Panagiotis Karkanas

Research in South Africa produced high-resolution understanding of timing and intensity of climatic oscillations over the last 400,000 years, including new estimates for the degree of sea level rise during MIS 11, a period of global warming analogous to future climate change. Research in the eastern Mediterranean traces hominin dispersal into this cross-roads region, adding insight into the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans and the later dispersal of agriculture. Has introduced new rigor in the application of archaeological sciences to classical archaeology.