Roure, R. , (eds.) Les Gaulois au fil de l’eau : actes du 37e colloque international de l'Association Française pour l'Étude de l'Âge du Fer, Montpellier 2013. Vol. 1, Communications. Ausonius , Bordeaux. pp. 515-537. ISBN: 9782356131294
- Branch, N. (2015) Environmental archaeology. In: Wright, J. , (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. Elsevier , Oxford. pp. 692-698. ISBN: 9780080970868
- Batchelor, C. , Branch, N. , Allison, E. , Austin, P. , Bishop, B. , Brown, A. , Elias, S. , Green, C. , Young, D. (2014) The timing and causes of the Neolithic elm decline: new evidence from the Lower Thames Valley (London, UK). Environmental Archaeology: the Journal of Human Palaeoecology , 19 (3). pp. 263-290. ISSN: 1461-4103 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1749631414Y.0000000031
- Graham, D. , Graham, A. , Branch, N. , Simmonds, M. (2014) Environmental sampling of a bell barrow on Horsell Common, Woking. Surrey Archaeological Collections , 98 ISSN: 0309-7803
- Branch, N. , Black, S. , Maggi, R. , Marini, N. (2014) The neolithisation of Liguria (NW Italy): an environmental archaeological and palaeoenvironmental perspective. Environmental Archaeology: the Journal of Human Palaeoecology , 19 (3). pp. 196-213. ISSN: 1749-6314 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1749631414Y.0000000024
- Meddens, F. , Willis, K. , McEwan, C. , Branch, N. (2014) Introduction: Inca sacred space – landscape, site and symbol in the Andes. In: Meddens, F. , Willis, K. , McEwan, C. , Branch, N. , (eds.) Inca sacred space: landscape, site and symbol in the Andes. Archetype Publications , London. ISBN: 9781909492059
- Branch, N. , Frouin, M. , Kemp, R. , Marini, N. , Meddens, F. , Onuora, C. , Silva, B. (2014) The landscape, environment and pedo-sedimentary context of Inca stepped platforms (‘ushnus’), Ayacucho, Peru. In: Meddens, F. , Willis, K. , McEwan, C. , Branch, N. , (eds.) Inca sacred space: landscape, site and symbol in the Andes. Archetype Publications , London. ISBN: 9781909492059
- Branch, N. (2014) Agrarian landscapes: environmental archaeological studies. In: Smith, C. , (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer pp. 84-90. ISBN: 9781441904263
- Branch, N. , Green, C. , Silva, B. , Palmer, A. , Austin, P. , Williams, A. (2013) Environmental evidence. In: Lambert, R. , Margetts, A. , Robertson, J. , (eds.) Prehistoric, Roman and Saxon Discoveries near Thorpe and Virginia Water. , 3. SpoilHeap Publications pp. 166-172. ISBN: 9780957650916
- Branch, N. , Stallard, J. , Bailey, R. (2013) Optically stimulated luminescence dating. In: Jones, P. , (eds.) A Mesolithic 'Persistent Place' at North Park Farm, Bletchingley, Surrey. SpoilHeap Publications ISBN: 9780957650909
- Green, C. , Farr, L. , Branch, N. , Jones, P. , Kemp, R. (2013) Geoarchaeological investigations. In: Jones, P. , (eds.) A Mesolithic 'Persistent Place' at North Park Farm, Bletchingley, Surrey.. SpoilHeap Publications ISBN: 9780957650909
- Swindles, G. , Lawson, I. , Matthews, I. , Blaauw, M. , Daley, T. , Charman, D. , Roland, T. , Plunkett, G. , Schettler, G. , Gearey, B. , Turner, T. , Rea, H. , Roe, H. , Amesbury, M. , Chambers, F. , Holmes, J. , Mitchell, F. , Blackford, J. , Blundell, A. , Branch, N. , Holmes, J. , Langdon, P. , McCarroll, J. , McDermott, F. , Oksanen, P. , Pritchard, O. , Stastney, P. , Stefanini, B. , Young, D. , Wheeler, J. , Becker, J. , Armit, I. (2013) Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene. Earth Science Reviews , 126 pp. 300-320. ISSN: 0012-8252 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.08.012
- Branch, N. and Marini, N. (2013) Mid-late Holocene environmental change and human activities in the northern Apennines, Italy. Quaternary International , 353 pp. 34-51. ISSN: 1040-6182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.053
- Green, C. , Farr, L. , Branch, N. (2013) Geomorphology, site formation and landscape context. In: Jones, P. , (eds.) Upper Palaeolithic Sites in the Lower Courses of the Rivers Colne and Wey: Excavations at Church Lammas and Wey Manor Farm. , 5. SpoilHeap Publications pp. 14-16.
