Sarah Everett

Research project

The zooarchaeology of northern Britain and the Danube basin from the Iron Age to the early medieval period

Supervisors: Dr David Orton and Professor Dawn Hadley

Funding: AHRC funding via the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH)

This PhD project will explore changes in the zooarchaeology of northern Britain and the Danube basin from the Iron Age to the early medieval period, with a particular focus on the transitions to and from the Roman period. The project will use published data and new primary data to identify changes in animal exploitation practices, using those changes as a proxy for social, cultural and economic developments. It will assess the extent to which political change associated with Roman imperial expansion and subsequent decline was accompanied by social, cultural and economic change, evaluating Roman influence on imperial border regions and beyond.

Profile

I completed a BA in English Literature with the Open University in 2016, and an undergraduate Diploma in Archaeology via distance learning with the University of Leicester in 2017.

In 2018 I completed an MA in Medieval Archaeology at the University of York, taking modules in medieval archaeology, zooarchaeology and human osteology. My masters dissertation concerned the use of commensal rodent remains from archaeological sites as a means by which to track changes in settlement character and settlement connectivity in Roman and early medieval Britain and France.

Publications, Papers and Awards

Richard Hall prize, University of York, January 2019

Awarded for the highest mark for a dissertation on early medieval archaeology in the Department of Archaeology masters cohort 2017/18.

Masters dissertation prize, Department of Archaeology, University of York, January 2019

Awarded for the highest dissertation mark of the MA Medieval Archaeology and MA Historical Archaeology cohorts in 2017/18.