Research Focus                                                  rjv33@cam.ac.uk                                   University of Cambridge

Dr Robyn Veal

    I study natural resource economics of the ancient world. Related areas of interest include ancient history, landscape and environmental archaeology, climate, and ancient science and technology.  I graduated in science, business and ancient history/Italian, before completing my doctorate in archaeology at Sydney on the fuel economy of Pompeii. I held the Ralegh Radford Rome fellowship at the British School at Rome (2011-12); was a McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Anniversary Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2012-2016); and a Research Affiliate at the McDonald Institute (2016-2019). I am currently a Quondam fellow at Hughes Hall (University of Cambridge).   I work with a number of international excavation teams, mostly in Italy (but also in SE Asia and the UK) as an environmental archaeologist and ancient economic historian.   I am passionate about raising awareness and commitment to collection of environmental remains. A close re-reading of the ancient historical sources relating to technology, environment, and demography, integrated with environmental and archaeological results, will allow a clearer view of ancient environmental economics.  I am particularly working towards the elevation of environmental economics to their rightful place in Roman economics. 

Robyn Veal BSc (Syd), BA (Macq), BA hons (Syd), MBA (UTS), PhD (Syd)
                       (Photo by Stella Thorne)

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