A5040113812- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Ancient Near East History
King's College London
2021-2025
Royal Holloway University of London
2019-2021
Faculty of 1000 (United States)
2021
University of Winchester
2017
Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Armenian Highlands wider southern Caucasus region emphasises significance of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (c. 57–29 ka) as a crucial period for understanding hominin behaviours amidst environmental fluctuations. Ararat-1 cave, situated in Ararat Depression, Republic Armenia, presents potential resolving emerging key debates regarding land use adaptations during this interval, due to its well-preserved lithic artefacts faunal...
Abstract Here we report the findings from excavations at open-air Middle Palaeolithic site of Alapars-1 in central Armenia. Three stratified artefact assemblages were found within a 6-m-thick alluvial-aeolian sequence, located on flanks an obsidian-bearing lava dome. Combined sedimentological and chronological analyses reveal three phases sedimentation soil development. During Marine Oxygen Isotope Stages 5–3, manner deposition changes alluvial to aeolian, with development horizons....
ABSTRACT Investigations at Oak Tree Fields, Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire, in western England have revealed a sequence of fluvial deposits dating from Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 7 to 5. At the base sequence, series gravel and sand facies were deposited, initially as part meandering river. Reductions flow energy latter avulsion led development short‐lived channels episodic backwater environments, which are recorded Facies Associations 1–3. Poorly sorted, probably colluvial formed beyond...
ABSTRACT Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 11 (MIS 11, Hoxnian Interglacial) is an important interval for understanding both climate change in interglacial partially analogous to the Holocene and response of geomorphic processes, biotic systems, hominin populations these changes. In Britain, many sites correlated MIS have not been studied since mid‐20th century require reinvestigation, including Hitchin tufa sequence, where a rich, non‐marine molluscan assemblage was originally recovered....
ABSTRACT The significance of the southern Caucasus in understanding Pleistocene hominin expansions is well established. However, palaeoenvironments which Palaeolithic occupation region took place are presently poorly defined. Hrazdan river valley, Armenian Highlands, contains a rich record alongside Middle volcanic, fluvial and lacustrine strata, thus offer exciting potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. We present first results sedimentological, geochemical, tephrostratigraphical...
Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Armenian Highlands wider southern Caucasus region emphasises significance of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (c. 57-29 ka) as a crucial period for understanding hominin behaviours amidst environmental fluctuations. Ararat-1 cave, situated in Ararat Depression, Republic Armenia, presents potential resolving emerging key debates regarding land use adaptations during this interval, due to its well-preserved lithic artifacts faunal...
<p>Understanding the chronology and environmental context of earliest hominin expansions into Eurasia is considerable interest in palaeoanthropology, however, our current knowledge based on a handful sites.  Dated to 1.85–1.78 Ma, Dmanisi (southern Georgia) not only locus <em>Homo </em>fossils but has also yielded stone tools rich assemblages vertebrate fossils (1,2).  Whilst fundamentally changed views timing...