William Mills
I am currently a Post-Doctoral researcher on the PALaEoScot project at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. My research focusses on Late Glacial lithic technologies in association to Doggerland and the Channel River. My research focuses on three themes: Late Glacial lithic techno-complexes in the UK and their relation to Northern Europe; the Channel River and Doggerland: palaeoenvironments, river regimes, riparian corridors and site taphonomy; and Late Glacial hunter-gatherer mobility systems associated to river courses.
For my doctorate at the University of Oxford, I combined the themes of lithic technology, geoarchaeology and hunter-gatherer mobility, to build a more holistic framework around the Channel River. This enabled me to explore the influencing factors of site visibility, preservation, comparability and representation which affect the archaeology of Late Glacial SE England. Following the lithic and stratigraphic analysis of local case studies, I am considering this region’s geographic position within a much larger Channel River network using GIS.
I am currently working on similar themes of Late Glacial lithics technology, follwing post-doctoral research at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) in Germany, shifting from an eastern Doggerland persepective, it is the northermost Late Glacial perspective from Scotland.
My background is in commercial archaeology as a Senior Geoarchaeologist at the Museum of London, a field archaeologist for units in the UK, France and Spain, as well as working on numerous research excavations in Europe, North and East Africa, the Near East and India.
I also practice experimental archaeology, and I am one of the founding members, first President and current Treasurer of the Oxford University Palaeotechnology Society (OxPalTech).
Supervisors: Berit Valentin Eriksen
For my doctorate at the University of Oxford, I combined the themes of lithic technology, geoarchaeology and hunter-gatherer mobility, to build a more holistic framework around the Channel River. This enabled me to explore the influencing factors of site visibility, preservation, comparability and representation which affect the archaeology of Late Glacial SE England. Following the lithic and stratigraphic analysis of local case studies, I am considering this region’s geographic position within a much larger Channel River network using GIS.
I am currently working on similar themes of Late Glacial lithics technology, follwing post-doctoral research at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) in Germany, shifting from an eastern Doggerland persepective, it is the northermost Late Glacial perspective from Scotland.
My background is in commercial archaeology as a Senior Geoarchaeologist at the Museum of London, a field archaeologist for units in the UK, France and Spain, as well as working on numerous research excavations in Europe, North and East Africa, the Near East and India.
I also practice experimental archaeology, and I am one of the founding members, first President and current Treasurer of the Oxford University Palaeotechnology Society (OxPalTech).
Supervisors: Berit Valentin Eriksen
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Shifting from cave assemblages located hundreds of kilometres to the west and north of the study region, and focussing on nearly a century of Late Glacial archaeological research, a renewed emphasis is placed on open air-sites in Southeast England building on research commencing in the 1980’s, and along the northern tributaries to the Channel River. The thesis combines three themes for the first time in this region: the lithic (stone tool) assemblages, the fluvial record, and prehistoric mobility.
An innovative re-assessment of the lithic assemblages at local, national and Northern European scale is developed as a comparative framework for southern Britain. A compilation of multiple fluvial datasets characterising the Channel River and the regimes of its tributaries is applied to the archaeology record for the first time. By combining these two fields, new mobility and occupation models for the settlement of Southeast England are proposed. A strong connexion with the Channel River and its exceptional resources is highlighted. Cross-Channel links are examined, as is the Channel Estuary, actively flooding this resource rich region with rising sea levels, and rarely integrated in the discussion of Late Glacial archaeology for the region.
This holistic approach to the Late Glacial landscape provides a refreshed framework to assess the lithic assemblages as spatial markers of human activity within a dynamic, evolving landscape. Structured on rare high-resolution sites, multiple scales and resolutions are applied for a broader landscape discussion. This distinguishes the relevance of induvial finds, scatters, and museum archives too often relegated to the back of the archaeological discussion. The outcome is identifying patterns and strategic locations, and developing a framework for future heritage awareness and model building.
River network as well as some initial spatiotemporal renderings that enable a better understanding of the
Lateglacial (LG) North-West European lithics and techno-cultures.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS by William Mills
May, 2012
University College London (UCL), Institute of Archaeology
January, 2007
SEMINAR COORDINATION by William Mills
Talks by William Mills
Shifting from cave assemblages located hundreds of kilometres to the west and north of the study region, and focussing on nearly a century of Late Glacial archaeological research, a renewed emphasis is placed on open air-sites in Southeast England building on research commencing in the 1980’s, and along the northern tributaries to the Channel River. The thesis combines three themes for the first time in this region: the lithic (stone tool) assemblages, the fluvial record, and prehistoric mobility.
An innovative re-assessment of the lithic assemblages at local, national and Northern European scale is developed as a comparative framework for southern Britain. A compilation of multiple fluvial datasets characterising the Channel River and the regimes of its tributaries is applied to the archaeology record for the first time. By combining these two fields, new mobility and occupation models for the settlement of Southeast England are proposed. A strong connexion with the Channel River and its exceptional resources is highlighted. Cross-Channel links are examined, as is the Channel Estuary, actively flooding this resource rich region with rising sea levels, and rarely integrated in the discussion of Late Glacial archaeology for the region.
This holistic approach to the Late Glacial landscape provides a refreshed framework to assess the lithic assemblages as spatial markers of human activity within a dynamic, evolving landscape. Structured on rare high-resolution sites, multiple scales and resolutions are applied for a broader landscape discussion. This distinguishes the relevance of induvial finds, scatters, and museum archives too often relegated to the back of the archaeological discussion. The outcome is identifying patterns and strategic locations, and developing a framework for future heritage awareness and model building.
River network as well as some initial spatiotemporal renderings that enable a better understanding of the
Lateglacial (LG) North-West European lithics and techno-cultures.
May, 2012
University College London (UCL), Institute of Archaeology
January, 2007