McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research annual report 2018-19

duction and Consumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE (European Research Council)
Research Grants
Harriet Hunt
t study on phenolic compounds in foxtail millet (Unilev
• Dr Emma Loftus
Coastal origins: Earliest human occupation of the shoreline
(Isaac Newton Trust and Leverhulme Trust)
• Dr John Macginnis
Ziyaret Tepe archaeological project
(Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Trust)
• Prof. Marcos Martinón-Torres
Silver sourcing by triangulation: The case of Mycenae
(British Academy)
• Prof. Marcos Martinón-Torres
Archaeological science and globalisation: A case study of
crucibles and metallurgical artefacts from Great Zimbabwe
World Heritage site
(Royal Society)
• Dr Augusta McMahon
Fierce lions, angry mice and fat-tailed sheep: Animal
encounters in the ancient Near East
(British Institute for the Study of Iraq)
• Dr Augusta McMahon
Albert Reckitt Fund for Mesopotamian Fieldwork (TELL BRAK
Archaeological Project)
(Albert Reckitt Charitable Trust)
• Dr Preston Miracle
Smart integration of genetics with sciences of the past in
Croatia: minding and mending the gap
(EC H2020 Spreading Excellence & Widening Participation
– Twining)
• Dr Ioanna Moutafi
MYSOBIO: Deciphering the interplay of funerary treatment
and social dynamics in the Mycenaean period
(EC H2020 MSC Fellowship)
• Dr Cameron Petrie
Environmental adaptation and resilience to climate change:
Investigating the sustainability of the Indus Civilisation
(British Council India)
• Dr Cameron Petrie
Land, water and settlement in northwest India
(British Academy)
• Dr Cameron Petrie
Transforming India’s Green Revolution by research and
empowerment for sustainable food supplies
(BBSRC)
• Dr Cameron Petrie
Winter rain, summer rain: adaptation, climate change,
resilience, and the Indus Civilisation
(EC H2020 ERC Consolidator)
• Dr Cameron Petrie
Enhancing Bridget Allchin’s 1951 photographic collection of
the collections of the National Museum of Afghanistan
(British Academy)
• Dr Emma Pomeroy
A reassessment of Neanderthal mortuary behaviour at
Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan
(British Academy)
• Dr Monica Ramsey
H-E Interactions: Increasingly anthropogenic landscapes
and the evolution of plant-food production: human–
environment interactions during the final Pleistocene and
early Holocene in the Levant
(EC H2020 MSC Fellowship)
• Dr Laerke Recht
The Spirited Horse: Human–equid relations in the Bronze
Age Near East
(EC H2020 MSC Fellowship)
• Prof. Lord Colin Renfrew
Keros, antecedents of urbanism at the world’s earliest
maritime sanctuary
(A. G. Leventis Foundation)
• Prof. Lord Colin Renfrew
Early Cycladic sculpture and the archaeology of ritual
(Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation)
• Dr John Robb
After the plague: Health and history in medieval Cambridge
(Wellcome Trust)
• Dr John Robb
Health, history and human lives in medieval Cambridge
(Wellcome Trust)
• Dr Kate Spence
Delivering sustainable heritage strategies for rural Egypt:
Community and archaeology at Tell El-Amarna
(British Council)
• Prof. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Yangshao culture: 100 year research history and heritage
impact
(Shanghai Academy of Guyewang Studies)
• Dr Jay Stock
ADAPT: Adaptation, dispersals and phenotype:
understanding the roles of climate, natural selection and
placticity in shaping global hunter-gatherer adaptability
(EC FP7 ERC Starter)
• Dr Jay Stock
The effects of mobility and physical activity on human
postcranial skeletal variation
(BBSRC)
• Dr Simon Stoddart
Romanisation of Umbria
(Rust Family Foundation)
• Dr Christina Tsouparopoulou
Memories for life: Materiality and memory of ancient Near
Eastern inscribed private objects
(Uppsala University – FB Swedish Research Council)
• Dr Darryl Wilkinson
Anarchism in the prehistoric Andes: The material culture of
anti-complexity
(Isaac Newton Trust and Leverhulme Trust}
24 Archaeology at Cambridge 2018–2019