Human Planetary Transformations

Research Theme 1: Human Planetary Transformations

Thematic research encompassing 'Human Planetary Transformations' includes: 

• environmental transformations and sustainability, anthropocene, environmental fragility, resilience, food security, risk perception, land-use and the origins of anthropogenic climate change 
• early human archaeology and evolution, including the origins of stone tool technology, the biological study of human remains from archaeological sites and fieldwork as well as the responses of Neanderthals and modern human populations to climate change
• domestication of animals and plants, human demography and migration
• deep time perspective, e.g. comparative research on European Neolithic crop and livestock complexes and Asian rice domestication in collaboration with geneticists

Selected current and recent research projects

• Arabian Prehistory
• The Archaeology of the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)
• Between the Mountains and the Flood - Early Neolithic Settlement Archaeology in Northwestern Romania
• Boxgrove Project
• Colonization and connectivity in tropical Wallacea and Sahul 
• Comparative Pathways to Agriculture (ComPAg)
• East African coastal caves
• Envronmental Ethics in Ancient India
• Indus Geomorphology
• Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer subsistence in Sri Lanka
• SEALINKS
• Valdoe Survey
• The Violet Bank Survey: Capturing Fragile Intertidal Prehistory at Scale