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Richard C. Preece is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

Their scholarly work primarily focuses on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, the study of Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology. Additional research topics include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Marine and environmental studies, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

They have published extensively, with frequent contributions to key scientific journals such as:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Quaternary
  • Proceedings of the Geologists Association
  • Quaternary International

Notable recent papers include:

  • Aminostratigraphical test of the East European Mammal Zonation for the late Neogene and Quaternary, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The palaeontology and dating of the 'Weybourne Crag', an important marker horizon in the Early Pleistocene of the southern North Sea basin, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Environmental heterogeneity of the Lower Palaeolithic land surface on the Goodwood-Slindon Raised Beach: comparisons of the records from Boxgrove and Valdoe, Sussex, UK, 2022, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Mid-Late Quaternary Fluvial Archives near the Margin of the MIS 12 Glaciation in Southern East Anglia, UK: Amalgamation of Multi-Disciplinary and Citizen-Science Data Sources, 2022, Quaternary
  • New palaeontological evidence suggests an early Middle Pleistocene age for the lower levels of Sun Hole Cave, Cheddar, Somerset, UK, 2022, Proceedings of the Geologists Association

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Simon A. Parfitt
  • Kirsty Penkman
  • T. Meijer
  • А. С. Тесаков
  • Beatrice Demarchi

Best Publications

  • Buffered tree population changes in a quaternary refugium: evolutionary implications.

    P. C. Tzedakis;I. T. Lawson;M. R. Frogley;G. M. Hewitt

  • The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe

    Simon A. Parfitt;Simon A. Parfitt;René W. Barendregt;Marzia Breda;Ian Candy;Ian Candy

  • Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe

    Simon A. Parfitt;Simon A. Parfitt;Nick M. Ashton;Simon G. Lewis;Richard L. Abel

  • Early and early Middle Pleistocene correlations in the Southern North Sea basin

    P.L. Gibbard;R.G. West;W.H. Zagwijn;P.S. Balson

  • Humans in the Hoxnian: habitat, context and fire use at Beeches Pit, West Stow, Suffolk, UK†

    R. C. Preece;J. A. J. Gowlett;S. A. Parfitt;S. A. Parfitt;D. R. Bridgland

  • Ecological thresholds and patterns of millennial-scale climate variability: The response of vegetation in Greece during the last glacial period

    P.C. Tzedakis;M.R. Frogley;I.T. Lawson;R.C. Preece

  • A chronological framework for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula

    Kirsty E. H. Penkman;Richard C. Preece;David R. Bridgland;David H. Keen

  • Terrestrial environments during MIS 11: evidence from the Palaeolithic site at West Stow, Suffolk, UK

    R.C. Preece;S.A. Parfitt;S.A. Parfitt;D.R. Bridgland;S.G. Lewis

  • The Lateglacial and Holocene environmental history of the Ioannina basin, north-west Greece

    Ian Lawson;Mick Frogley;Charlotte Bryant;Richard Preece

  • Climatic change recorded by stable isotopes and trace elements in a British Holocene tufa

    E. R. Garnett;J. E. Andrews;R. C. Preece;P. F. Dennis

  • Molluscan and plant biostratigraphy of some Late Devensian and Flandrian deposits in Kent

    M. P. Kerney;R. C. Preece;C. Turner

  • Holywell Coombe, Folkestone: A 13,000 year history of an English Chalkland Valley

    R.C. Preece;D.R. Bridgland

  • An aminostratigraphy for the British Quaternary based on Bithynia opercula.

    Kirsty E.H. Penkman;Richard C. Preece;David R. Bridgland;David H. Keen

  • Malacological evidence relating to the insularity of the British Isles during the Quaternary

    T. Meijer;R. C. Preece

  • Pronounced warmth during early Middle Pleistocene interglacials: Investigating the Mid-Brunhes Event in the British terrestrial sequence

    I. Candy;G.R. Coope;J.R. Lee;S.A. Parfitt;S.A. Parfitt

  • Testing the aminostratigraphy of fluvial archives: the evidence from intra-crystalline proteins within freshwater shells

    K.E.H. Penkman;R.C. Preece;D.H. Keen;D. Maddy

  • The Pleistocene Sea-Level and Neotectonic History of the Eastern Solent, Southern England

    R. C. Preece;J. D. Scourse;S. D. Houghton;K. L. Knudsen

  • The Cromer Forest-bed Formation: New Thoughts on an Old Problem

    SA Parfitt;RC Preece

  • Biostratigraphic and aminostratigraphic constraints on the age of the Middle Pleistocene glacial succession in north Norfolk, UK

    Richard C. Preece;Simon A. Parfitt;Simon A. Parfitt;G. Russell Coope;Kirsty E. H. Penkman

  • A review of the occurrence of Corbicula in the Pleistocene of North-West Europe

    T. Meijer;R.C. Preece

  • New biostratigraphic evidence of the Post-glacial colonization of Ireland and for Mesolithic forest disturbance

    R. C. Preece;P. Coxon;J. E. ROBINSONt

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon A. Parfitt
Simon A. Parfitt University College London
Kirsty Penkman
Kirsty Penkman University of York
Philip L. Gibbard
Philip L. Gibbard University of Cambridge
David R. Bridgland
David R. Bridgland Durham University
G. Russell Coope
G. Russell Coope Royal Holloway University of London
Polychronis C Tzedakis
Polychronis C Tzedakis University College London
Helen Roe
Helen Roe Queen's University Belfast
Matthew J. Collins
Matthew J. Collins University of Cambridge
Julian E. Andrews
Julian E. Andrews University of East Anglia
Ian Candy
Ian Candy Royal Holloway University of London

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