Mark Roberts, UCL, Principle Research Fellow and Projects' Director.

Led research at Boxgrove, and on the Pleistocene deposits of the coastal plain since 1984. His research interests are the colonisation of Europe, Middle Pleistocene chronostratigraphy and its impact upon archaeological theory, and hominid behaviour during the Middle Pleistocene. Mark is a member of the Arbeitsgruppe Mauer, based in Heidelberg, which is researching the chronology, palaeoenvironments and behaviour of Middle Pleistocene hominids belonging to the species Homo heidelbergensis. He is also the principle British contributor to the European Science Foundation work-shop on the earliest occupation of Europe. In 1994/95, he was awarded the Stopes medal for services to Quaternary geology and Palaeolithic archaeology.

Contact: mark.roberts@ucl.ac.uk

Matthew Pope, UCL, Deputy Director, Research Fellow and resident lithic analyst.

Supervised excavations between 1995 and 1997 and continues to study aspects of assemblage taphonomy and technology at the site. His current research is aimed at reconstructing hominid activity at the horse butchery site (GTP 17) and the interpretation of hominid landuse patterns in the Middle Pleistocene. Matthew completed his PhD at Southampton University in 2002. He is a member of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins at Southampon (CAHO) and Meetings Secretary of the Lithic Studies Society.

contact: m.pope@ucl.ac.uk

 

Simon Parfitt, UCL, Senior Research Fellow and resident faunal analyst of the project.

His primary research interests include the taphonomy, palaeoecology and evolution of British mammalian fauna, particularly the early Middle Pleistocene. Currently on secondment to the AHOB project, he is involved in a number of collaborative research projects incorporating faunal material from multi-period archaeological sites in Britain, Europe and North Africa.

Contact: s.parfitt@ucl.ac.uk

Specialists.

Excavations at Boxgrove began in 1985 and subsequently developed into a large multidisciplinary research project, utilising over forty specialists from the many disciplines that constitute Quaternary Research. The project is run on a multidisciplinary basis to ensure that the archaeological material, which consists of flint bifacial tools, the debitage from their manufacture and butchered animal remains, are placed accurately in temporal, spatial and palaeoenvironmental context.

The specialists who are currently working with the Project include:

John Whittaker, Natural History Museum. (invertebrate microfauna)

Phil Gibbard, University of Cambridge. (pollen)

Russell Coope, Royal Holloway. (insects)

Clive Roberts, University of Wolverhampton. (electrical imaging)

Peter Hopson, British Geological Survey. (solid rock geology)

Jonathon Holmes, UCL. (isotope analysis)

Jeremy Young, Natural History Musuem. (calcareous nanoplanktons)

Richard Preece, University of Cambridge (molluscs).

Richard MacPhail (sediment micromorphology)