University College London

Faculty Member, Institute of Archaeology

Senior Research Fellow

Thesis Title: Behavioural Controls on the Formation of Biface Rich Assemblages in the Acheulean

About

Welcome to my academia.edu homepage. Here you can get details on my current research and publications.

I work for the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) as a Senior Reserach Fellow coordinating two major research projects: The reinvestigation of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey and the survey of the Early Upper Palaeolithic site of Beedings.  I also coordinate Palaeolithic and Geoarchaeological fieldwork for the Centre for Applied Archeology at UCL.

I am currently an Associate Member of the Leverhulme funded AHOB3 team and work closely with colleagues at the Centre for the Archeology of Human Origins(CAHO), where I carried out my doctoral research and I'm currently a Hoinary reserach Fellow. I am also currently Vice Chair of the Lithic Studdies Society.


My research interests are primarily with the archaeology of human origins, specifically with the adaption of early humans to northern latitudes, examing aspcts of tools use, hunting behaviour and use of landscapes. 

My past research, as part of the Boxgrove Project Team, was concerned with the interpretation of Acheulean artefact assemblages, both in terms of the spatial organisation of technology and patterns of land use by Homo Ergaster and Homo Heidelbergensis.  This work drew on detailed taphonomic studies of site formation process to allow the high resolution analysis of human behaviour at Boxgrove and other Middle Pleistocene sites.  This work generated models which suggested patterns of structured artefact discard and the emergence of semiotic systems within early human societies, a research theme which I'm now pursing through examining symbolic landscapes of modern hunter gatherers.

In 2010 I co-directed renewed excavations at Neanderthal site of La Cotte de St Brelade as part of a wider survey of stone age archaeology in the Channel Island of Jersey. The project is now being developed into a long term field school and research excavation in collaboration with CAHO, AHOB and other institutions.

I like to run, eat wild food, kayak rivers and climb things, your basic Homo sapien stuff.

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