A5037404104- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Ancient Near East History
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Law, logistics, and international trade
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Building materials and conservation
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
University of Leicester
2015-2024
Leiden University
2016-2018
University of Cambridge
2018
University of Sheffield
2007-2011
China is a major centre for rice domestication, where starch grain analysis has been widely applied to archaeological grinding tools gain information about plant use by ancient Chinese societies. However, few grains have identified date. To understand this apparent scarcity of from rice, dry‐ and wet‐grinding experiments with stone were carried out on four types cereals: ( Oryza sativa L.), foxtail millet Setaria italica ), Job's tears Coix lacryma‐jobi L.) barley Hordeum vulgare L.). The...
In the central plain of China, grinding tools are a common category artefacts at sites attributed to Peiligang Culture (c. 9000-7000 BP). This paper focuses on tool assemblage from site Tanghu, largest settlement yet discovered. The results microwear and residue analyses both suggest that cereals were primary plant material processed with tools. Other plants, including acorns underground storage organs, also processed, but probably smaller extent. Furthermore, analysis suggests dry-grinding...
Çatalhöyük is a renowned archaeological site in central Anatolia, best known for its Neolithic occupation dated from 7100 to 6000 cal BC. The received worldwide attention early on large size, well-preserved mudbrick architecture, and elaborate wall paintings. Excavations at the over almost three decades have unearthed rich archaeobotanical remains diverse ground stone assemblage produced by what once was vibrant farming community. study presented here adds our understanding of crops plant...
Unlike previous studies of ground stone technology in the Greek Neolithic, this paper follows a more contextualised approach by looking at contexts deposition from Late Neolithic Makriyalos, Northern Greece. The patterns attested distribution objects between domestic and communal areas will be discussed terms spatial social tool use, curation deposition, contributing to wider discussions about way acts production, consumption discard were structured within different practice.
Excavated over two centuries ago, the Upton Lovell G2a ‘Wessex Culture’ burial has held a prominent place in research on Bronze Age Britain. In particular, was it grave of ‘shaman’ or metalworker? We take new approach to goods, employing microwear analysis and scanning electron microscopy map history interactions between people materials, identifying evidence for presence gold five artefacts, four first time. Advancing materialist approach, we identify goldworking toolkit, linking gold,...
The appearance of Beaker pottery in Britain and Ireland during the twenty-fifth century bc marks a significant archaeological horizon, being synchronous with first metal artefacts. adoption arsenical copper, mostly from Ireland, was followed by that tin-bronze around 2200 . However, whilst copper mine Ross Island is securely dated to Early Bronze Age, further such mines UK have been Middle evidence for exploitation tin ores, other key ingredient make bronze, has remained circumstantial. This...
In this article we put forward an alternative account of the famous wristguards, or bracers, European Early Bronze Age. Combining new materialism with empirical microwear analysis, study 15 examples from Britain in detail and suggest a different way conceptualizing these objects. Rather than demanding they have singular function, treat objects as ‘multiplicities’ always process. This, turn, has significant implications for important archaeological concepts typology object biography our...
The Neolithic period bore witness to the emergence of novel engagements between humans and material world. In Middle East, these interactions were important components broader social ritual developments which came about with rise sedentary communities. this paper, we examine significance processes as represented by elaborate flint daggers at site Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia. Detailed analyses manufacture, use deposition items indicate that they central nodes multiple relations, functioned...
Abstract In the Editorial for special edition on Neolithic Housesholds, we introduce history of house and household studies in European Archaeology outline papers this collection.
The Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük offers an exceptional dataset for studying pigment usage over one-thousand years the existence settlement. inhabitants produced a rich palette colors, with pigments applied to objects, in architectural paintings, and treatment dead. This article discusses evidence at based on data collected during twenty-five research under directorship Ian Hodder (1993–2017).
In this paper we explore how positioning microwear analysis within new materialism and assemblage theory allows us to develop ways of thinking about meaning in the past. By mapping detailed histories an object’s making use, suggest that can open up understanding marks as forms material meanings. These meanings operate intensive events fold together present absent materials, well a range ongoing processes. studying on archaeological object made stone from one most famous Bronze Age barrows...
We explore the ways in which residents of Neolithic Çatalhöyük Anatolia differentiated themselves as well they did not. integrate numerous data sets order to assess patterns inequality (A) across buildings with contemporaneous occupations, (B) between that or not burn at abandonment, and (C) through time. use Gini coefficients so maximize comparability other studies ancient modern worlds, discussing underlying our results clarify enhance value quantitative analyses. evaluate whether...