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Biography

I am Professor of Geoarchaeology and Director of I set up ARCA in 2004 and now run its geoarchaeology and geomatics programmes.

I have been a Lecturer,ÌýSenior Lecturer, ReaderÌýand now Professor at Â鶹´«Ã½ since 1997, before which I was in charge of environmental archaeology at Cotswold Archaeology. I obtained my undergraduate degree (1989) from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and went on to complete a PhD (1993) at the same institution titled The influence of local factors on palaeoenvironment and land-use: evidence from dry valley fills in the South Downs.

At the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ I teach on BA, BSc and MA programmes in Archaeology and Geography, as well as supervising research students. I lecture on environmental archaeology, geoarchaeology, geomorphology, climate change, Pleistocene geology and Palaeolithic archaeology.

Areas of expertise

• Geoarchaeology
• Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction
• Field Survey Techniques
• GIS
• Remote Sensing
• Geomatics

Publications

Books (since 2005)

• Wilkinson, K.N. and Stevens, C. 2008 Environmental Archaeology. Approaches, Techniques & Applications. Revised Edition. Stroud: Tempus.

Edited works (since 2010)

• Wilkinson, K.N., Watson, N., Bethell, P. and Toms, P. (2018) Modelling Pleistocene deposits and the Palaeolithic archaeological potential of a site at Pan Lane, 39 Newport, Isle of Wight. In Carey, C., Howard, A.J., Knight, D., Corcoran, J. and Heathcote, J. (Eds.)ÌýDeposit modelling and archaeology, University of Brighton, Brighton, 39-50.
• Wilkinson, K.N., Branch, N.P., Llobera, M., Marini, N.A.F, Mazet, S. and Weiss, M-C. (2015) The Neolithic in La Balagne, Corsica: an evaluation using palynological, geoarchaeological and landscape archaeological data. In: G. Nash and A. Townsend (Eds) Decoding Atlantic and Mediterranean island ritual. Oxbow, Oxford, 226-239.
• Adler, D.S., Yeritsyan, B. Wilkinson, K.N., Pinhasi, R., Bar-Oz, G., Nahapetyan, S., Bailey, R., Schmidt, B.A. Glauberman, P., Wales, N. and Gasparian. B. (2012) The Hrazdan Gorge Palaeolithic Project, 2008 – 2009, in: P. Avetisyan and A. Bobokhyan (Eds) Archaeology of Armenia in regional context, Proceedings of the International Conference dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography held on September 15-17, 2009 in Yerevan, Armenia. NAS RA Gitutyn Publishing House, pp 21-37.
• Wilkinson, K.N. (2010) Investigation of a palaeosol sequence at Jeitun: excavation of a ditch-like feature and magnetic susceptibility. In: D.R. Harris (Ed.) Origins of agriculture in western central Asia: an environmental-archaeological study. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, 137-142.

Specialist works

• Wilkinson, K.Ìý&ÌýKnul, M. V.,Ìý2024, Mapping the Palaeolithic in England: The English Palaeolithic: archaeology with a difference. Historic England, 16.

Journal papers (since 2010)

• Gill, J.,ÌýAshton, N.,ÌýWilkinson, K., Gasparyan, B. & Adler, D., 2025, The shape of technology to come: an examination of evolutionary relationships between bifacial and core technologies at the Lower–Middle Palaeolithic boundary across regions of Europe, Journal of Human Evolution 205, 103702.

• D.S. Adler, V.L. Cullen, K.N. Wilkinson, B. Gasparyan, N. Tushabramishvili, P. Griffith, C. Mallol, J.P. Gill, T.Z. Kovach, S. Blockley, P. Glauberman, V.C. Smith (2025) Not by chemistry alone: Tephrostratigraphy, correlation, and context at two Palaeolithic sites in the southern Caucasus and Armenian Highlands, Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 356, 109292 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.10929Ìý
• Kovach, T.Z., Petrosyan, A. Wilkinson, K.N., Raczynski-Henk, Y, Rodrigues, K, Frahm, E, Beverly, E, Gill, J.P., Sherriff, J.E., Gasparyan, B, Avetisyan, H.G, Gnuni, A.V., Adler, D.S. (2025) Contextualizing the Upper Paleolithic of the Armenian Highlands: New data from Solak-1, central Armenia. Journal of Human Evolution Vol 199, Feb. 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103632Ìý
• Wilkinson, K.N., Allué, E., Armitage, S.J., van Arsdale, A., Bar-Oz, G., Brittingham, A., Gasparyan, B., Gill, J., Glauberman, P., Higham, T.F.G., Frahm, E., Kovach, T., Lukich, V., Mallol, C., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Rey Rodriguez, I., Sherriff, J.E., Srivastava, A., Weissbrod, L., Yeshurun, R., Adler, D.S. (2025) The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia).ÌýQuaternary Environments and HumansÌý3, 100054.Ìý.Ìý

• Rey-Rodriguez, I.,ÌýGamarra, B.,ÌýArnaud, J.,ÌýGolovanov, S.,ÌýKandel, A.,ÌýGasparyan, B.,ÌýWilkinson, K.,ÌýAdler, D.Ìý&ÌýWeissbrod, L.,Ìý2024, Climatic variability in the Armenian Highlands as the backdrop to hominin population dynamics 50-25 ka.ÌýPalaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 648, 112285.

