Professor Bruce Bradley has received a Leverhulme Trust grant to investigate the development of early hominin brains in relation to the development of stone tool manufacturing. This three year research project builds on a collaboration with Dr James Steele, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
The University of Exeter is involved in a major archaeological study focusing on the sea rather than a piece of land. The research, led by Professor Van de Noort, traces the earliest seafaring in northwest Europe. In his new publication 'North Sea Archaeologies', Professor Van de Noort focuses on the way people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 BC to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500.
Current research projects in bioarchaeology involve collaboration with scholars in chemistry, biomolecular biology and biogeochemistry, ecology and soil science as well as those in the humanities, classics and ancient history and medieval history. Examples of innovative research include developing new approaches to the identification of early domestics, integrating field survey and remote sensing techniques with palaeoenvironmental analysis, as well as the use of archaeological scientific techniques as a complement to social, economic and ecological analyses of past animals, plants and people in both the Old and New Worlds.
