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Chris Hunt is affiliated with Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focused within the fields of Arts and Humanities and Medicine. Their work encompasses Archaeology, Anthropology, Paleontology, Epidemiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
  • Corneal surgery and disorders
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Chris Hunt's published recent papers cover a variety of subjects and venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Control of myopia using diffusion optics spectacle lenses: 12-month results of a randomised controlled, efficacy and safety study (2022, British Journal of Ophthalmology)
  • New Neanderthal remains associated with the 'flower burial' at Shanidar Cave (2020, Antiquity)
  • Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave (2020, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews)
  • Cooking in caves: Palaeolithic carbonised plant food remains from Franchthi and Shanidar (2022, Antiquity)
  • Control of myopia using diffusion optics spectacle lenses: 4-year results of a multicentre randomised controlled, efficacy and safety study (2024, BMJ Open Ophthalmology)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Chris Hunt include Emma Pomeroy, Tim Reynolds, Charles French, and Graeme Barker. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches connecting archaeology, anthropology, and medical research.

Their publication record also features work in significant venues such as Antiquity, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, and British Journal of Ophthalmology.

Chris Hunt has contributed to book publications from publishers including Liverpool John Moores University and Archaeopress Archaeology eBooks. These works include:

  • Temple landscapes Fragility, change and resilience of Holocene environments in the Maltese Islands (2020)
  • Conversations in Human Evolution (2020)

Best Publications

  • Palaeoenvironments of insular Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period: a savanna corridor in Sundaland?

    Michael I. Bird;David Taylor;Chris Hunt

  • Fieldwork in geography teaching: A critical review of the literature and approaches

    Martin Kent;David D. Gilbertson;Chris O. Hunt

  • The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo).

    Graeme Barker;Huw Barton;Michael Bird;Patrick Daly

  • The distribution of peatland in Europe

    D.E. Yeloff;J.C. Labadz;Chris O. Hunt

  • The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation

    Patrick Roberts;Chris Hunt;Manuel Arroyo-Kalin;Damian Evans

  • Purbeck–Wealden (early Cretaceous) climates

    P. Allen;K.L. Alvin;J.E. Andrews;D.J. Batten

  • The Chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah Cave (Cyrenaica, Northeast Libya)

    Katerina Douka;Zenobia Jacobs;Christine Lane;Rainer Grun

  • An imperial legacy? An exploration of the environmental impact of ancient metal mining and smelting in southern Jordan

    F. B. Pyatt;G. Gilmore;John Grattan;C. O. Hunt

  • FIXING A BASAL BERRIASIAN AND JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS (J-K) BOUNDARY - IS THERE PERHAPS SOME LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?

    William A.P. Wimbledon;Cristina E. Casellato;Daniela Reháková;Luc G. Bulot

  • Prehistoric foragers and farmers in South-East Asia: renewed investigations at Niah Cave, Sarawak

    Graeme Barker;Huw Barton;Paul Beavitt;Michael Bird

  • A 50,000-year record of Late Pleistocene tropical vegetation and human impact in lowland Borneo.

    Christopher O. Hunt;David D. Gilbertson;Garry Rushworth

  • Subjective and objective measures of corneal staining related to multipurpose care systems.

    Nicola Pritchard;Graeme Young;Sarah Coleman;Chris Hunt

  • The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: The second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork

    Graeme Barker;Annita Antoniadou;Simon Armitage;Ian Brooks

  • The local and global dimensions of metalliferous pollution derived from a reconstruction of an eight thousand year record of copper smelting and mining at a desert-mountain frontier in southern Jordan

    J.P. Grattan;D.D. Gilbertson;C.O. Hunt

  • Taphonomy and the palynology of care deposits

    G. M. Coles;D. D. Gilbertson;C. O. Hunt;R. D. S. Jenkinson

  • An 8000-year history of landscape, climate and copper exploitation in the Middle East: the Wadi Faynan and the Wadi Dana National Reserve in southern Jordan

    Chris O. Hunt;David D. Gilbertson;Hwedi A. El-Rishi

  • Summary of palaeoenvironmental and prehistoric investigations in the Azraq Basin.

    AN Garrard;A Betts;B Byrd;C Hunt

  • Early-Holocene environments in the Wadi Faynan, Jordan

    C. O. Hunt;H. A. Elrishi;D. D. Gilbertson;J. Grattan

  • Quaternary palaeogeomorphologic evolution of the Wadi Faynan area, southern Jordan

    Sue McLaren;D. Gilbertson;John Grattan;Chris Hunt

  • New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave

    Emma Pomeroy;Paul Bennett;Chris O. Hunt;Tim Reynolds

  • Excavations at the Lower Palaeolithic site at East Farm, Barnham, Suffolk 1989-92

    N.M. Ashton;D.Q. Bowen;J.A. Holman;C.O. Hunt

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme Barker
Graeme Barker University of Cambridge
Graeme P. Young
Graeme P. Young Flinders University
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
James Rose
James Rose Royal Holloway University of London
Patrick J. Schembri
Patrick J. Schembri University of Malta
Paula J. Reimer
Paula J. Reimer Queen's University Belfast
Alastair Ruffell
Alastair Ruffell Queen's University Belfast
Tamsin C. O'Connell
Tamsin C. O'Connell University of Cambridge
Maarten Blaauw
Maarten Blaauw Queen's University Belfast
Paul S Phillips
Paul S Phillips University of Northampton

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