Dr Richard Madgwick
Darllenydd mewn Gwyddoniaeth Archaeolegol
Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
- MadgwickRD3@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 29208 74239
- Adeilad John Percival , Ystafell 4.01, Rhodfa Colum, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
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Research interests
I am a bioarchaeologist specialising in the study of animal remains. My research focuses broadly on reconstructing human-animal relations and I am particularly interested in the zooarchaeological analysis of feasting and mobility and the pre- and post-depositional treatment of human and faunal remains. My research generally involves integrating new and novel analytical techniques at the macroscopic, microscopic and molecular level, to achieve more nuanced interpretations from osseous remains. I am particularly interested in the later prehistory of Britain and north west Europe and am currently involved with programmes of isotope (δ15N, δ13C, δ34S, δ18O, 206Pb/204Pb, 87Sr/86Sr), taphonomic and histological analysis, as well as Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and cementum banding research. I also undertake human osteological analysis and have recently been involved in projects with National Museum Wales, Archaeology Wales Cardiff Archaeology Society and Brython Archaeology.
Research Projects
I completed a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship on the project Reconstructing the Feasts of Late Neolithic Britain in 2016. I am currently working on a project funded by the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Society for Medieval Archaeology on the Dietary Impact of the Norman Conquest (with Ben Jervis, Cardiff and Lizzy Craig-Atkins, Sheffield and Lucy Cramp, Bristol). I am also continuing research on Early Iron Age feasting in Southern Britain (with Angela Lamb, NIGL and Sandra Nedebragt, Cardiff). Pilot research projects include provisioning the Roman army in South Wales (with Peter Guest, Cardiff and Jamie Lewis, Bristol), husbandry and mobility in the Middle Neolithic of the Stonehenge landscape (with Fay Worley and Ruth Pelling, Historic England), feasting at Navan Fort, the legendary capital of Ancient Ulster (with Finbar McCormick, Queen's Belfast and Vaughan Grimes, Memorial Newfoundland) and Iron Age mortuary practice (with Tom Booth, Natural History Museum). I am also still involved in the Dama International project on which I used to be a post-doc, which focuses on the biogeography and environmental/social significance of the European fallow deer. I am engaged in bioarchaeological research on international projects at Çatalhöyük (Turkey), Butrint (Albania) and Praisos (Crete) as well as several British projects.
Impact and engagement
Engagement activities are central to my research and I’m an active member of the Guerilla Archaeology collective, having been involved in outreach at more than ten arts/music festivals and events. I have also been inducted as a STEM ambassador. I am also involved with the Operation Nightingale project at East Chisenbury, a collaborative project involving the rehabilitation of military veterans. I run sessions for the Cardiff Young Archaeologist Club. My 2015 Antiquity paper (with Jacqui Mulville, Cardiff) was reported on in The Times (20th June 2015), The Metro (13th August 2015), The New Scientist (15th August 2015), the BBC News website, the ITV News website and various other global media outlets. I was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales concerning the Norman Diet project on the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Madgwick, R., Esposito, C. and Lamb, A. 2023. Farming and feasting during the Bronze Age–Iron Age transition in Britain (ca. 900–500 bce): multi-isotope evidence for societal change. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 2, article number: 122158. (10.3389/fearc.2023.1221581)
- Guest, P., Ma, H., Mion, L., Lamb, A. L. and Madgwick, R. 2023. Feeding the Roman army in Britain. Antiquity (10.15184/aqy.2023.110)
- Madgwick, R. and Bricking, A. 2023. Exploring mortuary practices: Histotaphonomic analysis of the human remains and associated fauna. In: Guarino, P. and Barclay, A. eds. In the Shadow of Segsbury: The Archaoelogy of the H380 Childrey Warren Water Pipeline, Oxfordshire, 2018-20. Cotswold Archaeology Monograph Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology, pp. 96-102.
- Mavroudas, S. R., Alfsdotter, C., Bricking, A. and Madgwick, R. 2023. Experimental investigation of histotaphonomic changes in human bone from whole-body donors demonstrates limited effects of early post-mortem change in bone. Journal of Archaeological Science 154, article number: 105789. (10.1016/j.jas.2023.105789)
2022
- Evans, J. A. et al. 2022. Applying lead (Pb) isotopes to explore mobility in humans and animals. PLoS ONE 17(10), article number: e0274831. (10.1371/journal.pone.0274831)
- Booth, T. J., Bronnimann, D., Madgwick, R. and Portmann, C. 2022. The taphonomic and archaeothanatological potentials of diagenetic alterations of archaeological bone. In: Knusel, C. J. and Schotsmans, E. M. J. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour. Routledge, pp. 580-599.