• Sherriff, J.E., Wilkinson, K.N., Harding, P., Hawkins, H., Timms, R.G.O., Adler, D.S., Beverly, E.J., Blockley, S.P.E., Gasparyan, B., Manning, C.J., Mark, D., Nahapetyan, S., Preece, K.J. (2022) Middle Pleistocene environments, landscapes and tephrostratigraphy of the Armenian Highlands: evidence from Bird Farm 1, Hrazdan Valley. Journal of Quaternary Science 37, 6–27. .
• Gill, J.P., Adler, D.S., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Frahm, E., Sherriff, J.E., Wilkinson, K.N., Gasparyan, b. (2022). The Techno-typological and 3D-GM Analysis of Hatis-1: a Late Acheulian Open-Air Site on the Hrazdan-Kotayk Plateau, Armenia. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 4, 29. .
• Frahm, E., Martirosyan-Olshansky, K., Sherriff, J.E., Wilkinson, K.N., Glauberman, P., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Gasparyan, B., Adler, D.S. (2021) Geochemical changes in obsidian outcrops with elevation at Hatis volcano (Armenia) and corresponding artifacts from Nor Geghi 1. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38, 103097. .
• Cullen, V.L., Smith, V.C., Tushabramishvili, N., Mallol, C., Dee, M., Wilkinson, K.N., Adler, D.S. (2021) A revised AMS and tephra chronology for the Late Middle to Early Upper Paleolithic occupation of Ortvale Klde, Republic of Georgia. Journal of Human Evolution 151, 102908. .
• Frahm, E., Owen Jones, C., Corolla, M.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Sherriff, J.E., Gasparyan, N. and Adler, D.E. (2020) Comparing Lower and Middle Palaeolithic lithic procurement behaviors within the Hrazdan basin of central Armenia.ÌýJournal of Archaeological Science: ReportsÌý32, 102389.Ìý.
• Glauberman, P., Gasparyan, B., Sherriff, J.E.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Li, B., Knul, M.V., Brittingham, A., Hren, M.T., Arakelyan, D., Raczynsky-Henk, Y., Haydosyan, H. and Adler, D.S. (2020) Barozh 12: formation processes of a late Middle Paleolithic open-air site in western Armenia.ÌýQuaternary Science ReviewsÌý236, 106276.Ìý.
• Brittingham, A., Hren, M.T., Hartman, G.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Mallol, C., Gasparyan, B. and Adler, D.S. (2019) .ÌýNature: Scientific ReportsÌý9Ìý(1), 15368. .
• Sherriff, J. E.,ÌýWilkinson, K. N., Adler, D. S., Arakelyan, D., Beverly, E. J., Blockley, S.P.E., Gasparyan, B., Mark, D. F., Meliksetyan, K., Nahapetyan, S., Preece, K. J. and Timms, R.G.O. (2019) Pleistocene volcanism and the geomorphological record of the Hrazdan Basin, central Armenia: linking landscape dynamics and Palaeolithic occupation.ÌýQuaternary Science ReviewsÌý226, 105994.Ìý.
• Bailiff, I.K., Jankowski, N., Snape, L.M., Gerrard, C.M., Gutiérrez, A. andÌýWilkinson, K.N.Ìý(2018) .ÌýWater HistoryÌý10, 73-84.Ìý.
• Frahm, E., Sherriff, J.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Beverly, E.J., Adler, D.S. and Gasparyan, B. (2017) Ptghni: A new obsidian source in the Hrazdan River basin, Armenia.ÌýJournal of Archaeological Science ReportsÌý14, 44-64.Ìý.
• Lawrence, D., Philip, G.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Buylaert, J.P., Murray. A.S., Thompson. W. and Wilkinson, T.J. (2017) Regional power and local ecologies: Accumulated population trends and human impacts in the northern Fertile Crescent.ÌýQuaternary InternationalÌý437, 60-81.Ìý.
• Frahm, E., Feinberg, J.M., Schmidt-Magee, B.A.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Gasparyan, B., Yeritsyan, B. and Adler, D.S. (2016) Middle Palaeolithic toolstone procurement behaviors at Lusakert Cave 1, Hrazdan Valley, Armenia.ÌýJournal of Human EvolutionÌý91, 73-92.Ìý.
• Hewlett, D., Harding, L., Munro, T., Terradillos, A. andÌýWilkinson, K.N.Ìý(2016) .ÌýLandscape and Urban PlanningÌý158, 185-201.Ìý.
