Dr Andrew Shaw
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Andrew Shaw is a Research Fellow within Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
My interest in Palaeolithic archaeology and Quaternary science stems from my undergraduate studies at the University of Durham and subsequent MA in the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of Southampton. This led to my PhD on the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Syria carried out at the University of Durham. Subsequently, I worked at the British Museum cataloguing their Near Eastern Palaeolithic and epi-Palaeolithic collections prior to been awarded an Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to study the late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic in Lebanon and Syria at the University of Southampton. I am currently employed as research fellow working on the AHRC funded ‘Crossing the Threshold' project which is seeking to understand the evolutionary significance of the appearance of the repeated use of place by humans during the Middle Pleistocene. I have been involved in research projects focussed on the UK, northern continental Europe, Syria and Lebanon. Additionally, I have also been engaged in Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Pleistocene geoarchaeological consultancy works in the UK.