Dr Aimée Little
Senior lecturer in early prehistory, material culture and experimental archaeology

Profile

Biography

Originally from New Zealand, Aimée completed a BFA at the Elam School of Fine Arts (Majoring in Printmaking and Polynesian Art) followed by a BA with a double major in Anthropology and Māori Studies (Auckland University). After spending time surveying and analysing early Holocene lithic scatters in the Outback of Australia and the United States she worked as a commercial archaeologist in Ireland. She was later appointed Archaeological Editor for the National Museum of Ireland. Her PhD at University College Dublin, awarded 2010, was funded by a Humanities Institute of Ireland Scholarship. She held a Marie Curie Fellowship (2011-14) at the Laboratory for Artefact Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands, followed by an ERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-16) on the POSTGLACIAL Project at the University of York. In 2017 Aimée became a Lecturer at York and in 2020 received Highly Commended in the Times Higher Education Most Innovative Teacher Teacher of the Year Award. 

Departmental roles

Director of Studies MA Material Culture & Experimental Archaeology and MSc Material Culture & Experimental Archaeology

Director of the York Experimental Archaeological Research (YEAR) Centre

Director of the PalaeoHub IAWA (Imaging & Wear Analysis) Laboratory

Head of Research Staff

Past PhD Supervision

Ana Harto Villén

Western European Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic burial practices

Jess Bates

Investigating invisible traces at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr: a temporal and spatial analysis of flint microwear patterns

Current PhD Supervision

Andrew Langley

Invisible technologies and the container revolution

Greta Pepper

Following a thread: tracing technology and techniques along the Silk Road

Gabriel Cifuentes (University of Alcalá, Spain)

New methodologies applied to the study of Pleistocene bone surface modifications in the fossil record of Olduvai Gorge: a union between taphonomy and experimental archaeology

Alice Cao

Exploring the function of Neolithic grinding stones using new methods

Tabea Koch 

Tracking adhesive technologies from the late Glacial to Early Holocene

Jim Glazzard

Between the hammer and the anvil: non-ferrous metal workers of Viking Age Britain

Grace Thornhill 

Levallois-like Stone Tool Technology in Late Neolithic Britain: Its Nature, Distribution and Significance

Mette Adegeest (Stavanger University, Norway)

Mesolithic Soapstone Sinkers of Western Norway: their Manufacture, Use and Decoration