- Braithwaite, R. , Black, S. , Branch, N. , Maggi, R. (2013) Evaluating the environmental impact of metallurgical activities during the Copper Age and Bronze Age (~5800-2900 cal yrs BP) in the Ligurian Apennines, north-west Italy: a pilot study. Archeologia Postmedievale , 17 ISSN: 1592-5935
- Branch, N. (2013) Early–Middle Holocene vegetation history, climate change and human activities at Lago Riane (Ligurian Apennines, NW Italy). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany , 22 (4). pp. 315-334. ISSN: 0939-6314 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-012-0384-9
- Branch, N. (2012) Paleoenvironmental reconstruction. In: Silberman, N. , (eds.) Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford University Press , New York. pp. 607-609. ISBN: 9780199735785
- Branch, N. (2012) Environmental analysis. In: Silberman, N. , (eds.) Oxford Companion to Archaeology. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press , New York. pp. 486-488. ISBN: 9780199735785
- Branch, N. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Silva, B. , Green, C. , Swindle, G. , Allison, E. , Austin, P. , Armitage, P. , Cameron, C. , Keen, D. , Finch, P. (2012) Environmental evidence. . In: Leary, J. and Butler, J. , (eds.) Roman archaeology in the upper reaches of the Walbrook Valley: excavations at 6-8 Tokenhouse Yard, London EC2. . PCA monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology (14). , Epsom. pp. 60-75. ISBN: 9780956305459
- Riddiford, N. , Branch, N. , Green, C. , Armitage, S. , Olivier, L. (2012) Holocene palaeoenvironmental history and the impact of prehistoric salt production in the Seille Valley, Eastern France. The Holocene , 22 (8). pp. 831-845 . ISSN: 0959-6836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683611434221
- Branch, N. , Batchelor, C. , Cameron, N. , Coope, G. , Densem, R. , Gale, R. , Green, C. , Williams, A. (2012) Holocene environmental changes in the lower Thames Valley, London, UK: implications for our understanding of the history of Taxus woodland. The Holocene , 22 (10). pp. 1143-1158 . ISSN: 0959-6836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683612441805
- Leary, J. , Branch, N. , Rayner, L. (2011) Prehistoric Southwark: Excavations in Bermondsey shed further light on the prehistory of north Southwark. London Archaeologist , 13 (2).
- Branch, N. (2011) Environmental analysis of Tobacco Dock (Site A) samples. In: Douglas, A. , Gerrard, J. , Sudds, B. , (eds.) A Roman Settlement and Bath House at Shadwell: Excavations at Tobacco Dock and Babe Ruth Restaurant, The Highway, London. PCA Monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (12). ISBN: 9780956305428
- Jarrett, C. , Bishop, B. , Branch, N. , Allison, E. , Batchelor, R. , Green, C. , Pickard, C. (2010) Flints and frying pans: excavations at 11-13 Point Pleasant and the Morganite Works, Wandsworth. Surrey Archaeological Collections , 95 pp. 139-167.
