Research themes

Past subsistence, agriculture and crop patterns; Cooking, cuisine and dietary choices; Microscopic techniques for the analysis of archaeological food remains

Dating the Palaeolithic, Quaternary palaeoenvironments and climate change; Understanding molecular stability and degradation; Developing screening and endogeneity tests for palaeoproteomics

Food, cuisine and culinary practice; Artefact use histories and material culture studies; Early pottery research

Investigating the demography, health, diet and lifeways of people from the past

Crop domestication and movement; Kinship and population affinity studies; Analysis of DNA from artefacts; Sedimentary DNA and coprolite analysis

Ancient dairying practices; Protein biomarkers of disease; Developing cheaper and faster palaeoproteomics methods

Dietary dynamics in historic societies; Quantifying prehistoric human diets; Marine palaeoecology

Fishing and fish trade; Early farming practices; Archaeology of commensal animals and urban fauna; Zooarchaeological method development, including molecular techniques