Robert Hosfield

Biography

My main areas of research interest are British and Western European Lower and Middle Palaeolithic archaeology, Pleistocene fluvial landscapes, experimental archaeology & site formation processes, and GIS applications in Palaeolithic and prehistoric archaeology.

I am very happy to discuss proposals for future postgraduate research in any areas of Palaeolithic archaeology, in particular: Lower and/or Middle Palaeolithic hominin behaviour and lithic technology, GIS applications, and
experimental archaeology (esp. focusing on tool use or lithic assemblage taphonomy). For further information, please contact me (r.hosfield@rdg.ac.uk).

I have recently completed a site monograph on the British Lower Palaeolithic site of Broom (Oxbow Books, 2013), and am currently working on new papers exploring global patterns in Palaeolithic technology, the challenges of Palaeolithic survival in mid-latitude environments, and the Palaeolithic and Holocene archaeology of the Wadi Muqadam region in Sudan.

My recent fieldwork has been both at home (at the British Lower Palaeolithic sites of Corfe Mullen and Knowle Farm) and abroad: Easter 2013 saw me undertaking a Palaeolithic archaeology and landscape survey in Sudan (with Dr Kevin White and Prof. Nick Drake of King’s College London).

At Reading University I teach the Lower Palaeolithic archaeology of northern Europe, the Middle Palaeolithic archaeology of Europe and SW Asia, global human origins, lithics, GIS and statistics for archaeologists.

For further details see my home page at: http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/r-hosfield.aspx