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2017-2018-V2.Pdf Landscapes in Egypt Archaeology at Cambridge 2017–2018 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Contents Contacts McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research About us 1 Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK Introduction: The McDonald Institute and www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk Archaeology at Cambridge 1 https://www.facebook.com/archaeologycambridge The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 3 https://twitter.com/UCamArchaeology Cambridge Archaeological Unit 4 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvIHvQuXoNXcK5bxA-Es9A Cambridge Heritage Research Centre 6 Reception +44 (0)1223 333538 Cyprian Broodbank (Director) [email protected] Faculty of Classics 8 James Barrett (Deputy Director) [email protected] Institute of Continuing Education 8 Sally Fenn/Vivien Brown’ (PA to the Director) [email protected]’ Members 9 Emma Jarman (Administrator) [email protected] Senior McDonald Fellows 10 Katherine Boyle (Research Facilitator) [email protected] Sophia Caldwell/Nicholas Ward (Research Grants Administrator) McDonald Research Fellows 10 [email protected]/[email protected] Field Archaeologists in Residence 11 Patricia Murray (Receptionist) [email protected] Honorary Research Affiliates 11 Department of Archaeology Visiting Scholars 12 Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK Affiliated Scholars 12 www.arch.cam.ac.uk Postgraduate Students 13 Reception +44 (0)1223 333538 Cyprian Broodbank (Head of Department) [email protected] Research 16 Ben Davenport/ Anna O’Mahony (Department Administrator) [email protected]/[email protected] Material Culture 16 Katie Teague (Graduate Administrator) [email protected] Grahame Clark Zooarchaeology 17 Anna O’Mahony/James Walpole (Undergraduate Administrator) Charles McBurney Geoarchaeology 19 [email protected] Glyn Daniel Archaeogenetics 20 Faculty of Classics George Pitt-Rivers Archaeobotany and Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, UK Bioarchaeology 20 www.classics.cam.ac.uk Dorothy Garrod Laboratory for Isotopic Analysis 21 Reception +44 (0)1223 335151 or 335960 Computational & Digital Archaeology 22 Martin Millett (Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology) [email protected] The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Research Grants 23 Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK www.maa.cam.ac.uk Research Highlights 26 Nicholas Thomas (Director) [email protected] Heritage 26 Jody Joy (Senior Curator - Archaeology) [email protected] Chris Wingfield (Senior Curator - Archaeology) [email protected] Americas 26 Wendy Brown (Administrator) [email protected] Africa 27 The Fitzwilliam Museum Egypt 28 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB, UK Asia 29 www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk Middle East 31 General enquiries +44 (0)1223 332900 Europe and UK 34 Press enquiries +44 (0)1223 332941 Cambridge Archaeological Unit Events and Outreach 40 Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Seminars and Conferences 40 Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK Discussion Groups 41 www.cau.arch.cam.ac.uk Prehistory and Archaeology Day and Science Day 42 Samantha Smith (Administrator ) [email protected] Outreach 43 Christopher Evans (Executive Director) [email protected] Access Cambridge Archaeology 45 Cambridge Heritage Research Centre Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK Publications 46 www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk Cambridge Archaeological Journal 46 Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (Director) [email protected] McDonald Institute Monographs 47 Institute of Continuing Education Archaeological Review from Cambridge 49 Madingley Hall, Madingley, Cambridge, CB23 8AQ, UK Members’/Fellows’ Publications 49 www.ice.cam.ac.uk General enquiries +44 (0)1223 746222 Susan Oosthuizen (Reader in Medieval Archaeology) [email protected] Gilly Carr (University Senior Lecturer) [email protected] About us Introduction: The McDonald Institute and Archaeology at Cambridge CYPRIAN BROODBANK & JAMES H. BARRETT The 2017–18 academic year was one of exciting appoint Professor Marcos Martinón-Torres, formerly of developments for archaeology at Cambridge, including the UCL Institute of Archaeology, as his able successor, a new Tripos (undergraduate degree programme), new bringing new breadth and depth to materials science promotions, new appointments, new research awards, research at Cambridge. In a remarkable year, we have new jobs for our finishing postdocs and new research also been extremely fortunate to appoint further initiatives. The joining of forces between Archaeology colleagues. The renowned biomolecular archaeologist and Biological Anthropology, begun last year, has also Matthew Collins will join us as the McDonald Professor been a great success. Synergies are already yielding new of Palaeoproteomics, a post held concurrently with his projects and exciting