Britain’s first people - when?
Submitted by PaulM on Monday, 24 March 2003 Page Views: 1683
DiscoveriesA five year project looking at when people first arrived in Britain, and the factors that led to their survival or local extinction has been awarded £1 million pounds.The 'Ancient Human Occupation of Britain' study will be funded by the Leverhulme Trust and undertaken by the University of Bradford, the Natural History Museum, the British Museum and other Universities including Royal Holloway, London, Queen Mary, Durham and University College London.
Project activities will include fieldwork to expand on old research, geochronology (dating of sites and material), stable isotope analysis, new studies of the palaeoecology of human sites, archaeological studies, and geographic information systems. Dr Mike Richards, Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Bioarchaeology from the University of Bradford, has joined the AHOB team as an isotope analyst.
He said: "Bradford has been given £220,000 of the grant and we are using this money to investigate past climate as well as how the diets of humans and animals have changed over the last 500,000 years. Our group is excited to be part of the AHOB project team and we look forward to discovering new aspects of Britain's past."
The AHOB website can be found here.
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