- Branch, N. , Green, C. , Batchelor, R. , Young, D. , Elias, S. , Cameron, N. , Athersuch, J. (2010) A tale of two power stations: environmental archaeological investigations at Battersea and Lots Road power stations. London Archaeologist , 12 pp. 267-273.
- Olivier, L. , Branch, N. , Bravard, J. , Coutelle, A. , Charlier, P. , Evans, J. , Jay, M. , Jouanin, G. , Montgomery, J. , Kremer, C. , Lagadec, J. , Li, S. , Remor, G. , Riddiford, N. , Tegel, W. , Williams, K. , Wirtz, B. (2010) Nouvelles recherches sur le site de sauniers du premier âge du fer de Marsal 'la digue' (Moselle). Antiquities Nationales , 41 pp. 127-160.
- Meddens, F. and Branch, N. (2010) The Huari state, its use of ancestors, rural hinterland and agricultural infrastructure . In: Jennings, J. , (eds.) Beyond Wari Walls: Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru. University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 9780826348678
- Schreve, D. and Branch, N. (2010) A Quaternary timeline: a teaching tool for interpreting palaeoenvironmental, palaeoclimatic and archaeological change over the last 500,000 years. Proceedings of the Geologists Association , 121 (1). pp. 83-86. ISSN: 0016-7878 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2010.02.008
- Carew, T. , Meddens, F. , Batchelor, R. , Branch, N. , Elias, S. , Goodburn, D. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Webster, L. , Yeomans, L. (2009) Human-environment interactions at the wetland edge in East London: trackways, platforms and Bronze Age responses to environmental change. London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions , 60 pp. 1-34.
- Meddens, F. , Branch, N. , Vivanco, C. (2009) Plataformas usnu a gran altitude en el departamento de Ayacucho, Perú: su distribución y su significado, Conchopata. Revista de Arqueologia , 22 (2). pp. 173-210. ISSN: 1982-1999
- Safford, R. , Maltby, E. , Duong , V. , Branch, N. (2009) Melaleuca wetlands and sustainable development in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. In: Maltby, E. and Barker, T. , (eds.) The Wetlands Handbook. Blackwells Scientific , Oxford. pp. 829-849. ISBN: 9780632052554
- Branch, N. (2009) Diet and Environment. In: Butler, J. and Ridgeway, V. , (eds.) Secrets of the Gardens: Archaeologists unearth the lives of Roman Londoners at Drapers’ Gardens. Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd ISBN: 9780956305411
- Branch, N. , Gale, R. , Swindle, G. (2009) Wood identification results. In: Whitaker, J. , (eds.) Peatland Excavations 2001-2002 Mountdillon Group of Bogs, Co. Longford. Wordwell Limited , Leopardstown. pp. 79-82. ISBN: 9780955585817
- Rose, J. , Juby, C. , Bullen, M. , Davies, S. , Branch, N. , Gammage, Z. , Candy, I. , Palmer, A. (2008) The stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeoenvironments and duration of the early Middle Pleistocene sediments at West Runton, north Norfolk. In: Candy, I. , Lee, J. , Harrison, A. , (eds.) The quaternary of northern East Anglia: field guide. Quaternary Research Association pp. 157-181.
- Williams, J. , Hunter, R. , Branch, N. , Swindle, G. , Walsh, N. , Valcarez, I. , Palmer, A. , Langdale-Smith, T. , Allen, M. (2008) Monitoring leaching from cast in situ piles. In: Kars, H. and van Heeringen, R. , (eds.) Preserving Archaeological Remains in situ. Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological studies Vrije Universiteit (10). , Amsterdam. pp. 175-180.