new appointments seen in the Niels Bohr Professorship of Palaeoproteomics at the words and pages to follow. University of Copenhagen. Paul Lane, formerly Professor of Global Archaeology at Uppsala University, will take Our Tripos in Archaeology had an excellent start, up the newly created Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer attracting strong students from diverse backgrounds Professorship of the Deep History and Archaeology of and yielding high levels of student satisfaction. We Africa. Dr Emma Pomeroy (Lecturer in the Evolution look forward to the growth of this programme, and of Health, Diet and Disease) and Dr Nikhil Chaudhary all our degrees. Special thanks are owed to the active (Lecturer in Human Evolutionary and Behavioural outreach team for their work engaging with potential Ecology) will bring important new dimensions to high-achievers from all walks of life, with an interest Biological Anthropology. Dr Trisha Biers further in Archaeology, the Ancient Near East and Biological strengthens Biological Anthropology as Collections Anthropology. Manager of the Duckworth Laboratory. We congratulate Dr Susan Oosthuizen, Dr Tamsin Dr Jessica Beck, Dr Francesc Conesa, Dr Marc Gener O’Connell and Dr Susanne Hakenbeck for their Moret, Dr Monica Ramsay and Dr Laerke Recht joined well-deserved promotions to Professor, Reader and us as new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellows, having Senior Lecturer respectively. Our dearly appreciated secured these very competitive awards. Dr Christina colleague Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor Tsouparopoulou brought her Swedish Research Council of Archaeological Science since 1990, retired—with project on the Materiality and Memory of Ancient Near a congratulatory workshop and superb party at the Eastern Inscribed Private Objects to Cambridge. Three McDonald Institute and Darwin College respectively. new Research Associates also brought their skills to Martin continues to be an important presence as a Senior funded Departmental projects: Dr Rachel Ballantyne Fellow of the McDonald Institute. We were delighted to (RA for Catching the Past: Discovering the Legacy of Historic Atlantic Cod Exploitation using Ancient DNA), Dr Jacobus Saers (RA on The Effects of Mobility and Physical Activity on Human Postcranial Skeletal Variation) and Dr Gemma Tully (RA on Delivering Sustainable Heritage Strategies for Rural Egypt: Community and Archaeology at Tell el-Amarna). Dr Anna Stevens was appointed as a Senior Research Associate (also on the Community and Archaeology at Tell el-Amarna project) and Dr Erik Gjesfjeld was appointed to our flagship Renfrew Fellowship for a project on Modelling Technological Change with Archaeological Big Data. Not least, Sadie Watson (MOLA) and Joseph Kovacik joined us for one term each as Field Archaeologists in Residence. ART H IA C ATRI New research awards and grants entail further exciting P developments. Prof. Graeme Barker received a Shanghai Prof. Marcos Martinón-Torres and Prof. Martin Jones. Archaeological Forum award for his important work at Archaeology at Cambridge 2017–2018 1 About us the Niah Caves in Sarawak. set the scene. Postdoc Luc Moreau organized a Prof. Marie Louise Stig McDonald Institute conference on ‘Social Inequality Sørensen received a before Farming? Multidisciplinary Approaches to the major grant from the Investigation of Egalitarian and Non-egalitarian Social Shanghai Academy of Relationships in Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Societies’. Guyewang Studies for Prof. Lee R. Berger, (University of the Witwatersrand and the project Yangshao Explorer in Residence, The National Geographic Society) Culture: 100 Year Research delivered a special guest lecture on ‘Homo naledi and History and Heritage Australopithecus sediba—Discoveries Highlighting the Impact. Dr Enrico Crema Complexity of Human Origins’. The annual McDonald ONNER B was awarded a highly Lecture was delivered by Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin AURE L prestigious European (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Research Council (ERC) Leipzig), on the subject of ‘Modern Human Origins’. 2018 Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology (CASA) Starting Grant for research conference. on Demography, Cultural Our community of postgraduate students has also Change, and the Diffusion been as active as ever: organizing discussion groups, of Rice and Millet during the Jomon-Yayoi Transition hosting workshops, editing the Archaeological Review in Prehistoric Japan. Prof. Matthew Collins brings his from Cambridge (ARC) and giving international new European Research Council Advanced Grant, conference papers. Two of many highlights include the Beasts to Craft, which will study ancient parchments, Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference to Cambridge. The Department is also delighted to held in September and launch of the ARC special issue have been awarded a major Horizon 2020 Twinning
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