Chris O Hunt

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ID	134688
NAME	Chris O Hunt
GIVEN NAMES	Chris
FAMILY NAME	O Hunt
SIGNATURE	HUNT C O
AFFILIATIONS	Liverpool John Moores University
ORCID	0000-0003-0330-8871
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	93
TOTAL CITATIONS	589
AUTHOR COUNT	93
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1935
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	14

Seasonality from Mg/Ca Ratios of Prehistoric Shellfish Exploitation ( Patella caerulea Linnaeus, 1758) at the Haua Fteah (Libya, North Africa)
Open AccessRosa Arniz-Mateos, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2026
Mollusc shells, commonly preserved in archaeological records worldwide, capture high-resolution, sub-annual environmental information at local scales through the incorporation of chemical elements during their formation. These geochemical signals can be used to infer the season of shellfish collection by past human populations. This study presents new seasonal data derived from magnesium-to-calcium (Mg/Ca) ratios in Patella caerulea Linnaeus, 175…
Conservation of the Shanidar Z Neanderthal
Open AccessLucía López-Polín, Katerina Theodoraki et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2026
Conservation of fragile and fragmented archaeological remains can be essential to their preservation and study. Here, the authors use the example of the approximately 75 000-year-old Shanidar Z Neanderthal to illustrate the importance of appropriate conservation from excavation to the laboratory, and of the detailed documentation of this process, for enabling anatomical and taphonomic research
A first report on the conservation of the Shanidar A Neanderthal
Open AccessLucía López-Polín, Katerina Theodoraki et al.ARTICLECahiers du Centre de recherches…2026
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Differentiating wild and domesticated bananas using volcaniform phytolith morphology and dimensions: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Open AccessRathnasiri Premathilake, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2025References: 1
Excavating the archives: New perspectives on the Shanidar Cave Neanderthals
Open AccessE Pomeroy, James Holman et al.ARTICLECahiers du Centre de recherches…2025Cited by: 1References: 25
En 1960, un remarquable assemblage d'ossements de quatre Néandertaliens (appelés Shanidar 4, 6, 8 et 9) fut découvert dans la grotte de Shanidar, au Kurdistan irakien. Cependant, leur fragilité et leur extraction en bloc ont engendré une perte d'information concernant les positions relatives des squelettes et la chronologie de leur dépôt. Ralph Solecki, qui a dirigé les fouilles, a décrit d'autres restes humains laissés dans le mur est adjacent à…
“Somebody Touched Me”: Disidentification, Conversion, and the Promise of Queer Transformation in James Baldwin’s Fiction
Chris O Hunt, Christopher HuntARTICLEBlack Theology2023
Through an examination of The Amen Corner and Just Above My Head, this essay explores James Baldwin’s disidentification with Christian conversion. According to queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz, to disidentify with an object is not to embrace (identify) or reject (counteridentify) a phenomenon, but it is a “working on, with, and against a cultural form.” In The Amen Corner Baldwin, to borrow the language of Muñoz, “transfigures” conversion from s…
Shanidar et ses fleurs? Reflections on the palynology of the Neanderthal ‘Flower Burial’ hypothesis
Open AccessChris O Hunt, E Pomeroy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2023Cited by: 6References: 10
Pollen clumps associated with the skeleton of the Shanidar 4 Neanderthal were interpreted by the excavator as evidence for a purposeful burial with flowers. This was one of several findings from Shanidar Cave that helped to shape modern perceptions of Neanderthals as sharing empathic characteristics with Middle Palaeolithic Homo sapiens (modern humans). Here the available evidence is reviewed critically from a palynological viewpoint. It seems li…
Cooking in caves: Palaeolithic carbonised plant food remains from Franchthi and Shanidar
Open AccessCeren Kabukcu, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023Cited by: 17References: 47
Research on Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer diet has focused on the consumption of animals. Evidence for the use of plant foods is comparatively limited but is rapidly expanding. The authors present an analysis of carbonised macro-remains of processed plants from Franchthi Cave in the Aegean Basin and Shanidar Cave in the north-west Zagros Mountains. Microscopic examination of the charred food remains reveals the use of pounded pulses as a common in…
Le Moustérien du Zagros: Une vision synthétique à partir de la grotte de Shanidar
Open AccessTim Reynolds, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2022
The Lonely Letters
Chris O HuntARTICLEJournal of Africana Religions2022
