McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research annual report 2018-19

About us
• Deborah Priddy (Historic England)
Inspector of Ancient Monuments
• Dr Carolyn Rando (University College London)
Forensic archaeological science
• Dr Rebecca Roberts (Administrator, ADAPT
Project, University of Cambridge)
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age land use and
subsistence strategies in the Semirech’ye region
of Kazakhstan
• Dr Calum Robertson (Independent Scholar)
Heritage and identity in contemporary Scottish
society
• Dr Anja Slawisch
(Research Associate, Faculty of Classics)
Greek art and archaeology in the eastern
Mediterranean
• Dr Nigel Strudwick (Independent Scholar)
Egyptology
• Dr Shadia Taha (Wolfson College)
Cultural heritage; ethnography; qualitative
research; community engagement; outreach
projects
• Simon Timberlake (Independent Scholar)
Field archaeology and geology; early metal
mining
• Dr Ann de Vareilles (Independent Scholar)
Archaeobotany
• Dr Robyn Veal (Hughes Hall)
Ancient natural resource economics
• Dr Lucy Walker (Independent Scholar)
Archaeolink
• Dr Jean Wilson
(Vice-President, Church Monuments Society)
Material culture and imagery of the Early Modern
period; funerary monuments in Britain ad
1500–1700
Postgraduate Students
PhD Students (2018–2019)
• Ethan Aines (Department of Archaeology)
Memory, Landscape, and Place-Making Through
Votive Deposition in Later Prehistoric Norfolk
• Camila Concepcion Alday
(Department of Archaeology)
The Dance of Making Fibres: A Study of the
Earliest Plant-Fibre Technology by Marine Hunter-
Gatherers on the Pacific Coast of South America
• Helen Alderson (Department of Archaeology)
An Archaeology of Artisan Identities and Global
Relationships: Case Studies of 19th and Early
20th Century Weavers and Carvers from Pohnpei
and Kosrae, Micronesia
• Pablo Alonso Gonzalez
(Department of Archaeology)
Nation-Building and Cultural Heritage in Post-
Colonial Cuba (1898–2014)
• Monique Arntz (Department of Archaeology)
Beyond Meaning: An Artefact Approach to the
Neolithic Figurines from Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) and
Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
• Alex Reina Barker (Department of Archaeology)
Humour in Akkadian Literature: A Contextual
Analysis
• Flaminia Bartolini (Department of Archaeology)
Rome’s Divided Memory: Nazi-Fascist Heritage and
Post-War Memory Construction in Italy
• Tristan Begg (Biological Anthropology)
The Beethoven Genome Project
• Jeremy Bennett (Department of Archaeology)
Managing the Agrarian Environment in Prehistoric
Malta and Gozo
• Hari Blackmore (Department of Archaeology)
Worlds of Authority, Communities of Practice, and
State Formation in Early 1st Millennium ad Central
Korea
• Kathryn Boulden (Department of Archaeology)
A Bioarchaeological Reassessment of Livestock
Management Practices between the Neolithic and
the Roman Period in Wessex
• Ella Jane Macleod Brown
(Department of Archaeology)
Functional Adaptation of Trabecular Bone in the
Mandibular Condyle of Human and Non-Human
Primate Populations
• Pippa Browne (Department of Archaeology) An
Investigation into the Agency and Operation of
Food offerings in Old Kingdom Private Mortuary
Cults at Saqqara
• Emma Brownlee (Department of Archaeology)
Change and Continuity of Burial Practice: A
Study of Cultural and Religious Cohesion in Early
Medieval Europe
• Alessandro Ceccarelli (Department of Archaeology)
Ceramic Traditions and Ceramic Landscapes of the
Indus Civilisation: Investigating the Technologies
and Socio-economic Complexity of Rural Pottery
Production in Bronze Age Northwest India
• Petros Chatzimpaloglou
(Department of Archaeology)
Geological Reconnaissance and Provenancing of
Potential Neolithic Lithic Sources in the Maltese
Islands
• Margaret Comer (Department of Archaeology)
The Heritage of Repression: Memory,
Commemoration, and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia’
• Malcolm Connolly (Department of Archaeology)
Building a Picture of Desert Abandonment during
Extreme Climate Phases. Settlement Patterns and
Site Formation Processes in the Desert Uplands
‘Refuge’, Australia
• Thomas Crowley (Department of Archaeology)
We Are the Antiques of the World: The Kalasha of
Northwest Pakistan and the Age of Heritage
• Leah Damman (Department of Archaeology)
Buried Together: An Advanced Taphonomic
Approach to Human and Animal Co-mingled
Fragmentary Interments in Neolithic Britain
• Sarah Louise Decrausaz (Biological
Anthropology)
Bringing to Bear: A Biocultural Examination of
the Developmental Origins of the Obstetric
Dilemma
• Ningning Dong (Department of Archaeology)
Animal Classifications in Prehistory – Case
Studies in North China during the Neolithic
• Silvia Ferreri (Department of Archaeology)
Symbols as Active Conveyors of Meaning:
Kudurrus of Southern Mesopotamia in the
Second and First Millennium bc
• Lewis Ferrero (Department of Archaeology)
Invisible Craft, Visible Tools: An Investigation
of Textile Tools in Iron Age Southern Britain
• Lindsey Jo Fine (Department of Archaeology)
Paths to Social Complexity: A Multiscalar
Examination of Land Passes in Central Greece
• Laura Elizabeth Foster
(Department of Archaeology)
Exploring Transit in Post-Roman Britain: A
Theoretical and Methodological Assessment
in Kent
• Dylan Andrew Charles Gaffney
(Department of Archaeology)
Taking the Northern Route: Research into the
Initial Colonisation of Insular Rainforests by
Archaic and Modern Humans
• Devlin Alexander Gandy
(Department of Archaeology)
Since Time Immemorial: Utilizing Ancient
eDNA to Reevaluate Human Presence in the
Americas during the Late Pleistocene
• Peter Griffith (Department of Archaeology)
Late Quaternary Habitats of the Nakuru Basin,
Kenya: Phytolith Evidence from the Middle
and Late Stone Age Site of Prospect Farm
• Rebecca Haboucha
(Department of Archaeology)
Envisioning Sustainable Heritage in the Face
of Climate Change: A Call to Align National
Heritage Management Policies across Borders
• Emily Hallinan (Department of Archaeology)
Variation and modernity in Stone Age
landscape use in the Western and Northern
Cape, South Africa
• Mark Haughton (Department of Archaeology)
Social Identities and Power in Early Bronze
Age Society: A Comparative Analysis of the
Construction and Negotiation of Age and
Gender Ideologies in the Burials of Ireland
and Scotland
• George Robert Heath-Whyte
(Department of Archaeology)
Bēl and Marduk in the First and Late-Second
Millennium bc
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