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Contact Details
James Steele
Professor of Archaeology
UCL Institute of Archaeology
- Tel: 020 7679 4773
- Ext: 24773
- j.steele@ucl.ac.uk
- Room 604, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY, UK
Human Evolution Interest
My research focuses on the evolution of speech, and on large-scale human
population dispersals. I am currently working on experimental
approaches to cultural transmission, and am collaborating on models of
population dispersal and innovation diffusion in several case studies.