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Academic Staff Research Interests

 

Archaeology

Professor Peter Bellwood
Prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (world-wide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology.

Mr Tony Barham
Geoarchaeology, stratigraphy, site formation processes, past landscapes; geoarchives, environmental planning and Cultural Heritage Management; the practice of archaeology within Applied Science and planning frameworks; using archaeological site evidence to model palaeofloods, sea level rise, past and present regolith stability and tsunami risk.

Dr David Bulbeck
Human adaptation and cultural change, particularly in Southeast Asia but with growing attention to South Asia and to the southwest Pacific including Australia, incorporating complementary perspectives from biological anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and history.

Professor Graeme Clarke

Emeritus Professor Graham Connah
Archaeology of Africa; Australian historical archaeology

Mr Ian Farrington
Central and south America; landscape archaeology.

Professor Colin Groves
Nonhuman primates, human evolution, mammalian taxonomy and biogeography, animal domestication.

Dr Peter Hiscock
Stoneworking technology, Australian prehistory, and archaeological method.

Dr Marc Oxenham

Bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, Forensic Anthropology, prehistory and history of human health and behaviour, dietary reconstruction, identification of disease in the skeletal record, prehistory of Southeast Asia.

Professor Mathew Spriggs
Pacific and Southeast Asian Archaeology, British Post-Roman Archaeology and Cornish Studies.