Updates Archive

A new analysis of size variation in Conomurex fasciatus shells from the Farasan Islands has recently been published.

Antiquity journal has just published the first results of the Wadi Dabsa site, one of the largest concentrations of Palaeolithic material discovered during the DISPERSE surveys in SW Arabia

Two new DISPERSE papers on the coastal ecology of the Farasan Islands have recently been published

Members of DISPERSE took part in a workshop on the

Geoff Bailey spent 6 weeks in New Zealand and Australia to lecture about the DISPERSE project and gain a comparative southern hemisphere perspective on the role of coastal, tectonic and volcanic landscapes in patterns of human dispersal.

Geoffrey King led a field trip to Kenya and Tanzania from 4th to 24th February with Simon Kuebler and Stephen Rucina to extend field mapping of edaphic and tectonic features in the Rift

As the DISPERSE project draws towards its formal end (31 March 2016), and members of the team reach the end of their research contracts, they are dispersing to new positions around the globe.

Anthony Sinclair and Andy Shuttleworth visited the National Museum Riyadh from 30th October to 13th November and successfully completed study of the material recovered from the January 2015 survey,

Robyn Inglis attended the 2015 meeting of the INQUA-funded MedFLOOD Project, held in Istria, 15-19th October.

New papers published in Nature Scientific Reports, Quaternary International, Evolutionary Anthropology, Internet Archaeology, Comptes Rendus Geoscience

Geoff Bailey, Robyn Inglis and Garry Momber all participated in this year's meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, held in Glasgow from 2nd–5th September.

Niklas Hausmann successfully passed his PhD viva examination, which took place last Wednesday, 12th August, and is seen here at King’s Manor shortly after the viva.

Geoff Bailey and Geoffrey King both gave invited presentations at the international ROCEEH conference on human expansions, held at the Senckenburg Museum in Frankfurt am Main from 13–17th July.

Geoffrey King has recently been awarded a Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Robyn Inglis presented research on the Palaeolithic of the Harrat Al Birk, SW Saudi Arabia at the Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2015 conference in Oxford, UK, in April.

Members of DISPERSE held a working meeting at the Ludwig Maximilians University Department of Earth and Environmental Science on 29–30 January, 2015.

A new paper by Isabelle Winder has been published in the journal Folia Primatologica.

Geoff Bailey gave a lecture at the headquarters of the Saudi Geological Survey in Jeddah on 10 December.

DISPERSE members held a two-day workshop at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) on the 11-12 November to discuss current results and future plans with particular focus on the Red Sea.

Robyn Inglis and Matt Meredith-Williams joined the MEDFLOOD 2014 field workshop to discuss sea level change in the Eastern Mediterranean and its impact on past societies.

Between 1 and 26 September, Geoffrey King continued work with other members of DISPERSE on the tectonic geomorphology and edaphics of the Kenyan Rift, following up the work begun last year.

Niklas Hausmann attended this meeting on 27–30 August and presented a poster on new laser techniques of palaeoclimatic analysis.

A new paper by Robyn Inglis et al. has been published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 2013.

Geoff Bailey gave a lecture on the recent work of the DISPERSE project in SW Saudi Arabia at a meeting of European and Saudi archaeologists and scientists engaged in international collaboration

Robyn Inglis visited the Scottish Universities' Environmental Research Centre in East Kilbride on the 1st May 2014 to deliver a research seminar.

Geoff Bailey and Robyn Inglis gave a joint Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar at the University of Liverpool on the 27th March 2014.

Robyn Inglis and Anthony Sinclair, leading an international DISPERSE team, have completed a highly successful two month-long campaign of field research and analysis in the Jizan and Asir regions of

Research by DISPERSE project members Robyn Inglis, Matt Meredith-Williams and Niklas Hausmann featured prominently in the Department of Archaeology's contribution to the RAEng's Summer Exhibition.

The R/V AEGAEO (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research) successfully completed an underwater survey in the Red Sea between 29 May and 13 June.

During February, DISPERSE team members Robyn Inglis, Abdullah Alsharekh, Anthony Sinclair and Andy Shuttleworth carried out extensive new field survey in the Jizan and Asir provinces.

Geoff Bailey visited the Republic of China between 10 and 16 December to deliver the Fu Ssu-nien Memorial Lectures on The Archaeology of Ancient Coastlines

Geoff Bailey, Robyn Inglis, Matt Meredith-Williams and Niklas Hausmann carried out new fieldwork and reconnaissance on the Farasan Islands and the Jizan mainland In November.

Geoff Bailey co-organised a session on Geology and Archaeology: Submerged Landscapes of the Continental Shelf at the 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane, Australia.

Geoffrey King and Geoff Bailey made a first visit to the Kenyan Rift between 11 February and 6 March.

Geoff Bailey gave an opening lecture at a UNESCO Scientific Colloquium on the Factors impacting Underwater Cultural Heritage, held at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels on the 13–14 December

Geoff Bailey and Abdullah Alsharekh visited the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on 11 September.