Graduate Student, Archaeology
Darwin College
Thesis Title: A Palaeoclimate Framework for Early Human Occupation of North Africa: Oxygen Isotopic Analysis of Tooth Enamel
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Tamsin O'Connell
Rhiannon Stevens Greame Barker |
About
I am a palaeoclimatologist specialising in stable isotope analysis. My principle focus is on Quaternary climate reconstructions that are relevant to the study of hominin history.
I am currently undertaking research towards my PhD in the Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. My work looks at the palaeoclimate of the eastern Mediterranean through the isotopic analysis (O and C) of mammalian skeletal material. My work examines climatic and environmental change over the last ~80ka.
I gained a MSc in Quaternary Science in 2009. During this degree I completed a dissertation which examined environmental changes in South Africa at the Plio-Pleistocene boundary through the isotopic analysis of speleothem deposits. Results from this study are currently being prepared for publication.
I completed a BA in Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Manchester in 2005, and a BSc in Environmental Science at the University of Leeds in 2008.