- Branch, N. (2008) North Park Farm, Bletchingley, Surrey. In: Bayliss, A. , Bronk Ramsey, C. , Cook , G. , van der Plicht, J. , McCormac, G. , (eds.) Radiocarbon Dates from samples funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund 2002-7. English Heritage , Swindon. pp. 98-101. ISBN: 9781848020047
- Branch, N. , Poole, I. , Silva, B. , Green, C. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Valcarel, I. (2008) Environmental evidence. In: Richmond, A. and Coates, G. , (eds.) Bronze Age Field System at Tower’s Fen, Thorney, Peterborough: Excavations at ‘Thorney Borrow Pit’ 2004-2005. BAR British Series Archaeopress (471). , Oxford. pp. 55-67. ISBN: 9781407303635
- Edgeworth, M. , Blockley, K. , Branch, N. , Green, C. , Silva, B. , Swindle, G. , Webster, J. , Webster, P. (2008) Excavation of a Romano-British enclosure complex at Burton Wold Farm, Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Archaeology , 35 pp. 27-43.
- Graham, D. , Graham, A. , Farr, L. , Branch, N. (2008) A probable Bronze Age mound on the King’s Ridge, Frensham Common. Surrey Archaeological Collections , 94 pp. 181-189.
- Branch, N. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Green, C. , Keen, D. , Elias, S. , Austin, P. , Swindle, G. (2008) Environmental Analysis. In: Bradley, T. and Butler, J. , (eds.) From Temples to Thames Street – 2000 Years of Riverside Development: Archaeological Excavations at the Salvation Army International Headquarters, 99–101 Queen Victoria Street, City of London. PCA Monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (7). pp. 55-62. ISBN: 9780954293864
- Meddens, F. , Branch, N. , Vivanco Pomacanchari, C. , Riddiford, N. , Kemp, R. (2008) High altitude 'Ushnu' platforms in the Department of Ayacucho, Peru: structure, ancestors and animating essence. In: Staller, J. , (eds.) Pre-Columbian Landscapes of Creation and Origin. Springer pp. 315-356. ISBN: 9780387769097
- Turney, C. , Blockley, S. , Lowe, J. , Wulf, S. , Branch, N. , Mastrolorenzo, G. , Swindle, G. , Nathan, R. , Pollard, A. (2008) Geochemical characterisation of Quaternary tephras from the Campanian Province, Italy. Quaternary International , 178 pp. 288-305. ISSN: 1040-6182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2007.02.007
- Bailey, R. , Branch, N. , Stallard, J. (2007) North Park Farm Quarry, Bletchingley, Surrey: Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of a Mesolithic archaeological site, Stage 1. English Heritage (98-2007). pp 14.
- Branch, N. (2007) Bletchingley: North Park Farm, Surrey. In: Bayliss, A. , Ramsey, G. , Cook, G. , van der Plicht, J. , (eds.) Radiocarbon Dates from samples funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund 2002-4. English Heritage, Swindon pp. 42-43. ISBN: 9781905624966
- Branch, N. and Barber, A. (2007) A Late Iron Age and Roman farmstead at RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, evaluation and excavation 2002-03. Archaeologia Cambrensis , 155 pp. 49-115.
