Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology (QEG)

Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology (QEG) is an international group exploring the interface of Quaternary climate changes and landscape dynamics in diverse global systems.

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Our strength is in investigating human-environment interactions and past climate dynamics and responses across and between the Earth’s five 'spheres'.

These five 'spheres' are cryosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere.

Our world-class laboratory facilities underpin our research outputs.

They allow us to drive forward novel methodological techniques in Quaternary science, such as pollen geochemistry and field-portable luminescence.

QEG’s world-leading research draws upon our numerous productive international and national partnerships, including analytical facilities and academic collaborators.

Our research

Our people

Events

William Boyd Dawkins Lecture Series

Year Speaker Title
2020 Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway University of London Our beastly past: vertebrate responses to abrupt climate change during the last 60,000 years in Britain
2017 Jill Cook, Natural History Museum Ice Age Art and the Human Environment in Europe 40,000 to 10,000 years ago
2015 Tom Higham, University of Oxford Time for the Palaeolithic: Radiocarbon dating, the Neanderthal demise, and the arrival of Modern Humans in Europe
2014 Paul Pettitt, Durham University Cave hunting 140 years on: Late Ice Age humans in Britain
2012 Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum Ice Age Mammals and Environmental Change

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