Governance
Management Board
Andre is Research Director at the UAB, and an environmental and biomolecular archaeologist who uses archaeozoology, light stable isotope and organic residue analyses to obtain information on human-environment interactions and economic practices in the past. He has species interest in South America and Mediterranean archaeology.
Hannes Schroeder (University of Copenhagen)
Hannes is a bioarchaeologist specialising in ancient genomics and group leader at the Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Hannes has a wide range of research interests spanning the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, and microbial ecology and his group tackles archaeological questions relating to human population histories and the changing landscape of human infectious diseases over time.
Isabelle is the Research Director at CNRS, her research focuses on the management and use of fuels in a context of mobility of Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies and major climate changes.
Kirsty Penkman (University of York )
Analytical Chemistry, Geochemistry, Biomolecular Archaeology. My research interest is in developing and applying analytical chemistry to archaeological and geological questions, including human evolution and climate change. Working collaboratively with a a wide range of disciplines, my focus is on the analysis of biomineral organics: their pathways of degradation, their methods of preservation, of detection, and how these molecules can inform us of an organism’s life and death history. I run the NERC-recognised amino acid dating facility, NEaar.
twitter: @NEaar_lab
Maria Saña (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Maria is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Prehistory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Maria's research focuses on the study of the origins of the Neolithic and the domestication of animals, working in Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa. Interested in archaeozoology, she directs her research towards the adaptation and integration of new analytical procedures based on biogeochemistry and bone biomechanics to the study of the archaeological record.
Oliver Craig (University of York)
Oliver is the Director of BioArch, his research focus is biomolecular archaeology, i.e. the recovery of proteins, lipids and DNA from ancient skeletal remains and archaeological artefacts to provide insights into past human activities.
Catherine Taylor (University of York)
Catherine is the Project Manager and is responsible for the management of all network activities in liaison with the Project Coordinator, Prof Oliver Craig, and project partners. Catherine is the primary contact for the UoY Research Grants and Operations team and the EU Project Officer.
Supervisory Board
Susanne Kerner (University of Copenhagen)
Archaeology of Southwest Asia (Near East) with special interest in
the role of of food in identity building and the relationship between commensality and social organisation
theoretical archaeology, particularly gender studies
rituals and their role in social and political organisation
pottery studies
social organisation, prestige and craft specialisation (6th to 3rd mill. BCE)
Research project: Ritual landscapes in Mughayrat. A survey and excavation in central Jordan.
Miriam Cubas (Senior researcher, University of Alcalá - Project Partner)
Miriam is a science-based archaeologist, whose research interest focuses on material culture of prehistoric societies during the Prehistory in Europe, especially related to the origin and dispersal of the earliest pottery. Her research experience is highly interdisciplinary, it combines archaeological fieldwork and traditional artefact analysis (typology and technology), and Archaeological Science (organic residue analysis). Miriam uses a broad range of analytical techniques to study past human-environment interactions, including subsistence strategies and technological innovations. With expertise involving molecular and inorganic analysis of prehistoric pottery she is also experienced in morphological and technological analysis of pottery assemblages, contextual information, radiocarbon dates and statistical analysis.
Twitter: @Jim_Leary
Jim Leary (University of York)
My research has combined themes related to monumentality, human interactions with place and the study of movement and mobility to explore how people in the past experienced and shaped their world. This has been articulated through a focus on British later prehistory, notably the Neolithic period, though I have wide-ranging interests across archaeology.
There are three interlinked themes that run through my research. Firstly, much of my work has revolved around Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes and monumentality, specifically mounds, henges and buildings. This is particularly clear in my work on Silbury Hill, the Marlborough Mound, and Marden henge. Secondly, I am interested in ways of understanding mobility in archaeology, particularly how mobility-informed approaches can be applied to the past. To develop this, I have undertaken interdisciplinary research, applying recent theoretical developments on mobility in anthropology, sociology and geography to archaeology. Thirdly, I have undertaken research on the perceptions of, and responses to, sea-level rise in the past. This used ethnographic evidence to discuss how different groups have responded, and are responding, to modern sea-level rise and climate change more generally, and how this might help us understand human responses to the changes to sea-level that occurred following the last Ice Age.