- Branch, N. , Kemp, R. , Silva, B. , Meddens, F. , Williams, A. , Kendall, A. , Pomacanchari, C. (2007) Testing the sustainability and sensitivity to climatic change of terrace agricultural systems in the Peruvian Andes: a pilot study. Journal of Archaeological Science , 34 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN: 0305-4403 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.03.011
- Branch, N. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Silva, B. , Green, C. , Williams, A. (2006) Medieval and Post Medieval environmental analysis. In: Butler, J. , (eds.) Reclaiming the marsh: archaeological excavations at Moor House, City of London. PCA Monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (6). pp. 138-143. ISBN: 9780954293857
- Branch, N. and Vaughan-Williams, A. (2006) Geochemical and plant macrofossil analyses of a Medieval pit. In: Butler, J. , (eds.) Reclaiming the marsh: archaeological excavations at Moor House, City of London. PCA Monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (6). pp. 143-145. ISBN: 9780954293857
- Branch, N. , Green, C. , Swindle, G. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Williams, A. , Wyatt, C. (2006) A Bronze Age field system: the environmental context. In: Carew, T. , Bishop, B. , Meddens, F. , Ridgeway, V. , (eds.) Unlocking The Landscape, Archaeological Excavations at Ashford Prison, Middlesex. PCS Monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (5). pp. 36-36. ISBN: 9780954293840
- Branch, N. , Green, C. , Swindle, G. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Williams, A. , Wyatt, C. (2006) The Iron Age settlement: the environmental context. In: Carew, T. , Bishop, B. , Meddens, F. , Ridgeway, V. , (eds.) Unlocking The Landscape, Archaeological Excavations at Ashford Prison, Middlesex. PCA Monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (5). pp. 74-75. ISBN: 9780954293840
- Branch, N. , Green, C. , Swindle, G. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Williams, A. , Wyatt, C. (2006) A Neolithic monumental landscape: the environmental context. In: Carew, T. , Bishop, B. , Meddens, F. , Ridgeway, V. , (eds.) Unlocking The Landscape, Archaeological Excavations at Ashford Prison, Middlesex. PCA Monograph Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd (5). pp. 25-26. ISBN: 9780954293840
- Turney, C. , Kershaw, A. , Lowe, J. , van der Kaars, S. , Johnston, R. , Rule, S. , Moss, P. , Radke, L. , Tibby, J. , McGlone, M. , Wilmshurst, J. , Vandergoes, M. , Fitzsimons, S. , Bryant, C. , James, S. , Branch, N. , Cowley, J. , Kalin, R. , Ogle, N. , Jacobsen, G. , Fifield, L. (2006) Climate variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20-10 kyr BP). Quaternary Science Reviews , 25 (9-10). pp. 886-903. ISSN: 0277-3791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.09.007
- Turney, C. , Kershaw, A. , James, S. , Branch, N. , Cowley, J. , Fifield, L. , Jacobsen, G. , Moss, P. (2006) Geochemical changes recorded in Lynch's Crater, Northeastern Australia, over the past 50 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 233 (3-4). pp. 187-203. ISSN: 0031-0182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.09.009
- Green, C. , Branch, N. , Coope, G. , Field, M. , Keen, D. , Wells, J. , Schwenninger, J. , Preece, R. , Schreve, D. , Canti, M. , Gleed-Owen, C. (2006) Marine Isotope Stage 9 environments of fluvial deposits at Hackney, north London, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews , 25 (1-2). pp. 89-113. ISSN: 0277-3791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.10.011
- Branch, N. , Vaughan-Williams, A. , Silva, B. , Green, C. , Williams, A. (2006) Roman Environmental Analysis. . In: Butler, J. , (eds.) Reclaiming the marsh: archaeological excavations at Moor House, City of London.. , 6. Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd pp. 31-34.
- Kemp, R. , Branch, N. , Silva, B. , Meddens, F. , Williams, A. , Kendall, A. , Pomacanchari, C. (2006) Pedosedimentary, cultural and environmental significance of palaeosols within Pre-Hispanic agricultural terraces in the southern Peruvian Andes. Quaternary International , 158 pp. 13-22. ISSN: 1040-6182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2006.05.013
- Butler, J. , Goodburn, D. , Jarrett, C. , Egan, G. , Palmer, A. , Branch, N. (2005) A previously unknown watercourse west of the City. London Archaeologist , 11 (1). pp. 9-19. ISSN: 0024-5984
- Branch, N. , Canti, M. , Clark, P. , Turney, C. (2005) Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches. Edward Arnold, London
- Leary, J. , Branch, N. , Bishop, B. (2005) 10,000 years in the life of the river Wandle: excavations at the former Vinamul site, Butter Hill, Wallington. Surrey Archaeological Collections , 92 pp. 1-28.
