McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research annual report 2018-19

About us
• Elena Scarsella (Department of Archaeology)
Mediterranean Highlanders: Connectivity and
Identity in Late Prehistoric Central Italy
• Christoph Schmidhuber
(Department of Archaeology)
Childhood in Ancient Iraq: Perspectives from
Babylonia in the Second Millennium bc
• Susan Shay (Department of Archaeology)
The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and
Self-determination by Native Hawaiians
• Charles Brendan Simmons
(Department of Archaeology)
The Evolution of Leadership and Inequality: An
Analysis of the Jomon and Yayoi Settlements in
Kohoku New Town
• Frances St George-Hyslop
(Biological Anthropology)
The Role of CNTNAP2 Gene in Human
Neocortex Evolution and Development
• Alicia Victoria Stevens (Department of Archaeology)
Cultural Heritage, Remembrance and the Peace
Process in Post-Junta Myanmar
• Meghan Strong (Department of Archaeology)
Illuminating the Path of Darkness: Social and
Sacred Power of Artificial Lighting in Pharaonic
Period Egypt
• Akshyeta Suryanarayan
(Department of Archaeology)
What’s Cooking in the Indus Civilisation?
Integrating Ceramic Residue Analysis and
Bioarchaeology to Approach Ancient Indus Food
• Jess Thompson (Department of Archaeology)
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Exploring
Bodies, Body Parts and Personhood in Late
Neolithic Malta Through Funerary Taphonomy
• Emily Margaret Carole Tilby
(Department of Archaeology)
Neanderthal and Modern Human Adaptations
to Climate Change in Southwest Asia: Climate
Reconstruction of Marine Isotope Stage 5-3
(130–29 ka) Based on Small Mammal Records
from Shanidar Cave (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• Benjamin Joon Utting
(Department of Archaeology)
Exploring Prehistoric Technology at the Tràng
An Landscape Complex, Ninh Bình Province,
Vietnam
• Laura Van Holstein (Biological Anthropology)
Correlated Asymmetry in Divergence
• Jasmine Miria Karoliina Vieri
(Department of Archaeology)
Regional and Temporal Patterns in the
Composition of Pre-Columbian Gold and
Copper Alloys
• Joanna Walker (Department of Archaeology)
Human-Environment Interactions in the Indus
Civilisation: Reassessing the Role of Rivers, Rain
and Climate Change in Northwest India
• Kimberley Watt (Department of Archaeology)
A Sign of the Times: Administration of
Monumental Construction During Eighteenth
Dynasty Egypt
• Simon M. Weppel (Department of Archaeology)
Heritage Temporalities in the Context of Cultural
Change: A Russian Case Study
• Emily Wright (Department of Archaeology)
Dead Bodies, Lived Fictions: Understanding
Changing Funerary Practices Through a Reexamination
of the Relationship Between
Cremation and Inhumation in the Mediterranean,
1500–500 bc
• Keaghan Yaxley (Biological Anthropology)
Investigating Adaptive Zone Shifts With
Combined-Evidence Phylogenies
MPhil Students (2018–19)
• Umar Mazhar Ahmad (Department of Archaeology)
The Affect of Urbanism on Human Health; A
Mesopotamian Case Study
• Faiz Alam (Biological Anthropology)
Association of Socioeconomic and Demographic
Factors with Child Undernutrition in Punjab,
Pakistan
• Georgia Rose Ashworth
(Department of Archaeology)
The Literary Heritagescape: Translating Literary
Settings into Heritage Sites
• Lane Atmore (Biological Anthropology)
Developing a Novel Test Statistic for Measuring
Ancestry Proportions in Recently-Admixed
Human Populations
• Maria Averkiou (Department of Archaeology)
Cypriot Antiquities in University Museums:
Collecting Practices, Presentation and Reception
• Evangeline May Hunter Bell
(Department of Archaeology)
Combined Biomolecular Approaches to Identify
Differential Sheep and Goat Resource Use in
Prehistoric Britain: A Case Study at the Carsington
Pasture Cave
• Spyridon Beretoulis (Biological Anthropology)
The Effect of Culture on Genetic Diversity
• James Blundell (Department of Archaeology)
Connecting Authority in the Early Iron Age:
Applying Network Analysis to the Corpus of
Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscription
• Timothy Canessa (Department of Archaeology)
Behavioural Responses to the Last Glacial
Maximum: A View from Southern Iberia
• Matthew Victor Chalmers
(Department of Archaeology)
Nature as Culture: Challenging the Human Order
Versus Natural Chaos Dichotomy in Predynastic
Egypt
• Russell James Clark (Department of Archaeology)
The Treaty of Ba’al I, King of Tyre, and Esarhaddon,
King of Assyria
• James Cracknell (Biological Anthropology)
Relationship Between Fluctuating Asymmetry,
Resting Metabolic Rate and Athletic
Performance in Rowers
• Leanne Margaret Daly
(Department of Archaeology)
Catching Shadows: The Exhibition of Intangible
Heritage of Oceania in Lisa Reihana’s In Pursuit
of Venus
• Jessica Danuta Domiczew
(Department of Archaeology)
The Land of the Living: Understanding British
Neolithic ‘Houses’
• William Eskew (Biological Anthropology)
Parasite Analysis of a 19th-century Ottoman
Period Latrine from Acre, Palestine
• Lachlan Hugh Gell (Department of Archaeology)
Divinatory Interpretation and Imperial Decision
at the Sargonid Court
• Axel Tower Getz (Department of Archaeology)
Cultural Landscapes and Climate Change
Comprehension: How we See Global Warming
in the Local Environment
• Laura Gimeno (Biological Anthropology)
Spatiotemporal Variation in the Wider
Determinants of Coronary Heart Disease in
France (1980–2015)
• Emilie Jean Green (Department of Archaeology)
The Dogu Puzzle: An Exploration of the
Fragmentation, Movement and Deposition of
Chiba Prefectur’s Jomon Dogu Figurines by
Means of Geochemical Analysis
• Elizabeth Ann Hart (Department of Archaeology)
Heritage as a Creative Force: Two Case Studies
from the Pottery Industry of Stoke-on-Trent
• Tara Henderson (Biological Anthropology)
A Revaluation of the Amount of Archaic
Admixture Present in Modern Near Oceania
Populations
• Raphael Henkes (Department of Archaeology)
When There Is No Solution: Dealing with
Perpetrator Heritage
• Auday Hussein (Department of Archaeology)
Crown Prince or Prince? Succession in the Neo-
Assyrian Period
• Luke Richard Morgan Jenkins
(Department of Archaeology)
Understanding Grinding Stones: A Study of
the Use of Grinding Stones in Neolithic and
Chalcolithic SE Hungary
• Petra Hannah Jones (Department of Archaeology)
A Study of Material Culture through Rims
and Shape Variation Using the Ceramics at
Százhalombatta-Földvár: An Analysis of Phase I
‘Tradition’
• Bailey Elease Kirby (Department of Archaeology)
The Connection Between Color and Social
Status in Medieval European Clothing
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