Background and experience
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Reader in Geoarchaeology and academic director of the McBurney Geoarchaeology Laboratory in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Prior to April, 1992, when he became a lecturer at Cambridge, he was the palaeo-environmentalist and assistant director for Fenland Archaeological Trust since 1983. He specialises in the analysis and interpretation of buried landscapes using geomorphological and micromorphological techniques, and acts as an environmental archaeology consultant and micromorphologist for many archaeological units in eastern England and beyond.
He currently is involved in landscape projects in the East Anglian fenlands, the chalk downlands of Wessex, western Sicily, the Benta valley of Hungary, the Tagus valley of central Portugal, central New Mexico and southern Patagonia. His most recent publications include Geoarchaeology in Action: Studies in soil micromorphology and landscape evolution (2003) and Archaeology and Environment of the Etton landscape (with Francis Pryor, 2005).
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