Eleanor Williams
PhD student - Early human evolution in Africa
I am a PhD student at the Department of Archaeology cosupervised by Alistair Key and Andrea Manica in Zoology.
I am interested in human evolution in Africa prior to ~1 Ma. My MPhil thesis focussed on the relationship between H. erectus s.l., the Acheulean, and volcanic eruptions in eastern Africa. Subsequently, I have worked in research teams focussed on Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and West Turkana in Kenya, and published on both the African Oldowan and British Palaeolithic.
My PhD research focuses on the relationship between hominin evolution and climate/ecology across Africa prior to 1 Ma.