Past Human and Environment Dynamics Research and Enterprise Group

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The Past Human and Environment Dynamics (PHED) Research and Enterprise Group brings together academics and PhD students working on key issues in Quaternary science, with a particular focus on geomorphology and archaeology. The group's research is truly international in scope, including projects in the Arctic, North and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe.

Research within PHED falls under the following two themes: 1) Reconstruction of Past Environments, and 2) Humans in Ancient Landscapes. The first theme focusses on the reconstruction of past environments over timescales from millions of years to the recent past, providing fundamental understanding of past environmental, climatic and landscape changes in for example, glacial, periglacial and dryland environments. The second theme focuses on the ways in which humans engaged with landscapes in the past, including for example, the origins of the species, palaeolithic human cannibalism, the extraction and use of raw materials (e.g. gold, tin, iron) during the Bronze-Iron Age, and the ritual significance early humans gave to rivers and other water bodies in the UK.

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University of Brighton
Mithras House
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT