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Academic staff
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Professor in Archaeological Science |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7724 |
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| Dr Alanna Cant | Lecturer in Social Anthropology | + 44 (0)118 378 7820 | a.m.cant@reading.ac.uk |
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Director of Archaeology Field School |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6255 |
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Associate Professor in Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7364 |
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Professor in Archaeology/ Head of Department of Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6266 |
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| Dr Ceri Falys | Teaching Fellow in Human Osteology | + 44 (0)118 378 3273 | c.g.falys@reading.ac.uk |
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Professor in Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8048 |
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Professor in Later Prehistoric Archaeology |
+44 (0) 118 378 6458 |
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Professor in Archaeology/ Research Dean |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6381 |
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Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7632 |
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Professor in Bioarchaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 8927 |
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Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7564 |
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Associate Professor in Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 6788 |
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Professor in Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7363 |
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Associate Professor in Bioarchaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7389 |
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Associate Professor in Medieval Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 5267 |
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| Dr Andrew Souter | Teaching Fellow | + 44 (0)118 378 3267 | a.p.souter@reading.ac.uk |
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Associate Professor in Early Medieval Archaeology |
+ 44 (0)118 378 5449 |
Research and enterprise staff
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Position |
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7877 |
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| Jon Badger | QUEST Geoarchaeological Technician | + 44 (0)118 378 3333 | jon.badger@reading.ac.uk |
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QUEST Director |
+44 (0) 118 378 8941 |
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| Dr Peter Bray | Research Fellow in Material Science | +44 (0) 118 378 3290 | p.j.bray@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Blessing Chidimuro | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Isotope Ecology/Archaeology Geography & | b.chidimuro@reading.ac.uk | |
| Charlotte Diffey | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Archaeobotany | +44 (0)118 378 3269 | c.j.diffey@reading.ac.uk |
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Jenni Eaton |
Research Assistant |
+44 (0)118 378 7804 |
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| Dr Claire Hodson | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship | +44 (0)118 378 3728 | c.m.hodson@reading.ac.uk |
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QUEST Project Manager |
+44 (0)118 378 8945 |
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| Dr Darko Maricevic | Islay Heritage Director of Archaeology | +44 (0)118 378 3280 | nj813990@reading.ac.uk |
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Research Assistant |
+ 44 (0)118 378 7316 |
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| Dr Amy Richardson | Senior Research Fellow | +44 (0)118 378 8747 | a.l.richardson@reading.ac.uk |
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Research Assistant in Human Osteoarchaeology |
+44 (0)118 378 3282 | ||
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Dan Wheeler |
Research Assistant |
+ 44 (0)118 378 3283 |
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QUEST |
+44 (0) 118 378 3284 |
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QUEST Project Manager |
+44 (0)118 378 7360 |
Postgraduate Research Students
See the list of Archaeology PGR Alumni here.
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Project |
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Judith Arnett |
Age estimation and secular change: Developing criteria to aid in the identification of the child victims of Colombia's internal armed conflict. | |
| Cribra orbitalia, Cribra Humeralis and Cribra Femoralis: understanding their aetiology. | ||
| Lisa Backhouse | l.backhouse@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Changing Social Relations and the Making of an Early Medieval Kingdom: People and Pottery in Anglo-Saxon Kent AD 450-850. |
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Making flour the German way: imported lava quern stones in Roman Britain. | ||
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Alborz Bathaei Bozchelouei |
Sustainable construction: Enhancing strength, durability and sustainability of earth construction through interdisciplinary analysis of historic buildings and biomimicry. | |
| Matthew Bosomworth | m.bosomworth@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Early to Mid Holocene climate and its impact on the development of the Neolithic in Iraq and Iran. |
| Florencia Botta | f.n.botta@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Was childhood health declining in the period leading to the Black Death? |
| Lydia Bowler | l.a.bowler@pgr.reading.ac.uk | A critical evaluation of the influence of environmental and geological factors on the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean. |
| Donna de Groene | d.a.j.degroene@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Animal ecology and management during the transition from mobile hunting-gathering to sedentary agriculture in the Eastern Fertile Crescent. |
| Sarah Downum | s.downum@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Visual Culture and 'decoration' in Iron Age Britain: seeing beyond metal. |
| Kate Dudgeon | k.dudgeon@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Archival approaches to environment and lifeways: investigating plant-use at Neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria, 8800 - 6000 cal. BC |
| Detecting Regional Variation in the Roman Diet. | ||
| Paul Flintoft | p.e.flintoft@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Archaeological Palaeoenvironmental Archives: challenges and potential |
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John Ford |
Ringing the changes: the social significance of finger-rings in Roman Britain. | |
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Lee Grana Nicolaou |
An interdisciplinary approach to study of Roman fishing industry. | |
| Ellen Green | ellen.green@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Dead in a ditch: a taphonomic examination of human and animal remains deposited in non-formal funerary contexts in S E England during the late Iron-Age and early Roman periods. |
