 Ancient
Human Occupation of Britain
The University's Department
of Archaeological Sciences is taking part in a five-year study looking
at when people first arrived in Britain, and the factors that led to their
survival or local extinction.
Tusk
or canine tooth, of a hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) from a site at Trafalgar
Square, London.
The project has been awarded
a grant of over £1 million by the Leverhulme Trust and has invited specialists
from several Institutes and Universities to work together to investigate
'Ancient Human Occupation of Britain' (AHOB). Bradford will work alongside
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.
Foot bones of a cave bear, from a site in Essex.
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."
18 March
2003
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