- Keeley, H. , Allison, E. , Branch, N. , Cameron, N. , Dobinson, S. , Ellis, I. , Ellison, P. , Fairbairn, A. , Green, C. , Hunter, R. , Lee, J. , Locker, J. , Lowe, J. , Palmer, A. , Robinson, E. , Stewart, J. , Wilkinson, K. (2004) The environmental evidence. In: Clark, P. , (eds.) The Dover Bronze Age Boat. English Heritage , Swindon. pp. 229-250. ISBN: 1873592590
- Branch, N. (2004) Late Wurm lateglacial and Holocene environmental history of the Ligurian Apennines, Italy. In: Balzaretti, R. , Pearce, M. , Watkins, C. , (eds.) Ligurian landscapes: studies in archaeology, geography and history. Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy Accordia Research Institute (10). , London. pp. 7-69. ISBN: 1873415281
- Branch, N. and Green, C. (2004) The environmental history of Surrey. In: Cotton, J. , Crocker, G. , Graham, A. , (eds.) Aspects of archaeology and history in Surrey: towards a research framework for the county. Surrey Archaeological Society , Guildford. pp. 1-18. ISBN: 954146034
- Turney, C. , Kershaw, A. , Clemens, S. , Branch, N. , Moss, P. , Fifield, L. (2004) Millennial and orbital variations of El Nino/Southern Oscillation and high-latitude climate in the last glacial period. Nature , 428 pp. 306-310. ISSN: 0028-0836 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02386
- Masefield, R. , Branch, N. , Couldrey, P. , Goodburn, D. , Tyers, I. (2003) A later Bronze Age well complex at Swalecliffe, Kent. Antiquaries Journal , 83 pp. 47-121. ISSN: 1758-5309 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500077672
- Oldfield, F. , Asioli, A. , Accorsi, C. , Mercuri, A. , Juggins, S. , Langone, L. , Rolph, T. , Trincardi, F. , Wolff, G. , Gibbs, Z. , Vigliotti, L. , Frignani, M. , van der Post, K. , Branch, N. (2003) A high resolution late Holocene palaeo environmental record from the central Adriatic Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews , 22 pp. 319-342. ISSN: 0277-3791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-3791(02)00088-4
- Proctor, J. , Bishop, B. , Branch, N. (2002) Prehistoric and environmental development on Horsleydown: excavations at 1-2 Three Oak Lane: palynology. Surrey Archaeological Collections , 89 pp. 1-26. ISSN: 0309-7803
- Branch, N. (2002) L'analisi palinologica per lo studio della vegetazione e della sua gestione. In: Campana, N. and Maggi, R. , (eds.) Archeologia in valle Lagorara. Istituto Italiano Di Preistoria e Protostoria , Florence. pp. 339-353. ISBN: 9788860450111
- Davies, S. , Branch, N. , Lowe, J. , Turney, C. (2002) Towards a European tephrochronological framework for Termination 1 and the Early Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , 360 (1793). pp. 767-802. ISSN: 1471-2962 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2001.0964
- Divers, D. , Branch, N. , Green, C. , Jarrett, C. , Moore, P. , Phillpotts, C. , Schwenninger, J. (2001) Excavations at 552 Kings Road, Chelsea: geology and topography. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society , 52 pp. 1-9. ISSN: 0076-0501
- Briant, R. , Rose, J. , Branch, N. (2000) Trimingham (TG 277391 and TG 274393): pre-glacial coastal sands, gravels and organic muds. In: Lewis, S. , Whiteman, C. , Preece, R. , (eds.) The quaternary of Norfolk and Suffolk. QRA Field Guides Quaternary Research Association , London. pp. 85-90. ISBN: 9780907780496
- Davies, S. , Rose, J. , Branch, N. , Candy, I. (2000) West Runton (TG 188432 and TG 185432): pre-glacial gravels, freshwater muds and coastal sand and gravels. In: Lewis, S. , Whiteman, C. , Preece, R. , (eds.) The quaternary of Norfolk and Suffolk. QRA Field Guides Quaternary Research Association , London. pp. 61-66. ISBN: 9780907780496