Scientific Archaeology Research Group Postgraduate Students

Some of our recent research degree students and their thesis titles

Amy Poole (a.e.poole@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Chemical analysis of buried soils from experimental earthworks and comparison to archaeological case studies.
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Dr Wendy Matthews

Anna Kutner
Characterization of soils containing Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) using in-situ and laboratory techniques.
(Completed: 13/03/2013 )
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Dr Stuart Black

Anna Rohnbogner (a.j.rohnbogner@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Exploring concepts of romanisation and its impact on child health in late Roman Britain.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis ,  Dr Hella Eckardt

Aroa Garcia-Suarez (a.garcia- suarez@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Landscape exploitation and settlement networks: a geoarchaeological study of Neolithic Catalhoyuk and Pinarbsi, Central Anatolia, Turkey.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Dr Stuart Black

Cecilia Collins (c.r.collins@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Interpreting prevalence rates of maxilliary sinusitis and ear disease in Medieval Iceland: an evaluation of the crania of adult and sub-adult skeletons using computed tomography, microscopy and endoscopy.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis ,  Dr Frank Ruhli (University of Zurich)

Ceri Falys (c.falys@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Extending the life course: developing new methods for identifying the "elderly" in the archaeological record.
(Completed: 05/02/2013 )
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis

Christine Bunting (c.j.bunting@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Quantifying the Heritage Resource Potential of Lowland Wetlands in NW Europe.
Supervised by: Dr Nick Branch ,  Dr Steve Robinson ,  Professor Penny Johnes

Christopher Speed
Bioturbation on Archaeological Sites.
Supervised by: Professor Martin Bell

Daniel Young
Holocene climate change in Southern Ireland.
Supervised by: Dr Nick Branch ,  Dr Stuart Black

Georgia Koromila (g.koromila@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
A geoarchaeological study of Neolithic open spaces in N. Greece.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Professor Martin Bell

Helen McGauran (h.e.crossman@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Contextual analysis of economic and social networks: the circulation of Bronze Age soft-stone artefacts in Bahrain and Cyprus.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Dr Stuart Black ,  Emeritus Professor Bob Chapman

Ian Herbertson (r.i.herbertson@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Learner / Imitator Theory and the Neanderthal Disappearance.
Supervised by: Dr Robert Hosfield ,  Professor Roger Matthews

Jade Whitlam (j.t.whitlam@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Archaeobotany and the Neolithic of Western Iran.
Supervised by: Professor Roger Matthews ,  Dr Nick Branch ,  Dr Wendy Matthews

Kathryn Turner (kathryn.turner@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Re-evaluation of Middle East Holocene Chronologies using tephra and radium isotopes: a new beginning for old materials.
Supervised by: Dr Stuart Black ,  Dr Nick Branch

Louise Jones (l.a.jones@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
In situ Preservation of Wetland Heritage: Hydrological & Chemical Change in the Burial Environment of the Somerset Levels, UK.
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Professor Martin Bell ,  Dr Steve Robinson

Margaret Andrews
Palaeopathology of Populations of Southern England in Romano/Anglo Saxon Transition.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis ,  Dr Gabor Thomas

Marialucia Amadio (m.amadio@pgr.reading.ac.uk)

Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Professor Roger Matthews

Michael Simmonds (m.simmonds@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Examining the relationships between climate change, vegetation succession and human activity during the Late Devensian and Early Holocene in SE England.
Supervised by: Dr Nick Branch ,  Dr Stuart Black ,  Dr Robert Hosfield

Pascal Flohr (p.flohr@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of archaeological and experimentally grown cereals from Jordan.
(Completed: 05/12/2012 )
Supervised by: Dr Gundula Müldner ,  Dr E Jenkins (Bournemouth)

Petra Verlinden (p.verlinden@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Adolescence, Migration and Health in Medieval England.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis ,  Fiona Shapland

Philip Stastney (p.stastney@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Examining the relationships between Holocene climate change, palaeohydrology and human activities in the Midlands of Ireland.
Supervised by: Dr Nick Branch ,  Dr Stuart Black

Rebecca Watts (r.watts@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
The impact of environmental stress experienced during development on adult lifespan.
Supervised by: Dr Mary Lewis ,  Professor Grenville Astill

Robert Davis (r.j.davis@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Palaeolithic archaeology of the Solent river: human occupation inits stratigraphic context.
Supervised by: Dr Robert Hosfield ,  Professor Martin Bell ,  Nick Aston (British Museum)

Sandy Briden (nee Davies)
NMR analysis of hair.
Supervised by: Dr M Almond (Chemistry) ,  Dr Stuart Black

Sarah Elliott (sarah.elliott@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Micromorphological investigation of early animal management in the Zagros, Iran.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Professor Roger Matthews ,  Dr Stuart Black

Sophie Raynaud (s.raynaud@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Stable isotope analyses of keratin for human provenancing: Implications for forensic science.
(Completed: 13/03/2013 )
Supervised by: Dr Stuart Black ,  Dr M Almond (Chemistry)

Stella Kyrillidou (s.kyrillidou@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Combined elemental analysis on Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements in northern Greece.
Supervised by: Dr Wendy Matthews ,  Dr Stuart Black ,  Prof K Kotsakis (Thessaloniki)

Tom Walker (t.walker@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Molluscs in Environmental Archaeology.
Supervised by: Professor Martin Bell ,  Dr Stuart Black

Victoria Taylor
Shell Middens in the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene in North Africa: A case study from Grotte des Pigeons (Taforalt), Morocco
Supervised by: Professor Martin Bell ,  Dr Stuart Black

Wei Chu (w.chu@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Experimental investigations into site formation processes and the earlier Palaeolithic record.
Supervised by: Dr Robert Hosfield ,  Professor Martin Bell