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Keith Wilkinson BSc PgCert PhD MIFA
Keith is the Director of ARCA and also
leads the 'Geoarchaeology' and 'Geomatics' divisions of the
organisation. Keith was trained at the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London (UCL), graduating with a BSc in 1989
and a PhD in 1993. The latter was
awarded for a thesis entitled '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
Engineering 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 1998 and has published extensively
on the earth sciences in archaeology (including, together
with Chris Stevens, a textbook on environmental archaeology
in 2003).
Research Interests
Keith's research interests outside
UK geoarchaeology include the role of humans in Quaternary
evolution of Mediterranean and Near-East 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 has undertaken geoarchaeological research
in Armenia, Bulgaria, France (mainland and Corsica), Georgia,
Greece (mainland and Crete), Libya, the Netherlands, Spain
and Syria.
Find Out More
Contact Keith
Keith's
departmental webpage
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