Ashon Crawley's ground-breaking work, The Lonely Letters, is an exercise in “thinking with” Black life, or, to be more specific, the “lifeworlds of Blackpentecostals” (10). According to Crawley, Black life offers an “alternative to” (142) Western epistemology and its particular genre of the human being, the individual and rational subject (27–28). The Lonely Letters, in thinking through and with Black life, challenges the reader to (re)imagine re…
Unconscionability in the Supreme Court of Canada: Uber Technologies Inc. V Heller
Open AccessChris O Hunt, Chris HuntARTICLEThe Cambridge Law Journal2021
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Floodwater farming and quarrying at Jabal Hamra Arlbieg in the Jordanian desert: Economic support for the classical period Faynan Orefield
Open AccessHannah Friedman, Russell B Adams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021References: 17
Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave
Open AccessE Pomeroy, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2020
Mortuary behavior (activities concerning dead conspecifics) is one of many traits that were previously widely considered to have been uniquely human, but on which perspectives have changed markedly in recent years. Theoretical approaches to hominin mortuary activity and its evolution have undergone major revision, and advances in diverse archeological and paleoanthropological methods have brought new ways of identifying behaviors such as intentio…
New Neanderthal remains associated with the 'flower burial' at Shanidar Cave
Open AccessE Pomeroy, Paul Bennett et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2020Cited by: 37References: 34
Annual Growth Patterns and Interspecimen Variability in Mg/Ca Records of Archaeological Ostrea edulis (European Oyster) from the Late Mesolithic Site of Conors Island
Open AccessNiklas Hausmann, H K Robson et al.ARTICLEOpen Quaternary2019Cited by: 3References: 56
Annual growth patterns in marine mollusc shells are valuable indicators of the condition of marine ecology through time. In archaeological contexts, the mollusc’s time of death (i.e. the last season of growth) is an indicator of human exploitation patterns throughout the year, enabling the reconstruction of when and how often gathering occurred as well as when sites were occupied. Both pieces of information, growth rate and season of death, are v…
A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Environmental Change in the Vicinity of the North Bay Outlet of Pro-Glacial Lake Algonquin
Open AccessRyan J Rabett, A J E Pryor et al.ARTICLEOpen Quaternary2019Cited by: 1References: 79
We present a multi-proxy study of environmental conditions during and after the recessional phases of pro-glacial Lake Algonquin in the vicinity of the North Bay outlet, Great Lakes Basin. Data presented comes from a new sedimentary profile obtained from the Balsam Creek kettle lake c. 34 km north-east of the city of North Bay. This site lies close to the north-east margin of the maximum extent of the post-Algonquin lake sequence, which drained t…
Sediment micromorphology and site formation processes during the Middle to Later Stone Ages at the Haua Fteah Cave, Cyrenaica, Libya
Open AccessRaelene Inglis, C French et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2018
Understanding the timing, conditions, and characteristics of the Middle to Later Stone Age (MSA/LSA) transition in North Africa is critical for debates regarding the evolution and past population dynamics of Homo sapiens , especially their dispersals within, out of, and back into, Africa. As with many cultural transitions during the Palaeolithic, our understanding is based predominantly on archaeological and paleoenvironmental records preserved w…
Pollen taphonomy of cave sediments: What does the pollen record in caves tell us about external environments and how do we assess its reliability
Open AccessChris O Hunt, Marta FiacconiARTICLEQuaternary International2018
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Open AccessChris O Hunt, Andy J HowardARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018
Water and cosmology in the prehistoric Maltese world: Fault control on the hydrogeology of Ġgantija, Gozo (Maltese Islands)
Open AccessAlastair Ruffell, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Cited by: 1References: 6
Mollusk carbonate thermal behaviour and its implications in understanding prehistoric fire events in shell middens
Open AccessStefania Milano, Susanne Lindauer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2018Cited by: 4References: 15
Shanidar Cave and the Baradostian, a Zagros Aurignacian industry
Open AccessTim Reynolds, Lucy Farr et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2018Cited by: 14References: 38
The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) — Optical dating of early human occupation during Marine Isotope Stages 4, 5 and 6
Open AccessZenobia Jacobs, Bo Li et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2017
The ‘cultured rainforests’ of Borneo
Open AccessG Barker, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2017
An incised shell object from Baradostian (Early Upper Palaeolithic) layers in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
