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Matt Meredith-Williams

Matt Meredith-Williams is a post-doctorate researcher in the Archaeology Department at the University of York.

“I specialise in coastal archaeology, and how people utilised coastal food in the prehistoric period, before pots or metal were invented. To date I have found 4,200 new coastal sites from the mid-Holocene. I have always been fascinated by the past, and how people interacted with their world. After studying climate change in the past for my undergraduate and Masters degrees, I went off on a tangent working for the likes of Cosmo and Good Housekeeping magazine, before returning to archaeology, first commercially in London, before taking my PhD at York. I love coastal archaeology, I get to travel the world’s best coastlines, visit the best coastal sites, and indulge in my other passions, surfing and diving.”