Robin Dennell

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Robin William Dennell (* 1947 ) is a British prehistorian . In particular, he researches the expansion of man from Africa to East Asia during the Paleolithic . From 1995 until his retirement in 2010 he was Professor of Archeology and Human Prehistory at the University of Sheffield .

Training and research

Robin Dennell studied archeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1966 , where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1969 and received his doctorate in 1977 with a study of prehistoric agriculture in Bulgaria . As early as 1973 he taught at times at the University of Sheffield, where his areas of interest at that time mainly included archaeobotany and the early days of agriculture during the Neolithic in Europe and the Middle East . In 1983 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Archeology in Sheffield , Reader in Archeology in 1994 and Professor in Human Origins the following year.

From 1981 to 1999 - from 1988 as excavation director - he researched the fossil sites of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens in Pakistan , since 2005 he has been researching the history of human settlements in what is now China in collaboration with the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . He is also a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Seeds from a medieval sewer in Woolster Street, Plymouth. In: Economic Botany. Volume 24, No. 2, 1970, pp. 151-154, doi: 10.1007 / BF02860594
  • Botanical evidence for prehistoric crop processing activities. In: Journal of Archaeological Science. Volume 1, No. 3, 1974, pp. 275-284, doi: 10.1016 / 0305-4403 (74) 90027-2
  • Archaeobotany and early farming in Europe. In: Archeology. Volume 31, No. 1, 1978, pp. 8-17
  • European Economic Prehistory: A New Approach. Academic Press, London and New York 1983, ISBN 978-0122091803
  • with HR Rendell and M. Halim: Pleistocene and Palaeolithic Investigations in the SoanValley, Northern Pakistan. In: British Archaeological Reports. International Series, Volume 544, 1989, ISBN 978-0860546917
  • with Marek Zvelebil and Lucyna Domanska (eds.): Harvesting the Sea, Farming the Forest. The Emergence of Neolithic Societies in the Baltic Region. (= Sheffield Archaeological Monographs. Volume 10). Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1998, ISBN 1-85075-648-1
  • Early Hominin Landscapes in Northern Pakistan: Investigations in the Pabbi Hills. In: British Archaeological Reports. International Series, Volume 1265, 2004
  • with Wil Roebroeks : An Asian perspective on early human dispersal from Africa. In: Nature . Volume 438, 2005, pp. 1099-1104, doi: 10.1038 / nature04259
  • The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York / Melbourne 2009, ISBN 978-0511818882
  • Palaeoanthropology: Early Homo sapiens in China. In: Nature. Volume 468, 2010, pp. 512-513, doi: 10.1038 / 468512a
  • with María Martinón-Torres and José M. Bermúdez de Castro : Hominin variability, climatic instability and population demography in Middle Pleistocene Europe. In: Quaternary Science Reviews. Volume 30, No. 11-12, 2011, pp. 1511-1524, doi: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2009.11.027
  • An Earlier Acheulian Arrival in South Asia. In: Science . Volume 331, No. 6024, 2011, pp. 1532-1533, doi: 10.1126 / science.1203806
  • with Michael D. Petraglia: The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex? In: Quaternary Science Reviews. Volume 47, 2012, pp. 15-22, doi: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2012.05.002
  • Hominins, Deserts, and the Colonization and Settlement of continental Asia. In: Quaternary International. Volume 300, 2013, pp. 13-21, doi: 10.1016 / j.quaint.2012.12.002
  • The Nihewan Basin of North China in the Early Pleistocene: Continuous and flourishing, or discontinuous, infrequent and ephemeral occupation? In: Quaternary International. Volume 295, 2013, pp. 223-236, doi: 10.1016 / j.quaint.2012.02.012
  • with Julien Louys, Hannah J. O'Regan and David M. Wilkinson: The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives. In: Quaternary Science Reviews. Volume 96, 2014, pp. 98-107, doi: 10.1016 / j.quascirev.2013.06.031
  • Homo sapiens in China 80,000 years ago. In: Nature. Volume 526, 2015, pp. 647-648, doi: 10.1038 / nature15640
  • Where Evolutionary Biology Meets History: Ethno-nationalism and Modern Human Origins in East Asia. Chapter 11 in: Jeffrey H. Schwartz (Ed.): Rethinking Human Evolution. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2017, pp. 229-250, ISBN 978-0262037327 , full text
  • Zhaoyu Zhu, Robin Dennell, Weiwen Huang et al .: Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago. In: Nature. Online pre-publication of July 11, 2018, doi: 10.1038 / s41586-018-0299-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robon Dennell: Early Farming in South Bulgaria from the VI to the III millennium BC (= British Archaeological Reports. International Series, Volume 45). Archaeopress, Oxford 1978, ISBN 978-0-86054021-2 .
  2. ↑ Biography on the University of Exeter web server. Accessed July 16, 2018; Biography on the Wenner-Gren Foundation web server . Accessed July 16, 2018
  3. ^ British Academy: Professor Robert Dennell. Accessed July 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Dennell, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dennell, Robin William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH 1947