Amy Holguin
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Profile
Biography
Amy specialises in archaeobotany with a focus on waterlogged prehistoric assemblages from Europe. She values interdisciplinary research, integrating archaeobotany with palaeoecological and biomolecular approaches to better understand early food systems. She is also interested in the archaeology of ecosystem change and climate change.
Amy received a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology in 2018 from the University of Oxford, where she also completed a MSc in Archaeological Science in 2019 with a focus on archaeobotany and stable isotopes. She continued her studies at the same institution with a PhD project (2020-2024) using archaeobotany to investigate prehistoric food systems at a pile-dwelling settlement on the shore of Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia as part of the ERC Synergy EXPLO project.
Amy joined BioArch in 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on the NERC Hidden Frontiers project, led by Dr. Nathan Wales. Within this project, Amy will be using archaeobotany and aDNA to explore how human- and climate-driven changes impacted prehistoric Alpine agricultural systems.
Research
Projects
- Hidden Frontiers: Longitudinal crop trajectories in the Alpine Arc