Selected Ongoing Project Collaborations
Competition, Resources, and the Consolidation of Social Complexity in Bronze Age Sardinia (Director: E. Holt, Buffalo). http://www.ifrglobal.org/programs/europe/italy-prace-siddi-2016
This project is examining socio-cultural change at Nuraghe sites in the Siddi Plateau through the lens of natural resource consumption.
Burn Temperatures of Irish Bronze Age Cremations (Director: Robyn Veal: University of Sydney (through the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis); Lorna O'Donnell, University College, Dublin; and Laura McParland, CSIRO, Sydney & Royal Holloway University of London)
Using the reflectance technique, this project examined burn temperatures from cremation charcoals and interpreted the results in light of taxon differences; depositional and taphonomic issues; and archaeological recovery methods. Now complete, article now online (JAS). A further article on Angkorian iron slag charcoals is in preparation.
Gabii Project (Director: Professor Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan)
http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/gabiiproject/
Invited as an environmental advisor and collaborator since June 2010, for charcoal research exploring cultural and economic uses of wood fuel, from the tenth century BC to second/third centuries AD (Lazio, Tiber Valley, outside Rome). Also studying examinng material from under Sant'Omobono (central Rome) - 8th century BC onwards.
Silchester Town Life Project (Director: Professor Michael Fulford, University of Reading)
http://www.reading.ac.uk/silchester/
Appointed charcoal specialist (from August 2010) for this long term excavation (now complete) examining Insula IX of Silchester, a site dating from the Iron Age to the late Roman Period. Seventeen years of data are to be analyzed, and the first study of the Late Roman material is published, while an integrated environmental study of a well awaits publication.
This project is examining socio-cultural change at Nuraghe sites in the Siddi Plateau through the lens of natural resource consumption.
Burn Temperatures of Irish Bronze Age Cremations (Director: Robyn Veal: University of Sydney (through the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis); Lorna O'Donnell, University College, Dublin; and Laura McParland, CSIRO, Sydney & Royal Holloway University of London)
Using the reflectance technique, this project examined burn temperatures from cremation charcoals and interpreted the results in light of taxon differences; depositional and taphonomic issues; and archaeological recovery methods. Now complete, article now online (JAS). A further article on Angkorian iron slag charcoals is in preparation.
Gabii Project (Director: Professor Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan)
http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/gabiiproject/
Invited as an environmental advisor and collaborator since June 2010, for charcoal research exploring cultural and economic uses of wood fuel, from the tenth century BC to second/third centuries AD (Lazio, Tiber Valley, outside Rome). Also studying examinng material from under Sant'Omobono (central Rome) - 8th century BC onwards.
Silchester Town Life Project (Director: Professor Michael Fulford, University of Reading)
http://www.reading.ac.uk/silchester/
Appointed charcoal specialist (from August 2010) for this long term excavation (now complete) examining Insula IX of Silchester, a site dating from the Iron Age to the late Roman Period. Seventeen years of data are to be analyzed, and the first study of the Late Roman material is published, while an integrated environmental study of a well awaits publication.
