Palaeoenvironments Research Centre (PARC)

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The Palaeoenvironments Research Centre (PARC) brings together researchers at King's College London working across palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, palaeoclimatology, palaeodemography, archaeology and Quaternary environmental change. The Centre integrates field, laboratory and computational approaches to understand past climates, environments and human-landscape interactions, using the past to inform understanding of long-term environmental change and future challenges. Its members work across a wide geographical range, including the UK, Europe, North Africa, Arabia, the Himalayas, the southern Caucasus and Antarctica, and its research spans multiple timescales, focusing on Quaternary and historical environmental change.

It is particularly concerned with advancing understanding of human-environment interactions, through an interdisciplinary approach that combines palaeoclimate reconstructions, geomorphology, geochemistry, archaeology, remote sensing, GIS, geochronology, environmental and climate modelling, historical climatology, and digital and participatory methods. Its research themes are palaeoclimate and societal impacts; palaeodemography and dispersals; adaptation to past climate change; and the development and application of novel techniques. A centre of King's Department of Geography, it held its first public event in June 2026, a talk on the origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge, co-hosted with the King's Climate Research Hub.

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King's College London (KCL)
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