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Graduate Student, Archaeology
PhD Candidate
Thesis Title: A palaeoclimate framework for the early human occupation of North Africa: isotopic analysis of molluscs
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Tamsin O'Connell
Rhiannon Stevens Graeme Barker |
About
My research interests include palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment reconstruction, natural hazards particularly palaeotsunamis and human-environment interactions.
I am currently doing my PhD in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. My PhD research is focused on on the generation of high-resolution climate records from mollusc sells in the eastern Mediterranean. I employ stable isotope analysis, micromorphology and other geochemical techniques on marine and terrestrial gastropod shells to study palaeoclimate, seasonality and seasonal foraging strategies from the Haua Fteah, an archaeological site in northeast Libya. The results from this study will include paired marine and terrestrial late Quaternary climate records that potentially extend beyond 90,00 years ago. This research contributes to an international project entitled “Cultural transformations and environmental transitions in North African prehistory” (TRANS-NAP). The project is centred around the archaeological sequence at the Haua Fteah, one of the longest and most important sequences of human occupation in North Africa.
Between 2005-2009, I worked as a research scientist for Geoscience Australia (the Australian Geological Survey Organisation). My research primarily focused on the study of the Holocene geological record for evidence of past tsunamis. I have been involved in tsunami geology research projects in many countries including Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Chile, Oman and Pakistan.
I completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Archaeology and a Bachelor of Science with first class Honours majoring in Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne in 2004. My Honours dissertation integrated archaeology with multiple climate proxies including stable isotope analysis, soil micromorphology and geomorphology to reconstruct Quaternary environmental change and human interactions in the semi-arid zone of southeastern Australia ("Late Quaternary environments of the Murray River Valley in northwestern Victoria").
