Email:

Ben.Pennington@soton.ac.uk

Dr Benjamin T Pennington MSci, MA, PhD

Visiting Fellow in Geoarchaeology

Dr Benjamin Pennington is a Visiting Fellow in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, whose primary research interests lie in the geoarchaeology of Holocene riverine and deltaic environments, especially those of the Nile.

Current and past research projects:

• Environmental change in deltaic settings and the emergence of civilisation.
• Hydroclimatic changes in the Nile basin reconstructed from sedimentary XRF analysis (with Cairo University).
• Theban harbours and waterscapes survey (with Egypt Exploration Society / Uppsala Universitet).
• Naukratis in its riverine setting (with The British Museum / Egypt Exploration Society).
• Kom al-Ahmer/Kom Wasit archaeological project (with University of Padua/Centro Archeologico Italo-Egiziano)
• Minufiyeh archaeological survey (with University of Edinburgh).
• Archaeological survey of Tell Tinnis.
• Archaeological survey of Tell Mutubis (with Durham University).
• Archaeological survey of Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli (with The British Museum).

Qualifications:

PhD (2017) University of Southampton – Geography.

MSci, MA (2011) University of Cambridge – Natural Sciences.