Archaeologist and ancient seed counter | Archaeobotany 🔬|Iron Age & Roman archaeology| Open research
Oxford, England
Joined July 2011
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Sun, sea and samples. Spent the week @UCTharros studying the results of 3 years of flotation - early assessment means we can provide feedback to the excavation team and refine future sampling! 🌾🍇🔬
Cracking presentation from Anne De Vareilles @HistoricEngland on the results of the Biodiversity project. Highlight of my week. #IWGP2022
... And archaeobotanists at @UCamArchaeology et al. at #iwgp2022
(Daniel Fuks, Chris Stevens, Anna Florin, Frijda Schmidt, me and Rachel Ballantyne).
ALT A group of confernce attendants stood in front of some trees.
Archaeobotanists from @school_of_arch et al. at the 19th International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany in České Budějovice
Delighted to be at the last day of #IWGP2022, learning about domestication and post-domestication.
The International Working Group for Palaeoethnobotany has just made it into the 21st century with a lovely new website - it has tonnes of historical information on the previous meetings from 1969 onwards. Fantastic work @AndreasGHeiss 🎉 #archaeobotany
archaeobotany.org/
Massive well done to Anwen Cooper @RewildArch. Can't wait to see how this project develops! 👏👏
Congratulations to Anwen Cooper @RewildArch at Oxford Archaeology Ltd, one of our new Round Six @UKRI_News Future Leaders Fellows #UKRIFLF
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Elizabeth Stroud @school_of_arch is presenting the FIBs trait data + models which will be released in the summer as an R package, so everyone will be able to produce the iconic intensive vs extensive lollipop diagrams used by Bogaard et al.
This is incredibly exciting
#IWGP2022
Also, the #AEAOpenScience was run by these fantastic people: Tom Maltas, Tina Roushannafas and Rubi Wu. #IWGP2022
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Exciting to hear about the ArboDat 2.0/+ developments from Felix Bittmann at #IWGP2022 . But we need to make sure archaeobotanical data is being shared at publication! If only archaeobotanical editorial boards were interested in improving things.
2nd day at #IWGP2022 and Daniel Fuks @UCamArchaeology presented his research on multi scalar archaeobotanical evidence from the Negev Highlands 🍇🌾
Great presentation on grain drying ovens in Late Antique to Medieval Brittany. So many fascinating links with recent work in the UK and Ireland. #IWGP2022
Continuing the opening session’s journey around the world through archaeobotany, Julian Wiethold talking about his work in Britanny, France #IWGP2022
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On my way to #IWGP2022 in Ceske Budejovice, the triennial archaeobotany conference. Looks like we're being encouraged to tweet, makes a nice change.
In September I will be joining @UCamArchaeology as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Archaeology. Very much looking forward to working with great colleagues, teaching archaeobotany and learning about the archaeology of the East of England.
Had a great week at the IPNA in Basel - thanks to Ferran Antolin and the team. Top notch env arch facilities, great company and a good reminder of the need to think about how we count. #archaeobotany
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Post Doc for an environmental archaeologist with a brilliant PI on a really awesome project.
Care deeply about long-term human-environment relations, archaeology’s role in nature recovery practices, and shaping a more dynamic disciplinary research landscape? Apply for a 4-year role on the ‘Rewilding’ later prehistoric Britain project @oatweet tinyurl.com/RewildingAd
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Today in Basel, we counted the same lakeshore sample multiple times to compare counting techniques between archaeobotanists. Bit stressful.
ALT Tray of labelled archaeological seeds.
ALT Person at work at a binocular microscope with a tray of seeds.
ALT Waterlogged wheat spikelet bases in a tray.
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Spending the week at the IPNA in Basel working on methods for waterlogged plant remains. Delighted to represent the Oxford/HE swish a sieve in a bowl technique with @struth28 #archaeobotany
