Keith is the founder and director of ARCA.
 
Keith was trained at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, graduating with a BSc in 1989, and a PhD in 1993. The latter was awarded for a thesis titled ‘The influence of local factors on palaeoenvironment and land-use: evidence from dry-valley fills in the South Downs’ and was sponsored
by the Science and E
ngineering Research Council.

 
Commercial archaeology
 
During the latter stages of his PhD research and subsequently, Keith worked for UCL's Geoarchaeological Service Facility, taking part in commercial geoarchaeological works in advance of road and pipeline construction in Canterbury and Dover, Kent, UK. In 1994 Keith moved to Cotswold Archaeological Trust (CAT) (now Cotswold Archaeology) to manage a GIS-based project examining medieval settlement and
the influence upon it of landscape factors. While at CAT, Keith set up a sub-division of that organisation, Geoarchaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Services, which undertook developer-funded geoarchaeological work for a variety of organisations based in southern England and France.
 
Academia
 
Keith moved to King Alfred's College (now the University of Winchester) in 1997, first as Lecturer and now as Reader in Environmental Archaeology. Here he set up ARCA in 2005. Keith has therefore been involved in commercial geoarchaeological and GIS projects for over 15 years, has directed such projects since
199
8 and has published extensively on the earth sciences in archaeology (including a textbook
on environmental archaeology in 2003, together with Chris Stevens).
 
Research Interests
 
Keith's research interests outside UK geoarchaeology include the role of humans in Quaternary evolution
of Mediterranean and Near-East
ern landscapes, the geoarchaeology of Palaeolithic sites in the  Transcaucasus, and the use of GIS in archaeological survey. To this end and as well as his work in the UK,
Keith h
as undertaken geoarchaeological research in Armenia, Bulgaria, France (mainland and Corsica), Georgia, Greece (mainland and Crete), Libya, the Netherlands, Spain and Syria.
 
Professional and academic Memberships
 
Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA),
Bristol and
Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (BGAS),
Briti
sh School at Athens (BSA),
European
Association of Archaeologists (EAA),
Geological Soc
iety of America (GSA),
Hampshire Field
Club,
Member of the Institute for Archaeologists (M
IfA),
Quaternary Research Association
(QRA),
Severn Estuary Levels Research Group (SELRG).

 

Dr Keith Wilkinson

BSc PgCert PhD MIFA

Director, ARCA

 

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