News feedsHannah Fluck
Archaeology
University of Southampton
Avenue Campus
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BF
Position: Ph.D. Researcher
Research interests
Thanks to an AHRC research studentship I returned to Southampton in October 2005 to begin my Ph.D. research into ‘Non-biface Industries in Middle Pleistocene Western Europe’ which is looking into the instances of sites in western Europe at this time which don’t have handaxes and the implications of these for our understanding of Middle Pleistocene hominin behaviour. Through this research I am studying Middle Pleistocene assemblages from France and Spain . Thanks to a grant from the Lejre Experimental Centre, Denmark, I have also undertaken experimental archaeological research into the manufacture of the Clacton spear tip and the uses of non-biface assemblages. My research interests include Hominin behaviour, Lower Palaeolithic technology, history of archaeology, experimental archaeology, the overlap between psychology and archaeology, and cognitive evolution.
Research projects
Victoria west prepared core technology
Non biface industries in western Europe
Clacton spear experiment
Butchery experiments
Biographical notes
I studied for my undergraduate degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford University between 1997 and 2000. Subsequently I worked for a variety of commercial archaeology units and in the environmental archaeology research lab in the Oxford University Museum before travelling the world excavating in Spain , Israel, Argentina, India, Georgia and Papua New Guinea . In 2001 I settled in the UK to study for an MA in the Archaeology of Human Origins at Southampton and completed it in 2002 with a dissertation on the Victoria West prepared core technology of southern Africa. After completing my MA I worked as Planning Archaeologist at Oxfordshire County Archaeology Service for three years.