Dr. Lycett is an Evolutionary Anthropologist and Anthropological Archaeologist who investigates interactions between the cultural and biological aspects of our evolution. His main research interests are in cultural transmission, social learning, and the how these factors influence long-term and short-term patterns in cultural data.

He has an active research focus in experimental archaeology and the investigation of cultural transmission and evolution through experimental approaches. He has published on a wide range of issues, covering topics in both archaeology and biological anthropology.He is especially interested in questions concerning cultural variation and change in archaeological and anthropological data. This work has covered data ranging from the Palaeolithic through to ethnographically documented communities. Most recently, he has applied this theoretical and methodological approach to the post-contact (historical) period of the Great Plains.