Research themes

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Archaeobotany

Past subsistence, agriculture and crop patterns; Cooking, cuisine and dietary choices; Microscopic techniques for the analysis of archaeological food remains

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Amino acid geochronology

Dating the Palaeolithic, Quaternary palaeoenvironments and climate change; Understanding molecular stability and degradation; Developing screening and endogeneity tests for palaeoproteomics

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Organic residue analysis

Food, cuisine and culinary practice; Artefact use histories and material culture studies; Early pottery research

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Osteoarchaeology

Investigating the demography, health, diet and lifeways of people from the past

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Palaeogenomics

Crop domestication and movement; Kinship and population affinity studies; Analysis of DNA from artefacts; Sedimentary DNA and coprolite analysis

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Palaeoproteomics and ZooMS

Ancient dairying practices; Protein biomarkers of disease; Developing cheaper and faster palaeoproteomics methods

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Stable isotope analysis

Dietary dynamics in historic societies; Quantifying prehistoric human diets; Marine palaeoecology

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Zooarchaeology

Fishing and fish trade; Early farming practices; Archaeology of commensal animals and urban fauna; Zooarchaeological method development, including molecular techniques

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