رابن ڊينل

Robin Dennell

رڪ سنڌي 

پروفيسر رابن ڊينل 1969ع ۾ ڪيمبرج يونيورسٽي مان آرڪيالاجي ۽ اينٿروپلاجي ۾ گريجوئيشن ڪئي. جنهن بعد ساڳي يونيورسٽي مان 1977ع ۾ ڊاڪٽريٽ جي ڊگري حاصل ڪئي. پاڻ پنهنجي رٽائرمينٽ يعني 2010ع تائين آرڪيالاجي ۽ اينٿروپلاجي جي شعبي سان سلهاڙيل رهيو. ڊينل 1973ع ۾ شفيلڊ يونيورسٽي ۾ آرڪيالاجي جي موضوع تي تدريس سان لاڳاپيل رهيو. 1983ع ۾ سينئر ليڪچرار طور ذميواريون نڀايون. جڏهن ته 1995ع ۾ پروفيسر جي عهدي تي مقرر ڪيو ويو. 

رابن ڊينل پنهنجي ڪيريئر جي شروعاتي عرصي دوران آرڪيوباٽني تي کوجنا ڪئي. هن ڏکڻ ايشيا ۽ يورپ ۾ نئين پٿر دور ۾ زراعت ۽ زرعي آبادين بابت تحقيق ڪئي. هن 1981ع کان 1999ع تائين پاڪستان ۾ انساني نسل جي ارتقا متعلق مليل ثابتين ۽ قديم پٿر دور جي آبادين تي تحقيق ڪئي. برٽش آرڪيالاجيڪل مشن طرفان کيس 1988ع ۾ پاڪستان ۾ فيلڊ ڊائريڪٽر مقرر ڪيو ويو. ان دوران هن پاڪستان جي اترين علائقن خاص ڪري سون ماٿري ۾ 12 کان وڌيڪ ماڳن تي فيلڊ ريسرچ ڪئي. ڊينل برٽش اڪيڊمي جي فنڊنگ تحت 2003ع کان 2006ع تائين پاڪستان ۾ اوائلي انساني آبادين بابت کوجنا به ڪئي. آرڪيالاجي ۽ اينٿروپلاجي جي مختلف موضوعن تي سندس 7 ڪتاب ۽ 120 کان وڌيڪ تحقيقي مقالا شايع ٿي چڪا آهن.

 

ڪتاب ۽ مقالا

 

·                     Dennell, R.W. and Porr, M. (eds.) 2014. East of Africa: Southern Asia, Australia and Modern Human Origins. Cambridge University Press. 

·                     Gao Xing and Dennell, R.W. (eds.) 2014. Late Pleistocene and Palaeolithic studies in Northeast Asia. Special issue of Quaternary International. 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2014. Movius and the Line that never was. In Living in the Landscape: Essays in Honour of Graeme Barker, ed. K. Boyle, R. Rabett and C. Hunt. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monograph, pp.11-34. 

·                     Dennell, R.W. and Porr, M. 2014. The past and present of human origins in southern Asia and Australia. In Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins, ed. R.W. Dennell and M. Porr, pp. 1-7. Cambridge University Press.

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2014. East Asia and human evolution: from cradle of mankind to cul-de-sac. In Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins, ed. R.W. Dennell and M. Porr, pp. 8-20. Cambridge University Press. 3

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2014. Smoke and mirrors: the fossil record for Homo sapiens between Arabia and Australia. In Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins, ed. R.W. Dennell and M. Porr, pp. 33-50. Cambridge University Press. 

·                     Boivin, N., Fuller, D.Q., Dennell, R.W., Allaby, R. and Petraglia, M. 2013 Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene.Quaternary International 300, 32-47.

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2013 Hominins, deserts, and the colonisation and settlement of continental Asia. Quaternary International xxx, 1-9. 

·                     Dennell, R.W., Louys, J.L., O’Regan, H.J. and Wilkinson, D.M. 2013 The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives. Quaternary Science Reviews xxx, 1-10. 3

·                     Dennell, R.W. and Petraglia, M.D. 2012 The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex? Quaternary Sciences Reviews 47, 15-22. 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2004 Early Hominin Landscapes in Northern Pakistan: Investigations in the Pabbi Hills (with contributions from M. Anwar, M. Beech, R. Coard, L. Hurcombe, H. Rendell, and A. Turner). British Archaeological Reports International Series 1265: 1-454. (175 tables, 140 figures). 

