Paul Breeze, Department of Geography, King’s College, London, UK
An archaeologist with a background in landscape archaeology, GIS, and terrestrial archaeological and geophysical survey, Paul is a NERC-funded PhD candidate at King’s College London, working with Dr Nick Drake on a GIS-based analysis of potential routes of dispersal for Hominins through the Arabian Peninsula.
His research focuses on the reconstruction of palaeohydrological networks using GIS, remotely sensed data and palaeoenvironmental proxies, and the examination of spatio-temporal relationships between these networks and the archaeological record. This analysis has the objective of examining routes which may have been available for hominins to disperse into and within the Arabian peninsula by mapping former rivers and palaeolakes, and exploring the changing availability of such potential freshwater ‘corridors’ over time in response to the climatic fluctuations of the Middle to Late Pleistocene.
Beyond hominin dispersals across the Saharo-Arabian desert belt and the evolution and dispersal of anatomically modern humans, Paul’s further research interests include site prospection and landscape-scale archaeological assessments using remote sensing, GIS and terrestrial survey.
