Keith Wilkinson
Lecturer
Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Winchester
United Kingdom
Biography
He have been a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer and now Reader in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Winchester (and its forebears) since 1997, before which he was in charge of environmental archaeology at Cotswold Archaeology. He obtained his undergraduate degree (1989) from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and went on to complete a PhD (1993) at the same institution titled The influence of local factors on palaeoenvironment and land-use: evidence from dry valley fills in the South Downs.
Research Interest
His research focus is the sub-discipline of geoarchaeology, i.e. the application of earth science methodologies to archaeological research questions. He have four particular interests in this field: The evolution of Mediterranean landscapes and the role of people in it, The application of airborne and satellite remote sensing systems to archaeological prospection, Development of methods for the investigation of thick stratigraphic sequences and reconstructing environments associated with Palaeolithic sites.