- Bricking, A., Hayes, A. and Madgwick, R. 2022. An interim report on histological analysis of human bones from Fishmonger's Swallet, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Speleological Society 29(1), pp. 67-86.
2021
- Holt, E., Evans, J. A. and Madgwick, R. 2021. Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) mapping: A critical review of methods and approaches. Earth-Science Reviews 216, article number: 103593. (10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103593)
- Scorrer, J. et al. 2021. Diversity aboard a Tudor warship: investigating the origins of the Mary Rose crew using multi-isotope analysis. Royal Society Open Science 8(5), article number: 202106. (10.1098/rsos.202106)
- Madgwick, R., Lamb, A., Sloane, H., Nederbragt, A., Albarella, U., Parker Pearson, M. and Evans, J. 2021. A veritable confusion: use and abuse of isotope analysis in archaeology. Archaeological Journal 178(2), pp. 361-385. (10.1080/00665983.2021.1911099)
- Dunne, J. et al. 2021. Finding Oxford's medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13, article number: 48. (10.1007/s12520-021-01282-8)
- Madgwick, R. 2021. The beaker people: isotopes, mobility and diet in prehistoric Britain, edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Michael P. Richards and Jane Evans [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 178(2), pp. 386-390. (10.1080/00665983.2021.1894769)
- Andrews, P. et al. 2021. East Chisenbury Midden 2015−17: further investigations of the late prehistoric midden deposits, enclosure and associated settlement. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 114, pp. 84-121.
- Walker, E., Chapman, E., Chivall, D., Faillace, K., Hodkinson, P., Madgwick, R. and O'Regan, H. 2021. Carreg Cennen Castle Cave, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire: a review of the work undertaken by T. C. Cantrill in 1900. Archaeologia Cambrensis 170, pp. 67-76.
2020
- Jones, J., Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2020. Animal management and marine resource use: the stable isotope evidence. In: Sharples, N. ed. The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2a, Bornais, South Uist., Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 361-367.
- Faillace, K., Foody, M. and Madgwick, R. 2020. Exploring the potential of TEM analysis for understanding cooking at prehistoric feasting sites. Scientific Reports 10, article number: 13635. (10.1038/s41598-020-70628-4)
- Craig-Atkins, E. et al. 2020. The dietary impact of the Norman Conquest: a multiproxy archaeological investigation of Oxford, UK. PLoS ONE 15(7), article number: e0235005. (10.1371/journal.pone.0235005)
- Roberts, D. et al. 2020. Middle Neolithic pits and a burial at West Amesbury, Wiltshire. Archaeological Journal 177(2), pp. 167-213. (10.1080/00665983.2020.1758495)
- Madgwick, R. 2020. Isotopic investigations of pastoralism in prehistory, edited by A. Ventresca Miller and C. Makarewicz. [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 177(2), pp. 484-485. (10.1080/00665983.2019.1698855)
2019
- Madgwick, R., Grimes, V., Lamb, A. L., Nederbragt, A. J., Evans, J. A. and McCormick, F. 2019. Feasting and mobility in Iron Age Ireland: Multi-isotope analysis reveals the vast catchment of Navan Fort, Ulster. Scientific Reports 9(1), article number: 19792. (10.1038/s41598-019-55671-0)
- Evans, J., Parker Pearson, M., Madgwick, R., Sloane, H. and Albarella, U. 2019. Strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for the origin and movement of cattle at Late Neolithic Durrington Walls, UK. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(10), pp. 5181-5197. (10.1007/s12520-019-00849-w)
- Madgwick, R. 2019. Diet and economy: The faunal evidence. In: Greenslade, S. ed. Butrint 6 Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Volume 2: The Finds. Butrint Archaeological Monographs Oxbow, pp. 209-226.
- Law, M. and Madgwick, R. 2019. Hand collected shell. In: Greenslade, S. ed. Butrint 6 Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Volume 2: The Finds. Butrint Archaeological Monographs Oxbow, pp. 237-244.
- Worley, F. et al. 2019. Understanding Middle Neolithic food and farming in and around the Stonehenge World Heritage Site: An integrated approach. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26, article number: 101838. (10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.05.003)
- Madgwick, R. 2019. Taphonomy and depositional history at Potterne, Wiltshire. In: Baker, P. and Worley, F. eds. Animal Bones and Archaeology: Recovery to Archive. Swindon: Historic England, pp. 64-65.
