Plymouth
Neil Roberts is emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at University of Plymouth. His research emphasises past climatic and environmental change since the time of the last glacial maximum, specifically derived from lake-sediment archives. He has worked extensively in eastern Africa, the Mediterranean and West Asia, often with close links to archaeology. Since 1993 he has directed a series of field programmes in Turkey. He is author of the key text, the Holocene (3rd ed. 2014), and is an editor of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. He has served on many national and international committees concerning past global changes, including the National Academies Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 2,000 Years, set up at the request of the US Congress in 2006.
Ralph Fyfe is Professor of Geospatial Information at the University of Plymouth. His research is centered on
environmental change and archaeology through the Holocene, predominantly (but
not exclusively) through pollen-analytical methods. His work primarily focuses
on Europe, working on projects in Britain and Ireland, Scandinavia and Italy.
He has been a member of the Nordforsk-funded POLLANDCAL (POLlen-LANDscape
CALibration) and LANDCLIM (Land-climate interactions) networks, and is
currently coordinating efforts to generate state-of-the-art knowledge of
Europe-wide Holocene land cover as part of the Past Global Changes (PAGES)
LANDCOVER6K working group.
Jessie Woodbridge is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at
the University of Plymouth. Her research background is focused on
reconstruction of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change using palaeoecological
techniques based on peat and lake-sediment archives. Her PhD research on
diatom-inferred Eastern Mediterranean palaeoclimate was completed in 2009, and
since this time her Post-Doctoral work has focused on pollen/diatom analysis
and environmental reconstruction.
University College London (UCL)
Stephen
Shennan is Professor of Theoretical Archaeology at the UCL Institute of
Archaeology, where he was Director from 2005 to 2014. Since the late 1980s his interests have been
mainly focused on exploring the use of method and theory from the study of
biological evolution to understanding cultural stability and change, with a
particular focus on the role of demographic factors. He has published over 100 papers and several
authored and edited books, most recently Connecting Networks: characterising
contact by measuring lithic exchange in the European Neolithic (2015),
co-edited with Tim Kerig. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of
the Academia Europaea.
Alessio
Palmisano is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at UCL and is
currently working on a research project examining the relationship between
inferred regional demographic trends in the Mediterranean since the appearance
of farming (ca. 9000 years ago) and reconstructed land cover in the past. His
research so far has been primarily focused on the study of Western Asian and
Eastern Mediterranean early complex societies, the analysis of settlement
patterns, and the development of bespoke quantitative and computational methods
to Archaeology. He also took part, with roles of scientific responsibility, in
several campaigns of archaeological fieldwork, primarily in Syria, Turkey and
Italy.
Andy Bevan is Professor of Spatial and Comparative Archaeology at UCL with research interests
in Mediterranean archaeology and history, human settlement, landscape ecology, GIS
and spatial analysis.
