Robyn Veal's Research Details
  • Research Focus
  • Resource economics
    • Natural Resource Economics in the Ancient World
    • Wood or Wood Charcoal? Questioning sustainability
    • A quantitative model for the ancient fuel supply to Pompeii AD 79
    • Overview of Charcoal Analysis
    • Field Collection
  • Projects
    • Select Project Collaborations
    • Pompeii & Campania
  • Conferences
  • Outreach
  • Contact

Selected Ongoing Project Collaborations

Environment & Economy in Ancient Campania - Director Robyn Veal (Cambridge). A long-term
     multidisciplinary project to rewrite the history of Campania from 500 AD to AD 500, using organic data as the
     basis for economic modelling. The project had its first workshop: 'Environment to economy in Ancient Campania:
     moderating and modeling the data', in March 2016. Further details on ResearchGate.


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.


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  • Research Focus
  • Resource economics
    • Natural Resource Economics in the Ancient World
    • Wood or Wood Charcoal? Questioning sustainability
    • A quantitative model for the ancient fuel supply to Pompeii AD 79
    • Overview of Charcoal Analysis
    • Field Collection
  • Projects
    • Select Project Collaborations
    • Pompeii & Campania
  • Conferences
  • Outreach
  • Contact