This monograph completes the full publication of the primary data (fossils and stones tools between 0.8-2.2 million years old) that I and my team collected in the Pabbi Hills, Pakistan from 1986-1992 and in 1999. 

·                     Rendell, H.R., Dennell, R.W. and Halim, M. 1989. Pleistocene and Palaeolithic Investigations in the Soan Valley, Northern Pakistan. British Archaeological Reports International Series 544. (364 pp., 110 figs). This monograph presents the primary data from the Soan Valley, Pakistan from the 1981-1985 field seasons. 

Articles/chapters: 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2011 An earlier Acheulian arrival in South Asia. Science 331, 1532-1533. 

·                     Dennell, R.W., Coard, R. and Turner, A. 2008 Predators and scavengers in Early Pleistocene southern Asia. Quaternary International 192, 78-88. (Invited paper in volume to the memory of Gudrun Corvinus). 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2008 The taphonomic record of Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene landscapes in the Pabbi Hills, northern Pakistan, and its implications on the preservation of hominin remains. Quaternary International 192, 62-77. (Invited paper in volume to the memory of Gudrun Corvinus). 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 2007 “Resource-rich, stone-poor”: early hominin land use in large river systems of northern India and Pakistan. In “The Evolution and Diversity of Humans in South Asia”, ed. by M. Petraglia and B. Allchin, pp. 41-68. Springer. 

·                     Dennell R.W., Coard, R. and Turner, A. 2006 The biostratigraphy and magnetic polarity zonation of the Pabbi Hills, northern Pakistan: an Upper Siwalik (Pinjor Stage) Plio-Pleistocene fluvial sequence. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 234, 168-185.

·                     Dennell, R.W., Coard, R., Beech, M., Anwar, M. and Turner, A. 2005 Two Upper Siwalik (Pinjor Stage) fossil accumulations from localities 73 and 362 in the Pabbi Hills, Pakistan. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 50 (2), 101-111. 

·                     Dennell, R.W., Coard, R., Beech, M., Anwar, M. and Turner, A. 2005 Locality 642, an Upper Siwalik (Pinjor Stage) fossil accumulation in the Pabbi Hills, Pakistan.Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 50 (1), 83-92. 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 1999 The Palaeolithic and Pleistocene potential of the Indus drainage system: a review of recent work. In The Indus River: Biodiversity, Resources, Humankind, ed. A. and P. Meadows, pp. 306-319. Linnaean Society, London/Karachi: Oxford University Press. 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 1998 Grasslands, tool-making and the earliest colonization of south Asia: a reconsideration. In Early Human Behavior in Global Context: The Rise and Diversity of the Lower Palaeolithic Record, pp. 280-303, ed. by M. Petraglia and R. Korisettar. London: Routledge. (This resulted from the World Archaeological Congress conference in Delhi in 1994). 

·                     Dennell, R.W. 1995 The early stone age of Pakistan: a methodological review. Man and Environment: 20 (1), 21-28. 

·                     Dennell, R.W. and Rendell, H. 1991 De Terra and Paterson, and the Soan flake industry: a perspective from the Soan Valley, Pakistan. Man and Environment 16 (2), 91-99.

·                     Dennell, R.W., Rendell, H., Halim, M. and Moth, E. 1991 Site 55, Riwat: a 42,000 yr.-bp. open-air palaeolithic site from northern Pakistan. Journal of Field Archaeology 19, 17-33. 

·                     Dennell, R.W., Rendell, H. and Hailwood, E. 1988. Early tool-making in Asia : two-million year-old artefacts in Pakistan. Antiquity 62, 98-106. 

·                     Rendell, H., Hailwood, W. and Dennell, R.W. 1987 Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Upper Siwalik Sub-Group, Soan Valley, Pakistan: implications for early human occupance of Asia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 85, 488-496. 

·                     Rendell, H. and Dennell, R.W. 1987 The dating of an upper pleistocene archaeological site at Riwat, northern Pakistan. Geoarchaeology 1, 6-12.