• Bailiff, I.K., Gerrard, C.M., Gutiérrez, A., Snape-Kennedy, L.M. andÌýWilkinson, K.N.Ìý(2015) Luminescence dating of irrigation systems: Application to a qanat in Aragón, Spain.ÌýQuaternary GeochronologyÌý30, 452-459.Ìý.
• Glauberman, P., Gasparyan, B.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Frahm, E., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Haydosyan, H., Arakelyan, D., Karapetyan, S., Nahapetyan, S. and Adler, D.S. (2015) Introducing Barozh 12: a Middle Palaeolithic open-air site on the Edge of the Ararat Depression, Armenia. ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern StudiesÌý9Ìý(2), 7-20.
• Adler, D.S.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Blockley, S.P.E., Mark, D.F., Pinhasi, R., Schmidt-Magee, B.A, Yeritsyan, B., Nahapetyan, S., Mallol, C., Berna, F., Glauberman, P.J., Raczynski-Henk, Y., Wales, N., Cullen, V.L., Frahm, E., Jöris, O., Macloud, A., Smith, V.C. and Gasparian. B. (2014) Early Levallois Technology and the Transition from the Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in the Southern Caucasus.ÌýScienceÌý345, 1609-1613. .
• Frahm, E., Feinberg, J.M., Schmidt-Magee, B.A.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Gasparyan, B., Yeritsyan, B., Karapetian, S., Meliksetian, K., Muth, M.J. and Adler, D.S. (2014) Sourcing geochemically identical obsidian: multiscalar magnetic variations in the Gutansar volcanic complex and implications for Palaeolithic research in Armenia.ÌýJournal of Archaeological ScienceÌý47, 164-178.Ìý.
• Pinhasi, R., Meshveliani, T., Matskevich, Z., Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Miller, C.E.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Lordkipanidze, D., Jakeli, N., Kvavadze, E., Higham, T.F.G. and Belfer-Cohen, A. (2014) .ÌýPLoS ONEÌý9(10): e111271. .
• Vincke, D., Miller, R., Stassart, E., Otte, M., Dardenne, P. Collins, M.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Stewart, J., Baeten, V., Fernández Pierna, J.A. (2014) Analysis of collagen preservation in bones recovered in archaeological contexts using NIR hyperspectral Imaging.ÌýTalantaÌý125, 181-188.Ìý.
• Areshian, G.E., Gasparyan, B., Avetisyan, P.S., Pinhasi, R.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Smith, A., Hovsepyan, R. and Zardaryan, D. (2012) The Chalcolithic of the Near East and south-eastern Europe: discoveries and new perspectives from the cave complex Areni-1, Armenia.ÌýAntiquityÌý86, 115–130.Ìý.
• Bar-Oz, G. Weissbrod, L., Gasparian, B., Nahapetyan, S.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N.Ìýand Pinhasi, R. (2012) Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of a high-altitude Upper Pleistocene faunal sequence from Hovk-1 Cave, Armenia.ÌýJournal of Archaeological ScienceÌý39, 2452–2463.Ìý.
• Wilkinson, K.N., Gasparian, B., Pinhasi, R., Avetisyan, P., Hovsepyan, R., Zardaryan, D., Areshian, G., Bar-Oz, G. and Smith, A. (2012) Areni-1 Cave, Armenia: a Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age settlement and ritual site in the Southern Caucasus.ÌýJournal of Field ArchaeologyÌý37, 18-31.Ìý.
• Pinhasi, R., Gasparian, B. Nahapetyan, S. Bar-Oz, G., Weissbrod, L., Bruch, A., Hovsepyan, R. andÌýWilkinson, K.N. (2011) Middle Palaeolithic human occupation of the high altitude region of Hovk-1, Armenia.ÌýQuaternary Science ReviewsÌý30, 3846-3857.Ìý.
• Llobera, M.,ÌýWilkinson, K.N., Weiss, M.-C., Flaming, R.J., Marini, N.A.F.ÌýÌýand Mazet, S. (2010) Into theÌýMaquis: methodological and interpretational challenges in surveying La Balagne, Northwest Corsica.ÌýJournal of Mediterranean ArchaeologyÌý23, 169-196.Ìý.