Life Histories

Research Theme 3: Life Histories

Thematic research encompassing 'Life Histories' includes: 

• transition from hunting to herding
• demographic instabilities in early farming societies
• diet
• stable isotopic and aDNA analyses
• palaeopathology, including both skeletal and dental disease
• diagnostic and epidemiological problems, particularly the morphology of teeth and jaws
• health and variation in past populations & forensic application of these methods
• death and burial

Research projects

Current projects

• Acheulean cognition
• Arabian Prehistory
• Archaeology of growth and development in children
• The Archaeology of the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)
• The Beaker People
• Between the Mountains and the Flood - Early Neolithic Settlement Archaeology in Northwestern Romania
• Boncuklu Hoyuk Project
• Boxgrove Project
• Colonization and connectivity in tropical Wallacea and Sahul 
• Diet and dental disease
• East African coastal caves
• Envronmental Ethics in Ancient India
• Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies
• From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory (COREX)
• Function and form of teeth in human evolution
• Hunting for Neanderthal and Human Fossils at the Periphery of Palaeolithic Europe
• Ice Age Island: The Early Prehistory of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey and wider La Mancheland
• Indus Geomorphology
• Kharaneh IV: Epipalaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Jordanian Steppe
• Lower Tilemsi Valley Project
• Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer subsistence in Sri Lanka
• Prehistoric hunting strategies in Jordan
• Ramtek Survey
• Sanchi Survey Project
• SEALINKS
• St Patrick’s Chapel Excavation Project
• The Violet Bank Survey: Capturing Fragile Intertidal Prehistory at Scale

Recent projects 

• Antikythera Survey Project
• Azraq Project, Jordan
• Beedings Palaeolithic Survey
• Changing London: Town Planning from a Human Evolutionary Perspective
• Commensality, Cooking, Dining and the Politics of Gastronomy in the Near East
• Comparative Pathways to Agriculture (ComPAg)
• Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL)
• Early Farming in Dalmatia
• Early Rice Project
• Excavations at Cova Gran, Spain
• Excavations at Roca dels Bous, Spain
• Feeding Stonehenge
• Hand to Mouth
• The Impact of Evolving of Rice Systems from China to Southeast Asia
• Learning to be Human
• Macroevolutionary patterning in Technological Evolution
• ORACEAF: The Origins of the Acheulean in East Africa
• Origins and Spread of Stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe
• Palaeoanthropological research in the Ethiopian Rift Valley
• Qadisha Valley Project, Lebanon
• Transmission of innovations: comparing and modelling the spread of farming practices in Europe (EUROFARM)
• Valdoe Survey