Articles
Petek-Sargeant N, Lane PJ. in press 2021. Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. p1-18. DOI: 10.1017/S0959774321000044
Boles O, Shoemaker A, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Petek N, Ekblom A, Lane P. 2019. Historical ecologies of pastoralist overgrazing in Kenya: long-term perspectives on cause and effect. Human Ecology 47(3), 419–434.
van der Plas GW, De Cort G, Petek-Sargeant N, Wuytack T, Colombaroli D, Lane PJ. Verschuren D. 2019. Distinct phases of natural landscape dynamics and intensifying human activity in the central Kenya Rift Valley during the past 1300 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 218, 91-106.
Marchant R, Richer S, Boles O, Capitani C, Courtney-Mustaphi C, Lane P, Prendergast M, Stump D, Wynne-Jones S, Ferro Vázquez C, Wright D, Boivin N, Lang C, Kay A, Phelps L, Fuller D, Widgren M, Punwong P, Lejju J, Gaillard-Lemdahl M-J, Morrison KD, Kaplan J, Benard J, Crowther A, Cuní-Sanchez A, de Cort G, Deere N, Ekblom A, Farmer J, Finch J, Gillson L, Githumbi E, Kabora T, Kariuki R, Kinyanjui R, Kyazike E, Muiruri V, Mumbi C, Muthoni R, Muzuka A, Ndiema E, Nzabandora C, Olago D, Onjala D, Pas Schrijver A, Petek N, Platts PJ, Rucina S, Shoemaker A, Thornton-Barnett S, van der Plas G, Watson L, Williamson D. 2018. Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present. Earth-Science Reviews 178: 322-378.
Armstrong CG, Shoemaker AC, McKechnie I, Ekblom A, Szabó P, Lane P, McAlvay AC, Boles OJ, Walshaw S, Petek N, Gibbons KS, Quintana-Morales E, Anderson EN, Ibragimow A, Podruczny G, Vamosi JC, Marks-Block T, LeCompte JK, Awâsis S, Nabess C, Sinclair P, Crumley CL. (2017) Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects. PLOS ONE. 12 (2) e0171883. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171883
Alison Crowther, Patrick Faulkner, Mary Prendergast, Eréndira Quintana Morales, Mark Horton, Edwin Wilmsen, Marilee Wood, Anna Kotarba Morley, Annalisa Christie, Nik Petek, Ruth Tibesasa, Katerina Douka, Llorenç Picornell Gelabert, Xavier Carah, Nicole Boivin (2016) Coastal subsistence, island colonisation and maritime population dispersal in East African prehistory, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 11(2): 211-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2016.1188334
Petek, N. (2015) An Archaeological Survey of the Lake Baringo Lowlands 2014: Preliminary Results, Nyame Akuma 83: 100-111
Petek, N. (2011) The East African diaspora: The problem with slaves, The Post Hole 15: 13-18
Reports
Petek, N. (2014) The Baringo Archaeological Survey and Human Habitation Impact Assessment. Unpublished report submitted to the British Institute in Eastern African (BIEA) and the National Museums of Kenya (NMK), Kenya
Courtney Mustaphi, C.J., Githumbi, E., Shoemaker, A., Degefa, A.Z., Petek, N., van der Plas, G., Muriuki, R.M., Rucina, S.M., Marchant, R. (2014) Ongoing sedimentological and palaeoecological investigations at Lielerai Kimana and Ormakau Swamps, Kajiado District, Kenya. A report to the local authorities of Kimana and Namelok, Olive Branch Mission Africa Operations, and the National Museums of Kenya Palaeobotany and Palynology Section. REAL contribution 001. 29 April, 2014.
Crowther, A., Pomerantz, S., Petek, N., Wright, H., Horton, M., Mills, W., Champion, L. M., Ramilisonina, Radimilahy, C. (In prep.) Sealinks 2013 excavation reports
Crowther, A., Horton, M.C., Kotarba-Morley, A., Petek, N., Christie, A., Mills, W., Tibesasa, R. and Boivin, N. (2012) Report on fieldwork at the Juani Primary School site and Pango la Ukunju, Juani island (Mafia), Tanzania, July –August 2012. Unpublished report submitted to the Commission for Science and Technology, Tanzania and to the Antiquities Department, Ministryof Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania
Kourampas, N., Mills, W., Shipton, C., Crowther, A., Petek, N., Kotarba-Morley, A., Horton, M. and Horton, H., (2012) Geoarchaeological Reconnaissance at Kuumbi Cave (Jambiani) and the Ancient Coastal Settlement of Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar. Report submitted to the Department of Archives, Museums, and Antiquities on Zanzibar, Tanzania
Shipton, C., Kotarba-Morley, A., Petek, N., Horton, M. and Crowther, A. (2012) Report on the August 2012 excavations at Pango la Kijiji, Mapangani Village, Pemba Island, Zanzibar Archipelago. Report submitted to the Department of Archives, Museums, and Antiquities on Zanzibar, Tanzania
Conference and workshop presentations
Petek, N. (2015) Revisiting the Rift Valley Granary: From Sustainable Livelihoods to a Degraded Landscape. At: New International Community for Historical Ecology workshop, Simon Fraser University, 13-15 Nov 2015
Petek, N. (2015) Long term human subsistence and habitation impact in the southern Baringo lowlands: The case of the Ilchamus. At: British Institute in Eastern Africa seminar series, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, 30 July 2015
Petek, N. & Zenebe, A. (2014) The REALest Baringo fieldwork. At: REAL-AAREA-envIRON workshop, University of York, 29 November 2014
Petek N. (2014) Gifts, Feasts, and Social Capital: An Alternative Way to Social Stratification at Shanga, Kenya. At: 14th Congress of the Pan-African Archaeological Association, University of the Witwatersrand, 14-18 July 2014
Petek, N., & Shoemaker, A. (2014) Settlement, Economic Change, and Continuity c. AD 900-1750 in the Lake Baringo and Amboseli Basins, Kenya. At: Social-ecological Transitions, Exchange and Emergence: Resilience and Vulnerability in the Wider Baringo Basin and Adjoining Highlands, University of Cologne, 6-8 January 2014
Petek, N. (2012) The emergence of the patrician class at Shanga, Kenya: Using social and material culture theory to explain social stratification. At: Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium, Cardiff University, 8-9 November 2012
Petek, N. (2012) Leading English lives : how black people integrated and lived in the English society of the 18th and early 19th century. At: Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference, University of Oxford, 16-17 March 2012
Posters
Petek, N. (2015) The natural heritage of human occupation: How bomas shape the environment in Baringo, Kenya. At: African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 15-16 May 2015
Petek, N. & Lane, P.(2014) Landscape and Population Resilience in the Lake Baringo Basin, Kenya, AD 800-1750 At: 14th Congress of the Pan-African Archaeological Association, University of the Witwatersrand, 14-18 July 2014
Petek, N. (2012) The emergence of the patrician class at Shanga, Kenya: Using social and material culture theory to explain social stratification. At: African Archaeology Research Days, Southampton University, 3-4 November 2012
Dissertations
Petek, N. (2012) The Critique of Valuable Objects: Why it is not the Value in Objects but Their Use that Explains Social Stratification (University of Oxford: Unpublished Master’s dissertation)
Petek, N. (2011) Remembering Outsiders: The Commemoration of Black People in Bristol, Their Milieu and the Theory Behind it (University of Bristol: Unpublished Bachelor’s dissertation)