Profile

Cath joined the Department in March 2008 to work as the Heslington East Fieldwork Officer. Prior to this she was working as a Heritage Consultant for Atkins and completing her PhD, at York, examining the relationship between people and the environment on the Yorkshire Wolds, from a geoarchaeological perspective. Her varied archaeological interests primarily relate to fieldwork and specifically the use of fieldwork as a vehicle for experiential learning and to examine the relationship between theory and practice. Methodological interests include deposit modelling, environmental histories and the landscape scale of natural and human processes utilising a multidisciplinary approach.

Recent developments in community archaeology, allied to the site at Heslington East, have given Cath a focus in wider public participation agendas and the social and political milieu within which archaeological fieldwork and research is situated

Departmental roles

Field School Manager

Health and Safety Officer

Outreach Activities:

• Presentation, Alumni Weekend at the University of York 8/5/10
• Public Lecture, York Timeline Plus 13/3/10
• Masterclass in Archaeological Fieldwork, Ashville College, Harrogate 4/2/10
• Society Talk, Stockton on the Forest History Group 21/1/10
• Autumn Dinner Lecture, Langwith College, University of York 29/11/09
• Society Talk, South Ainsty Archaeology Group 8/10/0

Research

• Fieldwork Officer Heslington East
• Landscape archaeology on the Yorkshire Wolds
• Interdisciplinary deposit modelling
• Internal examiner, Certificate in Archaeology, Centre for Lifelong Learning

Research Group Members:

• Steve Roskams
• Kevin Walsh
• Suzie Thomas, Council for British Archaeology

Publications

Recent Publications

• Neal,C. and Roskams,S. 2012 'Prehistory at Heslington East; an interim assessment' Prehistoric Yorkshire 49, 61-64
• Price, S.J. Ford, J.R. Cooper, A.H. Neal,C. 2011 'Humans as major geological and geomorphological agents in the Anthropocene; the significance of artificial ground in Great Britian' Phil. Trans. Royal Society A369 1056-1084
• Neal, C. 2009 ' People and the environment; a geoarchaeological approach to the Yorkshire Wolds landscape' Unpublished PhD thesis, University of York
• Neal. C. 2007 'The dynamics of human activity and landscape processes on the Yorkshire Wolds; an assessment of dry valley deposits at Cowlam Well Dale' Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 79, 1-18
• Neal, C. 2006 'Dry valley research: a case study from the Yorkshire Wolds' Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 17, 86-92