Professor – School of Biosciences – University of Exeter
Dr. Rob Lee is a Professor in the School of Biosciences at the University of Exeter. His research looks at the study of languages. Recently he led a team that determined that the symbols carved on stones by the Picts, a society that flourished in Scotland from AD 300-843, constitute a written language rather than symbology.
The team determined this by assessing the randomness of the symbols. They found that there is some predictability with the symbols, evidence that they constitute a written language. Their results were published recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.