- Madgwick, R., Lamb, A. L., Sloane, H., Nederbragt, A. J., Albarella, U., Parker Pearson, M. and Evans, J. A. 2019. Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain. Science Advances 5(3), article number: eaau6078. (10.1126/sciadv.aau6078)
- Madgwick, R., Lewis, J., Grimes, V. and Guest, P. 2019. On the hoof: exploring the supply of animals to the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon using strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, pp. 223-235. (10.1007/s12520-017-0539-9)
- Waddington, K., Bayliss, A., Higham, T., Madgwick, R. and Sharples, N. 2019. Histories of deposition: creating chronology for the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition in Southern Britain. Archaeological Journal 176(1), pp. 84-133. (10.1080/00665983.2018.1504859)
- Madgwick, R. and Roberts, A. 2019. The human teeth [Section within The Animal and Human Bone]. In: Lane, A. and Redknap, M. eds. Llangorse Crannog: The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 191.
2018
- Whitley, J. and Madgwick, R. 2018. Consuming the wild: more thoughts on the andreion. In: van den Ejinde, F., Biok, J. and Strootman, R. eds. Feasting and Polis Institutions. Leiden: Brill, pp. 125-148.
- Evans, J., Pashley, V., Madgwick, R., Neil, S. and Chenery, C. 2018. Tracking natural and anthropogenic Pb exposure to its geological source. Scientific Reports 8, article number: 1969. (10.1038/s41598-018-20397-y)
- Livarda, A., Madgwick, R. and Riera, S. 2018. The bioarchaeology of ritual and religion. Oxford: Oxbow.
- Livarda, A. and Madgwick, R. 2018. Ritual and religion: bioarchaeological perspectives. In: Livarda, A., Madgwick, R. and Riera, S. eds. The Biaorchaeology of Ritual and Religion. Oxford: Oxbow
- Jones, I., Williams, D., Williams, S., Carruthers, W., Madgwick, R. and Young, T. 2018. Early medieval enclosure at Glanfred, near Llandre, Ceredigion.. Archaeologia Cambrensis 167, pp. 221-243.
- Drnic, I., Trimmis, K., Hale, A., Madgwick, R., Reed, K., Barbir, A. and Maderic, M. 2018. Assemblages from marginal apaces: The results of the excavations in Mala (Nova) Pećina near Muć and the Neolithic of Dalmatinska Zagora. Prilozi Instituta Za Arheologiju U Zagrebu 35, pp. 29-70.
2017
- Twiss, K. et al. 2017. Horses, hemiones, hydruntines? assessing the reliability of dental criteria for assigning species to Southwest Asian equid remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27(2), pp. 298-304. (10.1002/oa.2524)
- Madgwick, R., Grimes, V., Lamb, A. and McCormick, F. 2017. Isotope analysis reveals that feasts at Navan Fort, Ulster, drew people and animals from across Ireland. PAST 87, pp. 15-16.
- Bayliss, A., Cartwright, C., Cook, G., Griffiths, S., Madgwick, R., Marshall, P. and Reimer, P. 2017. Rings of fire and Grooved Ware settlement at West Kennet, Wiltshire. In: Bickle, P. et al. eds. The Neolithic of Europe. Oxbow, pp. 249-278.
2016
- Valenzuela, A. et al. 2016. Both introduced and extinct: The fallow deer of Roman Mallorca. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9, pp. 168-177. (10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.038)
- Madgwick, R., Redknap, M. and Davies, B. 2016. Illuminating Lesser Garth Cave, Cardiff: the human remains and post-Roman archaeology in context. Archaeologia Cambrensis 165, pp. 201-229.
- Sykes, N. et al. 2016. Wild to domestic and back again: the dynamics of fallow deer management in medieval England (c. 11th-16th century AD). Science & Technology of Archaeological Research (10.1080/20548923.2016.1208027)
- Madgwick, R. 2016. New light on feasting and deposition: exploring accumulation history through taphonomic analysis at later prehistoric middens in Britain. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8, pp. 329-341. (10.1007/s12520-015-0271-2)
- Booth, T. J. and Madgwick, R. 2016. New evidence for diverse secondary burial practices in Iron Age Britain: A histological case study. Journal of Archaeological Science 67, pp. 14-24. (10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.010)
- Miller, H., Carden, R., Lamb, A., Madgwick, R., Osborne, D., Symmons, R. and Sykes, N. 2016. Dead or alive? Investigating long-distance transport of live fallow deer and their body-parts in Antiquity. Environmental Archaeology 21(3), pp. 246-259. (10.1179/1749631414Y.0000000043)
- Gwilt, A., Lodwick, M., Deacon, J., Wells, N., Madgwick, R. and Young, T. 2016. Ephemeral Abundance at Llanmaes: Exploring the residues and resonances of an Earliest Iron Age midden and its associated archaeological context in the Vale of Glamorgan. In: Koch, J. and Cunliffe, B. eds. Celtic from the West 3. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 277-303.
