Research project

RESET: Response of Humans to abrupt Environmental Transitions

Lead researcher:

Professor William Davies
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor William Davies

Professor of Palaeoanthropology

Research interests

Modelling mobility/dispersal, interaction and creativity/innovation in late Neanderthals and in early Homo sapiens.
Relating Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer ecologies to climatic frameworks.
Assessing inequalities in resource acquisition and development of skills in the Palaeolithic.

Connect with William

Email: S.W.G.Davies@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Abrupt shoaling of the nutricline in response to massive freshwater flooding at the onset of the last interglacial sapropel event

2012, Paleoceanography, 27(3), PA3208

DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002288

Type: article

Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early Modern Humans to natural hazards

J. Lowe, N. Barton, S. Blockley, C. Bronk Ramsey, V.L. Cullen, William Davies, Clive Gamble, K. Grant, M. Hardiman, R. Housley, C.S. Lane, S Lee, M. Lewis, A. MacLeod, M.A. Menzies, W. Mueller, M. Pollard, C. Price, A.P. Roberts, E.J. Rohling, C. Satow, V.C. Smith, C. Stringer, E.L. Tomlinson, D. White, P.G. Albert, I. Arienzo, G. Barker, D. Boric, A. Carendente, L. Civetta, C. Ferrier, J.-L. Guadelli, P. Karkanas, M. Koumouzelis, U.C. Mueller, G. Orsi, J. Pross, M. Rosi, L. Shalamanov-Korobar, N. Sirakov & P.C. Tzedakis, 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(34), 13532-13537

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204579109

Type: article

Vertical density gradient in the eastern North Atlantic during the last 30,000 years

2012, Climate Dynamics, 39(3-4), 589-598

DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1148-4

Type: article

New constraints on climate forcing and variability in the circum-Mediterranean region from magnetic and geochemical observations of sapropels S1, S5 and S6

2012, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 333-334, 1-12

DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.036

Type: article