Palaeoclimate and hominin dispersals through deserts

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Today the deserts of the Sahara, Arabia, and Iran are dry and grey.

However, in this fascinating lecture, Dr Paul S. Breeze (Lecturer in Geography at King's College London) will discuss how integrated palaeostographic, paleontological and archaeological research and fieldwork, particularly in Arabia, has highlighted that past climate change has dramatically altered these environments time and again.

Dr Breeze will also discuss discoveries made using this multidisciplinary approach to precisely target fieldwork, which over the past decade has uncovered thousands of ancient water sources and past greening, the occupations of these deserts by Homo sapiens and other hominins, and the impact of past climate change events on our species' early movements outside Africa.

This lecture will be held on Tuesday 12 March at 18:30 in the Wallace Lecture Theatre (Room 0.13), Main Building.

Our public lectures are free events that attract a diverse audience including the public, secondary school pupils and professionals. The series aims to open up areas of interest in the Earth and environmental sciences and present new research in this area to the public.