Research Grants

Alexandra E.T. Kriti, Universitat Rovira I Virgili  –

Experimental charring experiments on barley towards the creation of new tools to explore agriculture in the past

Asta Rand, Memorial University Newfoundland –

The environmental sulphur isotope composition of the Maya region

Aurelie Manin, postdoc, Oxford –

Resilience or assimilation? The origin of the dogs found in an early colonial Indigenous village in Michoacán

Caroline Vermeeren, consultant, the Netherlands –

A method to recognize management of oak in archaeology

Elisa Scorsini, ANU Australia –

Reconstructing the history of Dauar Island through geoarchaeology and soil micromorphology

Gene Shev, postdoc, Lieden  –

Investigating human responses to climate change in the Archaic Age of the Caribbean: isotopic analyses on animal remains to reconstruct the climate of Canashito, Aruba

Jaime Rogers, University of South Florida –

Investigating oyster management systems

Jess Peto, Exeter University –

Feeding the beast: a prehistoric slovenian biomolecular case study

Kangkang Li, Queens University Belfast –

The role of environmental change in the rise and fall of oasis-desert civilisation in the Lop Nur region, northwest China

Michael Given, Glasgow University

Places, partnerships and ecologies of care: landscape relations in post-medieval Greaulin, Trotternish, Skye

Petra Dark, University of Reading –

An environmental context for the Slaughterbridge inscribed stone and Melorn deserted medieval settlement, Cornwall

 Angelos Hadjikoumis, The Cyprus Institute –

Life in the uplands of Neolithic Cyprus: first glimpses into human-animal interactions

Barbara Huber, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena –

Reconstructing olfactory landscapes of ancient Arabia using biomolecular approaches

David Ingleman, University of California –

The Pig Under the Post: Osteo- and Iso-biographies of a Pre-Contact Hawaiian Pig Burial

Emilie Green, University of Aberdeen –

Chronology, Climate & Resilience: Using Multi-Proxy Bayesian Chronologies to Examine Pastoralist Responses to Dynamic Steppe Environments and Landscapes in Northern Mongolia

Jacqui Mulville, Cardiff University –

Distribution of red deer in the Atlantic Archipelago

Dr Sebastian Payne, Retired –

Metric separation of lagoon and edible cockle shells (Cerastoderma glaucum and C. edule)

Shalen Prado, McMaster University –

Dwelling at the Intersection of Seascapes and Landscapes in Pictland

 Sharada Channarayapatna, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar –

Palaeoproteomic approach to identifying animal species use for the worked bone industry at the Bronze Age settlement of Dholavira

Ekaterina Ershova, Moscow State University –

Signature of trails and drove ways in soils and deposits of the forest-steppe zone

Rosalie Hermans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel –

The archaeology of coastal communities an archaeobotanical perspective (phytolith analysis of space and landscape of coastal landing places)

Elena Ponomarenko, University of Ottawa and Ecosystem Archaeology Services and  Pile Tomson, Estonian University of Life Sciences –

Morphological signature of pastoral activities in peatlands of the forest zone

Claudia Speciale, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria –

Plants and sulphur: what can archaeobotany tell us about ancient georesources?

  Jessie Woodbridge, University of Plymouth – Improving socio-ecological resilience to wildfire in the UK

James B. Innes, Durham University – Age, palaeoenvironment and recording of Mesolithic flint sites at Esklets

Veronica Lee, University of York – Pike trade in the late medieval Baltic

Hannah Britton University of Exeter – No bark, all bite

Sue Dyke, University, of the Highlands and Islands – Investigating how broch communities interact with their landscape in the Northern Isles

Emma Karoune, Independent – Creating an accessible phytolith reference collection for British plant species

Ewan Chipping, University of York – Humans influence on morphological variation in wild and domestic cattle from prehistory to the present?

Alvaro Castilla-Beltran, University of Southampton – Domesticating Fire Island

Kelly Reed, University of Oxford – Agricultural transformations

Lucile Crété, Bournemouth University – Multi-proxy study of ancient antelopes’ diet to investigate past vegetation changes in the Turkana Basin

Katharine Alexander, University of Kentucky – Deer management strategies and a possible explanation for the increase in prehistoric human maize consumption in the eastern woodlands of the United States

Ophélie Lebrasseur, University of Oxford – An archaeological and genetics approach to the cultural history of chickens in Argentina

Lukasz Pospiezny, Polish Academy of Science – The role of halophytes as a source of bioavailable strontium

Lena Strid, Lund University – A study of medieval bone pens

Tansy Branscombe, University of Cambridge – Shellfishing at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the East Adriatic

Lidia Colominas, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica – Tracing ancient livestock farming in eastern Pyrenees as a shaper of mountain landscapes: a sediment DNA approach

Youri van den Hurk, University College London – Optimizing Zooarchaeological Research on Cetacean Remains

Jessica Watson, University at Albany – Paleoenvironment and Prehistoric Diet on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts

 Caroline Vermeeren, BIAX Consult – A method to recognize woodland management in Archaeology

Lisa Lodwick, University of Reading – Growing Roman Britain: Cereals and weeds as evidence for farming practices in the East Midlands

Lena Strid, Oxford Archaeology – Study of sex-related morphological traits on sheep skeletons

Angela Trentacoste, University of Oxford – Orvieto Environmental Project

Edouard Masson-Maclean, University of Aberdeen – Subsistence and settlement patterns during the Little Ice Age on the Bering Sea coast: an interdisciplinary approach integrating ecology, foraging theory and zooarchaeology

Lee Broderick, University of York – Tragelaphus Identification Project, Edinburgh (TIPE)

Meriel McClatchie, Self-employed consultant, Ireland, Honorary Research Asscociate – UCL & UCD – Late prehistoric farming in southern Britain: a comparative study of archaeobotanical data from five Iron Age sites

Scott Timpany, University of Highlands and Islands – SEM investigation of microscopic animal hairs and their potential use as proxy-evidence for palaeograzing activity

Shawn O’Donnell, University of Cambridge – Quantitative comparison of an alternative pollen processing technique with traditional HF/acetolysis – based protocols