John Gowlett

John Anthony Jamys Gowlett, FBA, FSA, FRAI, is an archaeologist. Since 2000, he has been Professor of Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Liverpool. He completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, which was awarded in 1979, before working as Senior Archaeologist to the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator from 1980 to 1987.

Gowlett studied handaxes at the Kilombe Archaeological site in Kenya for his PhD and continues to excavate there today. In the 1990s he ran excavations at the ~400,000 year old Acheulian site of Beeches Pit in Suffolk, also known for early evidence of fire use. Provided by Wikipedia
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    A contribution to studies of the Acheulean in East Africa with especial reference to Kilombe and Kariandusi
    by Gowlett, John Anthony Jamys
    Published 1979
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    Fear and flames : an investigation into the landscape level affordances of the Wildfire Package and their impact on modern human attitudes to fire and related landscapes of fear
    by Caris, A. B.
    Published 2017
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