Open AccessChris O Hunt, Evan Hill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Cited by: 4References: 15

The Joint-Stock Company in England, 1830-1844
C Hunt, Chris O HuntARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1935Cited by: 4
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey VII: An Interim Classification and Functional Analysis of Ancient Wall Technology and Land Use
Open AccessD D Gilbertson, Peter Hayes et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1984Cited by: 17References: 16
Interpretations of ancient wall-technologies in the Libyan pre-desert are briefly reviewed. The forms, patterns, distributions and geological/geomorphic/hydrologic relationships of walls in a series of study areas are described and interpreted with the aid of a new, non-genetic, ‘wall-technology’ classification. The remarkable hydrological and geomorphic insights of their constructors are clear. Several wall types are shown to have been primarily…
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey VIII: Image Analysis of Landsat Satellite data for Archaeological and Environmental Surveys
Open AccessJ E Dorsett, D D Gilbertson et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1984Cited by: 12References: 2
Digital image data from the Landsat satellite Multispectral scanner have been analysed using a Dipex Image Processor. The image data were classified by a clustering algorithm to produce a thematic map for trial use in areas of archaeological interest. The archaeological, pedological, geomorphic and geological importance of these new data are discussed in the context of ground data obtained during the UNESCO April 1984 field season
Kirkhead Cave: Biostratigraphy and Magnetostratigraphy
Open AccessS J GALE, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry1984Cited by: 3References: 12
Existing hypotheses concerning the speed and timing of the recolonisation of Britain by man after the last glaciation have largely been developed in the absence of securely‐dated Later Upper Palaeolithic (LUP) sites in the marginal areas of colonisation. In Kirkhead Cave, the most important LUP site in northern England, palynological, molluscan and palaeomagnetic evidence indicate that LUP occupation did not commence until mid‐pollen zone III of …
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey IX: Anhydrite and limestone karst in the Tripolitanian pre-desert
Open AccessChris O Hunt, S J GALE et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1985Cited by: 7References: 2
Active karst landforms (poljes, dolines, sinkholes, caves and rillenkarren) and hydration and weathering phenomena on anhydrite and limestone are described from the Tripolitanian pre-desert. Rainfall in the study area is considerably less than the 250–300 mm a −1 previously suggested as the minimum precipitation threshold for the development of karst landforms. These findings suggest that the presence of karst land-forms in an arid region cannot …
The Stratigraphy of Kirkhead Cave, an Upper Palaeolithic Site in Northern England
Open AccessStephen Gale, Stephen J Gale et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…1985Cited by: 4References: 28
The sediments of Kirkhead Cave, a truncated phreatic conduit in the Morecambe Bay karst of northern England, have been investigated by scanning electron microscopic, granulometric, petrographic, palynologic and stratigraphic methods. These show that almost all the deposits in the cave are glacigenic sediments, reworked into the cave by a variety of transporting agencies. Investigation of the deposits by radiometric, magnetostratigraphic and biost…
Ulvs Xii: The Infill Sequence and Water-carrying Capacity of an Ancient Irrigation Channel, Wadi Gobbeen, Tripolitania
Open AccessS J GALE, D D Gilbertson et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1986Cited by: 5References: 9
Sediments of ?Pleistocene and Holocene age infilling an ancient irrigation channel adjacent to the Wadi Gobbeen in Tripolitania are described. The irrigation channel is part of a Romano-Libyan floodwater-farming system. Techniques for estimating the hydrological characteristics of floodwater-farming systems are applied to the irrigation channel to provide an indication of the water-carrying capacity of ancient floodwater-farming systems in the Li…
Ulvs Xiii: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Farming in the Wadi Mansur, Tripolitania
Open AccessChris O Hunt, David Mattingly et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1986Cited by: 13References: 18
This article describes the interdisciplinary methods developed by the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey in connection with the study of ancient agriculture. These methods combine the techniques of settlement archaeology with those of the earth sciences and palaeoeconomics. The interactive nature of the enquiry does not resolve all the questions, but it can help to re-shape those questions and suggest new lines of enquiry. The example of the Wadi Mansu…
