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I am the Head of Dept. and Professor in the Archaeology Dept at La Trobe University. I run several field schools and excavations focusing on Human Origins. This includes excavations at Taung, the types site for Australopithecus africanus, the Amanzi Springs Acheulian site in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and the Australian Palaeoanthropology and Geoarchaeology Field School at the Drimolen Hominin Site in South Africa. I am also the director of the Palaeoscience Laboratories at LTU, which includes The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory (TAAL) and the Human Evolution and Karst Landscapes Lab (HEkLL). These laboratories conduct archaeological geophysics (archaeomagnetism, palaeomagnetism, environmental magnetism, gradiometry, ground penetrating radar, pXRF) and geoarchaeological analysis (archaeomagnetism, environmental magnetism, petrography, micromorphology). HEkLL is particularly focused on hominin use of past landscapes and migration, while TAAL works on projects ranging from Historical Archaeology (19th C. Melbourne Bricks) to dating early hominins with magnetostratigraphy (~5 Ma). The lab is currently working with a number of labs around the world (UK, NZ, Sweden, Spain) to construct the first comprehensive SE Australian Archaeomagnetic Dating Reference Curve (SEAARC) and to understand past geomagnetic Field behaviour of the Earth in Australia and its region.
I was an Australian Research Council Research Fellow for 9 years (2008-2016). Between 2008 and 2012 he had an ARC Australian Research Fellowship working on human origins in Yunnan Province, China. Since then I have continued working in China where he runs the geology component of a project looking at H. erectus sites in Guangxi Province (with Chris Bae, University of Hawaii, and the Gunagxi Museum of Nationalities). From 2012 to 2016 I was an ARC Future Fellowship that builds on his 20 years experince working on the archaeology and hominin sites of South Africa (building a new chronological framework to access regional variability in mid-Pleistocene archaeological, palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic data from Africa).
I obtained his PhD at the University of Liverpool Geomagnetism Laboratory and Dept. Archaeology in 2003 working on a magnetostratigraphy of South African early hominin palaeocaves with Dr Alf Latham and Prof. John Shaw. I remain an Honorary Research Fellow of the Geomagnetism Laboratory at Liverpool through the School of Environmental Sciences. I have worked in South Africa since 1997 and has a wide ranging background in the excavation of palaeolithic and fossil bearing caves, palaeoanthropology, geoarchaeology, speleology, geochronology, karst geology, archaeological geophysics, & archaeomagentism (inc. Palaeomagnetism, Mineral [Rock] Magnetism & Environmental Magnetism). My work has mainly focused on the dating of South Africa’s hominin sites through the palaeomagnetic analysis of cave sediments and speleothem in conjunction with other dating methods (U-Pb, ESR). I have additionally worked on sites and deposits in the UK, Kenya, Bulgaria, China, Ethiopia, the Galapagos and Australia ranging between the Pliocene and the Holocene. In 2003-2004 I participated in the AARCH (Archaeomagnetic Applications for the Rescue of Cultural Heritage) network of European Laboratories run by Dr Cathy Batt and Prof Don Tarling. I spent his year with Prof. Mary Kovacheva in the geomagnetism laboratory at the Geophysical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria working on the Archaeomagnetic Dating of a series of Thracian and Mediaeval ovens. Since 2005 he has lived in Australia and has continued to work on Archaeomagnetic Dating work in Bulgaria, S. Africa and Australia, the magnetostratigraphic dating of African hominin sites and the development of environmental and rock magnetic methods for understanding archaeological cave sites, fire use and stone tool heat treatment. Iset up TAAL at LTU in 2011. He is an active caver and climber and has been so since I was 17, participating in caving expeditions all over the world.
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EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGYno. 2 (2024): e22018-e22018
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE-REPORTS (2024): 104393
SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCEno. 3-4 (2024)
Emma M. Finestone,Thomas W. Plummer,Thomas H. Vincent,Scott A. Blumenthal,Peter W. Ditchfield,Laura C. Bishop,James S. Oliver,Andy I.R. Herries, Christopher Vere Palfery,Timothy P. Lane, Elizabeth McGuire,Jonathan S. Reeves,
Journal of human evolution (2023): 103403-103403
Andy I.R. Herries,Giovanni Boschian, Ashleigh Murzsewski,Tom Mallett,Brian Armstrong,Stephanie Baker
Encyclopedia of earth sciencespp.1-6, (2023)
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Journal of human evolution (2023): 103334-103334
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2023): 103-103
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Nature ecology & evolutionno. 12 (2023): 1971-1977
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