2015
- Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2015. Feasting on fore-limbs: Conspicuous consumption and identity in later prehistoric Britain. Antiquity 89(345), pp. 629-644. (10.15184/aqy.2015.24)
- Madgwick, R. 2015. These bare bones: raw materials and the study of osseous objects, edited by A. Choyke and S. O’Connor. [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 172(2), pp. 498-499. (10.1080/00665983.2014.985045)
- Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2015. Reconstructing depositional histories through bone taphonomy: extending the potential of faunal data. Journal of Archaeological Science 53, pp. 255-263. (10.1016/j.jas.2014.10.015)
- Baker, K., Carden, R. and Madgwick, R. eds. 2015. Deer and people. Windgather Press.
- Smith, G. et al. 2015. Snail Cave rock shelter, North Wales: a new prehistoric site. Archaeologia Cambrensis 163, pp. 99-131.
- Smith, G. et al. 2015. Rescue excavation at the Bronze Age copper smelting site at Pentrwyn, Great Orme, Llandudno, Conwy. Archaeology in Wales 54, pp. 53-71.
- Madgwick, R. and Hodkinson, P. 2015. The animal bones. In: Davis, O. and Sharples, N. eds. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2014: An Interim Report. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Vol. 35. Cardiff: Cardiff University School of History, Archaeology and Religion, pp. 66-72.
2014
- Smith, G. et al. 2014. A late Bronze Age/early Iron Age hilltop enclosure with evidence of Early and Middle Neolithic and Early Medieval Settlement at Carrog, Llanbadrig, Anglesey.. Studia Celtica 48(1), pp. 55-92.
- Davis, O., Young, T., Pannett, A. and Madgwick, R. 2014. Excavations of a second iron age enclosure on Winnall Down, Winchester, Hampshire, 2006. Hampshire Studies 69, pp. 23-48.
- Madgwick, R. 2014. What makes bones shiny? Investigating trampling as a cause of bone abrasion. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6(2), pp. 163-173. (10.1007/s12520-013-0165-0)
- Madgwick, R. 2014. Taphonomy and depositional history at Potterne, Wiltshire. In: Baker, P. and Worley, F. eds. Animal Bones and Archaeology: Guidelines for Best Practice. English Heritage, pp. 45-46.
2013
- Madgwick, R., Forest, V. and Beglane, F. 2013. Syndactyly in pigs: A review of previous research and the presentation of eight archaeological specimens. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 23(4), pp. 395-409. (10.1002/oa.1260)
- Madgwick, R., Sykes, N., Miller, H., Symmons, R., Morris, J. and Lamb, A. 2013. Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain (In Press). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 5(1), pp. 111-122. (10.1007/s12520-013-0120-0)
2012
- Madgwick, R., Mulville, J. and Stevens, R. E. 2012. Diversity in foddering strategy and herd management in late Bronze Age Britain: an isotopic investigation of pigs and other fauna from two midden sites. Environmental Archaeology 17(2), pp. 126-140. (10.1179/1461410312Z.00000000011)
- Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2012. Investigating variation in the prevalence of weathering in faunal assemblages in the UK: a multivariate statistical approach. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 22(5), pp. 509-522. (10.1002/oa.1274)
- Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Madgwick, R., Brugal, J. and Moreno-García, M. 2012. New perspectives on taphonomy. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 22(5), pp. 505-508. (10.1002/oa.1270)
- Mulville, J. and Madgwick, R. 2012. The animal bones from Frobost. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Sheffield Environmental and Archeaological Research Campaign in the Hebrides Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 276.
- Mulville, J., Madgwick, R., Powell, A. and Parker Pearson, M. 2012. Flesh on the bones: animal bodies in Atlantic roundhouses. In: Pluskowski, A. ed. The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals: European Perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 205-219.
- Madgwick, R., Stevens, R. and O'Connell, T. 2012. Isotopic analysis of the fauna. In: Sharples, N. M. ed. An Iron Age Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 1. Bornais, South Uist.. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 243-246.
- Madgwick, R. 2012. The natural history of a neglected species. Deer: The Journal of the British Deer Society, pp. 26-27.
- Mulville, J. and Madgwick, R. 2012. The animal bones from Sligeanach. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 238-241.
