Natural Environment Research Council

Environmental Factors in the Chronology of Human Evolution and Dispersal

Neanderthal climate preferences and tolerances: the need for a better chronology

Principal Investigator

Dr Rupert Housley (r.housley@archaeology.gla.ac.uk), Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. Radiocarbon dating and local environmental proxies

Co-Investigators


Prof Nick McCave (mccave@esc.cam.ac.uk). Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Sedimentology and (in collaboration with Dr J-P Valet, Paris) magnetic palaeointensity measurements

Dr David Sanderson (D.Sanderson@surrc.gla.ac.uk). Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride. Luminescence dating

Collaborators

Prof Tjeerd van Andel (vanandel@esc.cam.ac.uk). Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. PI of the Stage 3 project

Mr Oliver Bazely (oprb2@cam.ac.uk). NERC PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Tephrachronology and Palynology.

Dr David Pyle (dmp11@esc.cam.ac.uk). Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Tephrachronology

PDRAs

Dr Philip Allsworth-Jones (paj@cwjamaica.com). Department of History, University of the West Indies. Part-time Research Fellow based in the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow. Eastern European palaeolithic archaeology

Dr Christopher Burbidge (C.Burbidge@suerc.gla.ac.uk) based in the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride. Luminescence dating: OSL and TL

Research Personnel Associated with the Project

Professor V Liubin, Dr E Beliaeva, Dr A Sinitsyn and Professor A Matiukhin, Palaeolithic Department, Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.

Dr N Hidjrati, North Ossetia State University, Vladikavkaz.

Dr V. Chabai, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Crimean Branch), Simferopol.

Professor J Richter and Dr T Uthmeier, Institut für Ur- & Frühgeschichte (Köln).

Dr. D Richter, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution (Liepzig).