McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research annual report 2018-19

About us
• Dr Emmanuelle Honoré
(Research Associate, St John’s College)
Cognition and representation of self and the
other in North African rock art
• Dr Harriet Hunt (Research Associate)
Crops, Pollinators and People
• Dr Francesco Iacono
(Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher)
Cultural heritage of dictatorship in Albania
• Dr Sara Inskip (Research Associate)
Health and history in medieval Cambridge;
palaeopathology
• Dr Anna Judson (Junior Research Fellow,
Gonville & Caius College)
Writing systems of the Bronze Age Aegean
• Dr Philipp Kobusch (Faculty of Classics)
Hellenistic archaeology
• Dr Simon Kaner (Director, Centre for Japanese
Studies, University of East Anglia)
Japanese archaeology and cultural heritage;
archaeology at the extremities of the Silk Road
• Dr Sheila Kohring (Department of Archaeology)
Material Culture Laboratory
• Dr Emma Lightfoot (Research Associate)
TwoRains: Winter rain, summer rain – adaptation,
climate change, resilience and the Indus
civilization
• Dr Diane Lister (Research Associate)
Genetic analysis of historical barley landraces;
spread of cereal cultivation across Europe
• Dr Emma Loftus (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
Earliest human occupation of the shoreline
• Dr Daniel Longman (Research Associate)
ADAPT: Adaptation, dispersal and phenotype
• Dr Giulio Lucarini (Research Associate)
Archaeological deep history and dynamics of
Mediterranean Africa c. 9600–700 bc
• Dr Beatriz Marín Aguilera (Renfrew Fellow)
Bodies Matter: A comparative approach to
colonial borderlands
• Dr Javier Martinez-Jiménez (Faculty of Classics)
Impact of the ancient city
• Dr Piers Mitchell (Department of Archaeology &
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Peterborough)
Palaeopathology/ancient diseases in humans
• Dr Ian Moffat
(Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowship)
Geoarchaeological investigations of the climate
history of human evolution
• Dr Ioanna Moutafi
(Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher)
MYSOBIO: Deciphering the interplay of funerary
treatment and social dynamic in the Mycenaean
period
• Dr Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (Faculty of Classics)
Impact of the ancient city
• Dr Sara Owen
(Research Associate, Faculty of Classics)
Greek archaeology; culture contact and
exchange; Greek ‘colonization’
• Dr Monica Ramsey
(Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher)
Anthropogenic landscapes and evolution of
plant food production; human-environment
interactions during the final Pleistocene and
early Holocene in the Levant
• Dr Laerke Recht
(Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher)
The Spirited Horse: Human-equid relations in the
Bronze Age Near East
• Dr Jaap Saers (Research Associate)
Effects of mobility and physical activity on
human postcranial skeletal variation
• Dr Ester Salgarella
(Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College)
Bronze Age Aegean writing systems, especially
Linear A & B
• Dr Julia Shaw (University College London)
South Asian archaeology
• Dr Laurence Smith (Independent Scholar)
Suakin Project
• Dr Pamela Jane Smith (Independent Scholar)
History of archaeology
• Dr Lindsay Spencer
(Research Associate, Faculty of Classics)
• Dr Philippa Steele
(Research Associate, Faculty of Classics)
Contexts and relations between early writing
systems
• Dr Anna Stevens (Senior Research Associate)
Delivering sustainable heritage of rural Egypt:
community and archaology at Tell el-Amarna
• Dr Jeremy Tanner (University College London)
Greek and Roman art; early Chinese art;
sociology of art; comparative art; art and
archaeology
• Dr Christina Tsouparopoulou
(Senior Research Associate)
Ancient Near Eastern inscribed private objects
• Dr Gemma Tully (Research Associate)
Delivering sustainable heritage of rural Egypt:
community and archaology at Tell el-Amarna
• Dr Meltem Cemre Ustunkaya
(Research Associate)
TwoRains: Winter rain, summer rain – adaptation,
climate change, resilience and the Indus
civilization
• Dr Darryl Wilkinson
(Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
Anarchism in the prehistoric Andes; material
culture of anti-complexity
• Dr Toby Wilkinson
(Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College)
Near Eastern and Eurasian prehistory; GIS and
computational modelling; trade routes and
economy; landscape survey
• Dr Manuel Will
(Junior Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius College)
Palaeolithic archaeology; Stone Age Africa; lithic
technology; cultural evolution
• Dr Hermine Xhauflair (Fyssen Foundation Fellow)
Field Archaeologists in
Residence
• Dr Rachel Ballantyne
(Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Must Farm post-excavation team
• Chris Chinnock (Museum of London Archaeology
– MoLA)
Osteoarchaeology: Saxon cemetery, Ketton
Quarry
• David Gibson (Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Must Farm post-excavation team
• Dr Mark Knight (Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Must Farm post-excavation team
• Iona Robinson Zeki
(Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Must Farm post-excavation team
Honorary Research Affiliates
• Dr Ike Achebe (Nnamdi Azikiwe University)
Theoretical intersections between language,
material culture, and identity, especially in West
Africa
• Dr Fred Baker (Independent Scholar)
Archaeologist and film maker
• Prof. Shadreck Chirikure
(University of Cape Town)
African archaeology
• Dr Tina Greenfield (Joint Field Director,
Cambridge Expedition to the Valley of the Kings
and NKRF Mission to the Western Wadis)
Egyptian archaeology
• Prof. Colin Haselgrove (University of Leicester)
Late Iron Age archaeology
• Prof. Christine Hastorf
(University of California Berkeley)
Palaeoethnobotany and Andean archaeology
• Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)
Social theory; history of Anthropology; social
poetics; politics of history; Europe (especially
Greece & Italy); Thailand
• Prof. Poul Holm (Trinity College, Dublin)
Environmental history
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