Prehistoric Environment and Settlement in the Azraq Basin: An Interim Report on the 1985 Excavation Season
Andrew Garrard, Alison Betts et al.ARTICLELevant1987
The Azraq Project was begun in 1975 in order to learn more of the history of environment, settlement and subsistence in the presently arid zone of South-West Asia during the late Glacial and early Holocene—the period crucial to the beginnings of food production. In 1975 a survey was made of fifteen localitites around the Azraq Basin and the area was found to be rich in sites of late Acheulian to Neolithic date. Evidence was also found for a large…
Ulvs Xvii: Palaeoecology and Agriculture of an Abandonment Phase at Gasr Mm 10, Wadi Mimoun, Tripolitania
Open AccessChris O Hunt, D D Gilbertson et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1987Cited by: 8References: 19
This study documents the sediments, pollen, seeds, molluscs, vertebrates and mineral magnetism of deposits found in an abandoned water supply system at gasr Mm 10 in the Wadi Mimoun in the pre-desert of Tripolitania. These new data suggest (1) at or close to an episode of probable abandonment of that gasr , the growth of cereals (and perhaps general agricultural activity) still occurred on the wadi catchment upstream of the gasr , and (2) the veg…
Ulvs Xviii: The Quaternary Geomorphology and Calcretes of the Area around Gasr Banat in the Pre-desert of Tripolitania
Open AccessD D Gilbertson, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1987Cited by: 8References: 17
This paper describes the Quaternary geology of the area around Gasr Banat which lies near the confluence of the Wadis N'f'd and N'fed in the pre-desert of Tripolitania. The site is of interest because of its aridity, the notable archaeological remains that occur in the region and the opportunity it offered to map the surficial deposits of an area otherwise largely unknown. The survey revealed that two Pleistocene cobble and gravel units laid down…
Ulvs Xix: A Reconnaissance Survey of the Cenozoic Geomorphology of the Wadi Merdum, Beni Ulid, in the Libyan Pre-desert
Open AccessD D Gilbertson, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1988Cited by: 8References: 23
A geological reconnaissance of the Beni Ulid — Wadi Merdum region of the pre-desert of Tripolitania shows that at least twenty, stratigraphically distinct geomorphic events can be recognised from field exposures, field mapping and the analysis of Spacelab metric camera photography. The earliest events are provisionally attributed to the early Cenozoic and include uplift, tilting, faulting, the formation of karstic and karst-tectonic landforms, an…
Environment and subsistence during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Azraq Basin
Andrew Garrard, Andrew N Garrard et al.ARTICLEPaléorient1988Cited by: 26
Ce rapport résume les résultats des recherches sur le paléoenvironnement et la paléosubsistance dans le bassin ďAzraq en Jordanie centre est. Des études géomorphologiques et sédimentologiques de séquences fluviales, éoliennes, lacustres datées, suggèrent une alternance d'épisodes humides et secs entre 25 000 et 14 500 P.B. et, postérieurement, des conditions arides. L'orge et le blé domestiqués ont été trouvés dans des contextes PPNB ancien et mo…
The Unesco Libyan Valleys Survey XXI: Geomorphological Studies of the Romano-Libyan Farm, its Floodwater Control Structures and Weathered Building Stone at Site Lm4, at the Confluence of Wadi el Amud …
Open AccessD D Gilbertson, Chris O HuntARTICLELibyan Studies1990Cited by: 1References: 10
The Romano-Libyan farm Lm4 includes a ‘barrage’, water control walls and farm buildings. These were built as part of an agro-hydrological farm system at the confluence of the Wadi el Amud and the Wadi Umm el Bagul in the Libyan pre-desert. The farm appears to have functioned in a geomorphological environment not dissimilar to that which prevails today — with occasional rain storms producing overland flow and floods interrupting a dominance of aeo…
The Description and Classification of Grain Size Data from Ancient and Modern Shoreline Sands at Lepcis Magna using Log Skew Laplace Distributions
Open AccessN R J Fieller, Nick Fieller et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1990Cited by: 1References: 14
The description and analysis of particle size distributions using log skew Laplace distributions is a new technique designed to overcome various mathematical and computational problems associated with other approaches. This paper presents an application of the method. In particular, it describes fitting log skew Laplace distributions to modern and ancient shoreline sands from Lepcis Magna (near Horns), Tripolitania, with the purpose of discrimina…
Ulvs Xxii: Crustose Lichen Affecting the Geological Interpretation of Digital Landsat Imagery of the Tripolitanian Pre-desert
Open AccessF B Pyatt, FB Pyatt et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1990References: 8
