Books

Nunn, P.D. 2018. The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World. London: Bloomsbury Sigma, 288 pages. [audio book published simultaneously]

Nunn, P.D. 2021. Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth. London: Bloomsbury Sigma, 352 p.

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Journal articles and book chapters (peer-reviewed)

Hamacher, D., Nunn, P.D., Gantevoort, M., Taylor, R., Lehman, G., Law, K.H.A. and Miles, M. 2023. The archaeology of orality: dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Archaeological Science, 159: 105819.

Lancini, L., Nunn, P.D., Nanuku, M., Tavola, K., Bolea, T., Geraghty, P. and Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. 2023. Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji) ~2500 Years Ago. Oral Tradition, 36(1), 63-90.

Nunn, P.D. 2019. Negotiating and remembering the end of the world: insights into ancient people’s responses to sea-level rise. « Négocier » et se souvenir de la fin du monde: des aperçus des réponses des anciens habitants des côtes à la remontée du niveau des mers. Norois: Environnement, Aménagement, Société, 251, 15-26. [paper was subject of a feature article in New Scientist on 13 February 2020].

Nunn, P.D. 2020. In anticipation of extirpation: how ancient peoples rationalized and responded to postglacial sea-level rise … and why it matters. Environmental Humanities, 12(1), 113-131.

Nunn, P.D. 2022. First a wudd, and syne a sea: postglacial coastal change of Scotland recalled in ancient stories. Scottish Geographical Journal, 138(1-2), 73-102. [Winner of the 2023 Marion Newbigin Prize from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society].

Nunn, P.D. and Cook, M. 2022. Island tales: culturally-filtered narratives about island creation through land submergence incorporate millennia-old memories of postglacial sea-level rise. World Archaeology, 54(1): 29-51. [focus on article in Hakai Magazine and The Atlantic].

Nunn, P.D. and Kumar, R. 2022. ‘A once capacious haven’: what happened to Calicut (Malabar coast of India) AD 1335-1887. International Review of Environmental History 8(2): 29-49.

Nunn, P.D. and Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. 2024. The drowning of ‘Lyonesse’: early legends of land submergence in southwest Britain as geoscience. Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies, 62(1): 1-17.

Nunn, P.D., Lancini, L. and Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. 2022. Lessons from Catastrophe: Risk Management in Oral Societies / Les leçons de la catastrophe: la gestion du risque dans les sociétés de culture orale. In: Compatangelo-Soussignan, R., Diosono, F. and Le Blay, F. (eds.). Living with Seismic Phenomena in the Mediterranean and Beyond between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp 83-92.

Nunn, P.D., Creach, A., Gehrels, R., Bradley, S.L., Armit, I., Stéphan, P., Sturt, F. and Baltzer, A. 2021. Observations of postglacial sea-level rise in northwest European traditions. Geoarchaeology, 37(4): 577-593.

Nunn, P.D., Lancini, L., Franks, L., Compatangelo-Soussignan, R. and McCallum, A. 2019. Maar stories: how oral traditions aid understanding of maar volcanism and associated phenomena during pre-literate times. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(5): 1618-1631.

Nunn, P.D., Luebbers, R., Hesp, P.A., Murray-Wallace, C., Wilson, C., Bourman, R.P., Roberts, A., Moffat, I., Miot da Silva, G., Dillenburg, S.R., Tamura, T., Reilly, M. and Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Corporation. 2024. Calibrating Holocene human-environment interactions using ancient stories: the example of Ngurunderi in South Australia: 1-25. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.

Nunn, P.D., Ward, I., Stéphan, P., McCallum, A., Gehrels, R., Carey, G., Clarke, A., Cook, M., Geraghty, P., Guilfoyle, D., McNeair, B., Miller, G., Nakoro, E., Reynolds, D. and Stewart, L. 2022. Human observations of Late Quaternary coastal change: examples from Australia, Europe and the Pacific Islands. Quaternary International, 638-639: 212-224.

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Popular articles

Nunn, P. 2023. Memories within Myth, Aeon, 7th April 2023. Republished in American Scientist, November-December 2023 issue, volume 111(6), slightly altered with additional material. DOI: 10.1511/2023.111.6.360

Nunn, P.D. 2023. A dramatic volcano eruption changed lives in Fiji 2,500 years ago. 100 generations have kept the story alive. The Conversation, 17th August 2023. Republished slightly altered on LiveScience, 1st September 2023