We pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Ron Pinhasi to replace Dr Elizabeth Twohig as a prehistorian in the Department. Dr Pinhasi is a graduate of Cambridge University and formerly lectured in the University of Roehampton. His research interests include the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Transcaucasus, the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe, and the evolution and dispersal of early Holocene populations. He also works on variability in human growth and development in past populations in relation to nutritional and infectious disease, as well as epidemiological, biomolecular, and morphological analysis of the origin and spread of leprosy and tuberculosis