White surface encrustations developing on basalt which had the same ‘reflectance signature’ on digital Landsat imagery as that from the limestone terrain in the Tripolitanian pre-desert are shown at the Wadi Gobbeen to be the thalli of the crustose lichen of the genus Aspicilia . The reproductive structures and ascospores of the lichen are described. The lichen is seen to be aiding the weathering and disintegration of the basalt cobbles. The abse…
The Stratigraphy of Kirkhead Cave, an Upper Palaeolithic Site in Northern England: Discussion
Open AccessS J GALE, Chris O HuntARTICLEProceedings of the Prehistoric…1990References: 14
Volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society contained two articles (Salisbury 1986; Tipping 1986) critical of our paper ‘The stratigraphy of Kirkhead Cave, an upper palaeolithic site in northern England’ (Gale and Hunt 1985). Here we reply. Before dealing with the criticisms made by Salisbury, we correct the factual errors in his paper. 1. Bolton and Morris ‘... excavated through, and ultimately removed some 5 to 7 metres of cave eart…
Environment, soils and early agriculture in Apennine Central Italy
C Hunt, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology1990Cited by: 3References: 4
Many studies of early agriculture and soils in Europe and in Italy, in particular, concentrated on the prime soils; relatively little attention has been given to more marginal zones. Broad comparisons have often been made between modern soils and the distributions of sites and little attention has been paid to indicators of pedological change, such as snails and pollen. Recent archaeological and environmental research in the valley of Gubbio (Umb…
Petriolo III South: Implications for the Transition to Agriculture in Tuscany
R E Donahue, D B Burroni et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1992Cited by: 3
Ulvs Xxvi: Sedimentological and Palynological Studies of Holocene Environmental Changes from a Plateau Basin Infill Sequence at Grerat D'nar Salem, near Beni Ulid, in the Tripolitanian Pre-desert
Open AccessD D Gilbertson, Chris O Hunt et al.ARTICLELibyan Studies1993Cited by: 2References: 33
This paper describes an integrated series of sedimentological and palynological studies of the arenaceous deposits which infill the large alluvial basin of Grerat D'nar Salem, which is located on a limestone plateau in the semi-arid pre-desert of Tripolitania north-west of the town of Beni Ulid. This research shows that in the early and middle Holocene this depression was occupied by a large semi-permanent or permanent water body which was surrou…
Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk 1989–92
Open AccessNick Ashton, N M Ashton et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Geological Society1994
Preliminary results are presented from three seasons' work at the Lower Palaeolithic site at Barnham. The complex stratigraphy is described and a provisional interpretation given, which suggests that the archaeological deposits date to a warm phase after the Anglian (Middle Pleistocene) cold stage. A fauna1 assemblage from the deposits is described, providing an environmental and biostratigraphic context for the site. Further geochronological con…
The Wadi Faynan Project, Southern Jordan: A Preliminary Report on Geomorphology and Landscape Archaeology
G Barker, G W Barker et al.ARTICLELevant1997
The Wadi Faynan Project of the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History (BIAAH) has as its principal objective the provision of a detailed case study in the relationship between environmental change and human history in the arid zone, from prehistory to the present day. This report describes the preliminary findings of an initial campaign of fieldwork in geomorphology and landscape archaeology conducted by an inter-disciplinary team…
Fieldwork in geography teaching: A critical review of the literature and approaches
Martin Kent, David D Gilbertson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Geography in Higher…1997
Virtually all lecturers in geography recognise the importance of fieldwork as a vital mode of teaching in the subject. This paper draws on material produced as part of a HEFCE review of teaching and learning in the field and assesses the implications of recent changes in higher education for field studies in geography. The literature on the development of, and recent changes in, fieldwork practice is reviewed and assumptions about appropriate for…
Quaternary deposits in the Maltese Islands: A microcosm of environmental change in Mediterranean lands
Open AccessChris O HuntARTICLEGeoJournal1997Cited by: 2
Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: The Second Season of Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (1997)
G Barker, G W Barker et al.ARTICLELevant1998
This report describes the second season of fieldwork by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers integrating geomorphological, palaeoecological, archaeological and hydrological studies to construct a model of landscape development for the past 10,000 years in the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan. Geomorphological fieldwork has provided further understanding of the sedimentary fills of the survey area, and underlined the importanc…