Sarah Everett
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Zooarchaeology

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Biography

Sarah is a zooarchaeologist specialising in the synthesis and meta-analysis of zooarchaeological data. Her research has focused on microfauna, animal husbandry, livestock morphology, and the zooarchaeology of northern and southeast Europe. Sarah is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of York on the UKRI-funded project 'RATTUS: Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Past European Societies'.

2026: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Zooarchaeology on UKRI-funded project 'RATTUS: Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Past European Societies', University of York

2024: PhD Archaeology, University of York
Thesis title: The zooarchaeology of cultural and economic change in Roman and late antique southeast Europe

2018: MA Medieval Archaeology, University of York
Dissertation title: Commensal rodents as evidence for settlement character and settlement connectivity in post-Roman Britain and France

2017: Diploma in Archaeology, University of Leicester

2016: BA English Literature, Open University

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Selected publications

Orton, D, Everett, S, Ellison, G, Feider, M, Hufthammer, AK, Iwaszczuk, U, Kyselý, R, Magnell, O, Makowiecki, D, Schmölcke, U, Zetterström, I and Holland, EP (in press) Commensal rodents, settlement ecology, and emerging urban networks in early medieval northern Europe, Early Medieval Europe.

Everett, S and Orton, D (2026) Livestock morphological variation as evidence for cultural and economic change during the Roman occupation of southeast Europe, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 72, article number 105775, 1-16.

Everett, S and Orton, D (2024) Evaluating Roman influence in southeast Europe by zooarchaeological meta-analysis, Quaternary International, 699, 84-99.

Chorro-Giner, M, Russ, H, and Everett, S (2023) Animal bone and shell. In: N Jackson (ed) Earth Trust Visitor Centre: archaeological strip, map and sample (SMS) excavations, planning phases 1, 2 and 3. Little Wittenham, Oxfordshire. Volume 1: archaeological analysis report. Barnard Castle: DigVentures, pp.11-12, 99-121.

Everett, S (2023) Animal husbandry at the edge of the Empire, Roman Yorkshire, 14, 12-14.