| Alessandro Guaggenti | a.guaggenti@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Multi-scalar Analysis of Early Built Environments in the Eastern Fertile Crescent. |
| Henrietta Hammant | h.l.hammant@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Anthropology of Heritage: Museum objects and the ‘heroes’ of early British Antarctic exploration. |
| Josie Handley | j.n.handley@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Testing the resilience of agricultural systems to human activities and climate change in the Peruvian Andes. |
| Richard Henry | richard.henry@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Fractured Britannia: Britain and Rome under Count Theodosius and the House of Valentinian |
| Matthew Jacobson | m.j.jacobson2@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Climate change and socio-economic transformations in the Late Antiquity of the Middle East. |
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Elaine Jamieson |
Memory, Mobility and the Perception of Place: a view of elite landscapes in Medieval England. | |
| Timothy Jones | t.e.jones@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Aspects of Iron Age and Roman Pottery from Silchester. |
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Sarah Jones |
The impact of climate variability on Bronze Age and Iron Age societies in the Middle East. | |
| Alesia Koush | a.koush@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Human rights implications of illicit trafficking in archaeological heritage: the case study of Iraq. |
| Scott Midgley | s.d.midgley@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Trace-element incorporation into stalagmite calcite as a paleo-volcanic record: a chemical perspective. |
| Ageing and the Aged: The Social and Physical Implications of Senescence AD 900 - 1550. | ||
| Thomas Mills | t.k.mills@pgr.reading.ac.uk | 'Be Thou Dead to the World, but Alive Unto God': Defining the Diagnosis and Evolution of Leprosy Using the Evidence of Child and Adult Skeletal Remains. |
| Andrea Mobbs | a.m.mobbs@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Transitions to adulthood in Anglo Saxon England, 5th - 10th century AD: an osteological and stable isotopic investigation into the timing of puberty and the impact of dietary stress. |
| Murat Ozturan | m.ozturan@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Differences in Flaking Technologies and Volume Management in Large Cutting Tools and Core & Flake Assemblages in Britain and North-West Europe in MIS 11 and 9. |
| Rebecca Pitt | r.a.pitt@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Investigating the impact the Roman conquest had on Iron Age people’s health through examining Perinatal, Infant and Maternal health. |
| Kathryn Price | k.m.price@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Early Humans in Britain: Cultural Adaptations from Coastal to Inland Occupation. |
| Maria Rabbani | maria.rabbani@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Investigating human-environmental relationships in the Zagros region during the Late Glacial, and Early to Mid-Holocene period. |
| Mubariz Rabbani | mubariz.rabbani@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Ancient Beads: Investigating Trade, Technology, Adornment and Identity at Barikot (~4th Century - ~3rd Century AD). |
| Andrew Reynolds | a.c.reynolds@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Late Bronze Age and Iron Age hoards in Wales and Marches: An investigation into patterns of selective and reflective deposition. |
| Arica Roberts | arica.roberts@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
Gender & Religion in Early Medieval Wales: The Archaeology of Religious Transformation in Wales c. 400-1200 CE. |
| Rebecca Scott | rebecca.scott@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Fire in the Lower Palaeolithic: Absence of evidence or evidence of absence? |
| Dave Smith | d.b.smith@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Spatial organisation of early Neolithic communities in the Southern Levant: A spatial analysis of the WF16 Wadi Faynan settlement with regional comparisons. |
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Elspeth St John Brooks |
e.s.john-brooks@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Developing new approaches to human mobility and activity areas using geochemical patterns at British archaeological sites. |
| e.t.thompson@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Puberty and health in rural Medieval England. | |
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Lise Tjellesen |
Decoding forgotten acoustic knowledge of Ancient Civilizations: sacred structures, symbolism and sound - the effect on mind and body. | |
| Krystyna Truscoe | krystyna.truscoe@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Late Iron Age territorial oppida in Southern Britain: a reinterpretation using new data collected from aerial photographs and lidar. |
| Adam Turner | a.n.turner@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Mesolithic Artefacts and Use Wear in Wetlands. |
| The role of sarsen stone in southern Britain. An archaeological and ethno-historical approach to an ancient industry. | ||
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A Crimson Horizon - The Religious Landscapes of Warfare in Northern Britain, c.1050-1500. | ||
| Deborah Young | d.j.young@pgr.reading.ac.uk | Material culture deposition at Early Neolithic burial monuments: understanding the earliest grave goods in Britain. |
Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff
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Name |
Position |
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| Professor Grenville Astill | Emeritus Professor | g.g.astill@reading.ac.uk |
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Emeritus Professor |
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| Emeritus Professor | ||
| Professor Clive McCann | Emeritus Professor | |
| Dr Catherine Barnett | Senior Visiting Research Fellow | |
| Dr Alex Smith | Senior Visiting Research Fellow | |
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Visiting Research Fellow |
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Dr Matt Canti |
Visiting Research Fellow |
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Visiting Research Fellow |
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Visiting Research Fellow |
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| Dr Delphine Fremondeau | Visiting Research Fellow | |
| Dr Aroa Garcia-Suarez | Visiting Research Fellow | |
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Dr Chris Green |
Visiting Research Fellow/QUEST |
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Visiting Research Fellow |
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| Dr Kevin Hayward | Visiting Research Fellow | K.Hayward@reading.ac.uk |
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Mr Neil Holbrook |
Visiting Research Fellow |
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| Professor Michael Lewis | Visiting Professor | mlewis@britishmuseum.org |
| Dr Sara Machin | Visiting Research Fellow | s.l.machin@reading.ac.uk |
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Dr David Mudd |
Visiting Research Fellow |
david.mudd@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Marta Portillo Ramirez | Visiting Research Fellow | |
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Dr Tom Walker |
Visiting Research Fellow |
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Dr Phillipa Walton |
Visiting Research Fellow |