Faculty and researchers are engaged in a range of international projects, many of which actively encourage student participation (see e.g. the sample of recent and current Level 3 dissertations).

At the present time, ArcPal members are working in the following countries, tackling a wide range of topics from: the evolution of our species in Africa, to the effects of insularity, the spread of Bronze Age metalurgy in Europe, or the impact of sea-level change on past and present day communities – to name just a few.

AFRICA

Kenya

• Chronology of lake deposits: Lake Challa, Mount Kilimanjaro (M. Blaauw)

Libya

• Cultural transformations and environmental transitions in North African prehistory – TRANS-NAP project (R. Rabett; Director: G. Barker – University of Cambridge)

AMERICAS

Canada

• Northeast Algonquin Palaeo-Lake & Environmental Assessment project – NAPLEA (R. Rabett)

Mexico

• Depositional chronology: Lago Chalco, Mexico City (M. Blaauw)

USA

• First Irish immigrants in Lowell, Massachusetts (C. Donnelly & E. Murphy)

ASIA

Russia (Asia)

• Biocultural studies of prehistoric populations in Southern Siberia and in Samara (Europe) (E. Murphy)

• Tephra deposits in Kamchatka (M. Blaauw; G. Plunkett)

Vietnam

• Human Adaptation to Coastal Evolution – SUNDASIA project (R. Rabett, I. Bachtsevanidou Strantzali, T. Kahlert, C. Stimpson)

EUROPE

Atlantic Realm

• Excavation and Palaeoenvironmental Study of Knocknashee Hilltop Enclosure (D. Brandherm; C. McSparron)

• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: context, function and choice of early metalworking tools in Europe’s Atlantic façade (L. Boutoille)

Denmark

• Human lifeways from the end of the Mesolithic to the Viking Age in the area of Limfjord (L. van der Sluis)

Greenland

• Tephrochronology (G. Plunkett)

Iceland

• Northern Icelandic wetland sequences (M. Blaauw)

Malta & Gozo

• Fragility and Sustainability in Restricted Island Environments – FRAGSUS project (C. Malone, R. McLaughlin)

Russia (Europe)

• Bronze Age and Iron Age populations of the Volga-Don steppe region (J. Loyer)