My interdisciplinary research combines exploratory fieldwork, material culture and palaeoenvironmental studies, and quantitative analyses with wider examination of  palaeoanthropological records to tackle questions such as:

Why did Late Acheulean populations survive longest in South Asia?

When did Homo sapiens first expand into monsoonal Asia and how did they adapt to new ecologies?

Where did Neanderthals colonise the semi-arid landscapes of South-West Asia and how did they replace Homo sapiens?

What characterises and explains changes between the Middle and Later Stone Age in eastern Africa?

Which technologies helped West African and South Asia foragers to adapt to inhabit tropical forests?

How can understanding past human activity and Pleistocene environments help us understand current and future ecological change?