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European Prehistory
Parent category: History & Archaeology
Dr Antonio Blanco-Gonzalez
Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Archaeology
Specialist expertise:
Professor David R. Bridgland
Professor, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41875
Professor, Quaternary Environmental Change
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41875
Specialist expertise:
- development of rivers especially the Thames
- development of rivers, especially the Thames
- Early humans in Britain and other parts of the world
- earth science conservation
- environment- weather and climate
- environmental change
- Ice Age History
- shallow/near shore processes & rivers
- Stone Age human activities and impacts
Professor John Chapman
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41122
Specialist expertise:
- archaeological theory
- field survey techniques
- past aspects (prehistory)
- prehistory of Central and Eastern Europe
Prof Richard Hingley
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Centre for Roman Cultural Studies
Specialist expertise:
- Boudica
- Hadrians' Wall
- Iron Age Britain
- Roman Britain
- Roman Northern Britain (northern England, Scotland)
- Roman villas
Prof Charlotte Roberts
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41154
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 41154
Mobile telephone: +44 (0) 1677 450106
Specialist expertise:
- Air quality and health in past populations
- Ancient DNA analysis and its contribution to understanding infectious disease in the past
- Disease in Britain from 10,500 BC to the mid 19th century AD
- Ethical issues and the study of human remains from archaeological sites
- Infectious disease: leprosy in past populations
- Infectious disease: treponemal disease (syphilis) in past populations
- Infectious disease: tuberculosis in past populations
- Medical and surgical treatment in the past: trepanation as seen in human remains (skull surgery)
- Reconstructing activity/occupation in the past using skeletal remans
- The study of human remains from archaeological sites, and particularly the evidence for disease
Prof Peter Rowley-Conwy
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41155
Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
Specialist expertise:
- ancient DNA
- animals in archaeology
- early agriculture
- economic archaeology
- hunter gatherers
- Mesolithic
- Mesolithic and Neolithic
- Neolithic
- origins of agriculture
- Scandinavia
- zooarchaeology
Prof Chris Scarre
Professor & Head of Department, Department of Archaeology
Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
Specialist expertise:
- Archaeology of France
- Early farming societies of Britain and France
- Megalithic tombs and stone circles
Dr Robin Skeates
Reader, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41156
Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Specialist expertise:
- Archaeological ethics
- Mediterranean prehistory - Italy, Malta, etc
- Museum studies
- Visual culture studies