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University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Tel +44 (0)116 252 2611
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Dr Richard Thomas

rmt12.jpgSenior Lecturer in Archaeology

BA, PhD (Birm.), FSA, FLS

Centre for Historical Archaeology

Associate Editor for the International Journal of Paleopathology

Tel: 0116 252 3343

Email: rmt12@le.ac.uk

Richard Thomas read Ancient History and Archaeology at Birmingham University in 1995. He subsequently embarked on a PhD at Birmingham, studying animal husbandry in medieval and post-medieval England. Richard joined the School as Lecturer in Archaeology in September 2003. In 2010 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer and elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.

Research

Teaching

  • Fieldschool
  • World Archaeology (BC/AD)
  • Aims and Methods in Archaeology
  • Using Archaeological Evidence
  • Environmental Archaeology
  • Archaeozoology
  • Forensic Archaeology
  • Doing Historical Archaeology
  • MA Archaeology (Bioarchaeology Pathway)

 

Recently supervised PhDs:

Judith Porcasi: Subsistence in palaeocoastal California

Stephanie Vann: A generic recording system for animal palaeopathology

Matilda Holmes: Food and status in the Saxon and Scandinavian burhs

Current PhDs:

Brooklynne Fothergill: From New World to Old: turkey pathologies as a reflection of human behaviour

Rebecca Gordon: Feeding the city: zooarchaeological evidence for urban provisioning (1550-1900 AD)

Rebecca Kibble: Multi-scale spatial analysis of zooarchaeological data using GIS

Meghann Mahoney: Food and identity in a Roman small town

Selected Recent Publications

Thomas, R. 2009. Bones of contention: why later post-medieval assemblages of animal bones matter, in Horning, A. and Palmer, M. (eds.) Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks: Future Directions in the Archaeological Study of Post-1550 Britain and Ireland. Woodbridge., 133-148.

Thomas, R. 2010. Translocated testudinidae: the earliest archaeological evidence for tortoises in Britain. Post-Medieval Archaeology 44/1: 165-171.

Thomas, R. and Johannsen, N. 2011. Articular lesions in cattle phalanges and their archaeological relevance. International Journal of Paleopathology 1: 43-54.

Thomas, R. and Grimm, J. 2011 The role of age, sex and body weight in the formation of ‘buttresses’ on sheep metatarsals. International Journal of Paleopathology 2: 121-125.

Thomas, R. and McFadyen, L. 2010. Animals and Cotswold-Severn long-barrows: a re-examination. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 76: 95-113.