Research students
Topics available for PhD supervision
- Zooarchaeology
- Past human-animal relationships
- Animal palaeopathology
- Agricultural economy
- Food as material culture
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Current students
Emily Banfield: Animals and ontologies in Neolithic long barrows
Lauren Bellis: A Dog’s life: an interdisciplinary study of changing human-animal relationships in Roman Britain
Alison Foster: Identifying chicken breeds in the archaeological record
Rebecca Kibble: Multi-scale spatial analysis of zooarchaeological data using GIS
Rachel Small: Food, identity and humoral theory in early modern England: a case study from Leicestershire
Past students
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
Brooklynne Fothergill: The bird of the next dawn: the husbandry, transformation and translocation of the turrkey
Rebecca Gordon: Feeding the city: zooarchaeological evidence for urban provisioning (1550-1900 AD)
Meghann Mahoney: Diet and provisioning in Roman small towns: a case study from Ashton, Northamptonshire
Eric Tourigny: Upper Canada foodways: an analysis of faunal remains recovered from urban household and rural farmstead sites in the area of York (Toronto), AD 1794-1900.
