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Doctor Francis Wenban-Smith

Dr Francis Wenban-Smith

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • My primary research interests are: 
  • hominin ecology and colonisation of Europe and Asia in the Early and Middle Pleistocene, in particular the history of settlement and cultural change through the Palaeolithic in Britain 
  • human evolution and cognitive development, Palaeolithic behaviour and material culture 

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Email: f.wenban-smith@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65a, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

Research

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Research interests

  • My primary research interests are: 
  • hominin ecology and colonisation of Europe and Asia in the Early and Middle Pleistocene, in particular the history of settlement and cultural change through the Palaeolithic in Britain 
  • human evolution and cognitive development, Palaeolithic behaviour and material culture 
  • Pleistocene chrono-stratigraphy and geo-archaeology, with a particular emphasis on the Middle and Late Pleistocene in Britain 
  • environmentally sustainable development and heritage management, in particular concerning Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology, and Ice Age fossil remains 

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