- Mulville, J. and Madgwick, R. 2012. The animal bones from Aisgernis. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 282-283.
- Madgwick, R., Mulville, J. and Evans, J. 2012. Investigating diagenesis and the suitability of porcine enamel for strontium (Sr-87/Sr-86) isotope analysis. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 27(5), pp. 733-742. (10.1039/C2JA10356G)
2011
- Madgwick, R., Mulville, J. and Stevens, R. 2011. Raising pigs (and other animals) in Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Britain. PAST 69, pp. 13-15.
- Madgwick, R. 2011. The faunal assemblage. In: Waddington, K. and Sharples, N. eds. The Excavations at Whitchurch2006-2009: An Interim Report. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Vol. 31. Cardiff: School of History, Archaeology and Religion, pp. 53-55.
2010
- Madgwick, R. 2010. Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex. In: Morris, J. and Maltby, M. eds. Integrating Social and Environmental Archaeologies: Reconsidering Deposition. BAR international series Vol. 2177. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 66-82.
2009
- Mulville, J., Madgwick, R., Stevens, R., O'Connell, T., Powell, A., Sharples, N. M. and Parker Pearson, M. 2009. Isotopic analysis of faunal material from South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, pp. 51-59. (10.3721/037.002.0106)
- Baker, S., Gray, A., Lakin, K., Madgwick, R., Poole, K. and Sandias, M. 2009. Food and drink in Archaeology 2. Totnes: Prospect.
2008
- Redknap, M., Madgwick, R., Davies, B., Gwilt, A. and Cox, M. 2008. The Lesser Garth Cave human remains: An interim statement. Archaeology in Wales 48, pp. 75-77.
- Madgwick, R. 2008. Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate. Presented at: 8th Annual Iron Age Research Student Seminar, Cardiff, UK, 18-19 May 2006 Presented at Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Waddington, K. E. eds.Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC: Proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2006. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow Books pp. 99-118.
- Madgwick, R. 2008. IFA workplace training. The Archaeologist 69, pp. 46-47.
- Madgwick, R. 2008. Benefits of bursaries: Zooarchaeology at Cardiff. The Archaeologist 67, pp. 7-7.
Articles
- Madgwick, R., Esposito, C. and Lamb, A. 2023. Farming and feasting during the Bronze Age–Iron Age transition in Britain (ca. 900–500 bce): multi-isotope evidence for societal change. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 2, article number: 122158. (10.3389/fearc.2023.1221581)
- Guest, P., Ma, H., Mion, L., Lamb, A. L. and Madgwick, R. 2023. Feeding the Roman army in Britain. Antiquity (10.15184/aqy.2023.110)
- Mavroudas, S. R., Alfsdotter, C., Bricking, A. and Madgwick, R. 2023. Experimental investigation of histotaphonomic changes in human bone from whole-body donors demonstrates limited effects of early post-mortem change in bone. Journal of Archaeological Science 154, article number: 105789. (10.1016/j.jas.2023.105789)
- Evans, J. A. et al. 2022. Applying lead (Pb) isotopes to explore mobility in humans and animals. PLoS ONE 17(10), article number: e0274831. (10.1371/journal.pone.0274831)
- Bricking, A., Hayes, A. and Madgwick, R. 2022. An interim report on histological analysis of human bones from Fishmonger's Swallet, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Speleological Society 29(1), pp. 67-86.
- Holt, E., Evans, J. A. and Madgwick, R. 2021. Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) mapping: A critical review of methods and approaches. Earth-Science Reviews 216, article number: 103593. (10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103593)
- Scorrer, J. et al. 2021. Diversity aboard a Tudor warship: investigating the origins of the Mary Rose crew using multi-isotope analysis. Royal Society Open Science 8(5), article number: 202106. (10.1098/rsos.202106)
- Madgwick, R., Lamb, A., Sloane, H., Nederbragt, A., Albarella, U., Parker Pearson, M. and Evans, J. 2021. A veritable confusion: use and abuse of isotope analysis in archaeology. Archaeological Journal 178(2), pp. 361-385. (10.1080/00665983.2021.1911099)
- Dunne, J. et al. 2021. Finding Oxford's medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13, article number: 48. (10.1007/s12520-021-01282-8)
- Madgwick, R. 2021. The beaker people: isotopes, mobility and diet in prehistoric Britain, edited by Mike Parker Pearson, Alison Sheridan, Mandy Jay, Andrew Chamberlain, Michael P. Richards and Jane Evans [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 178(2), pp. 386-390. (10.1080/00665983.2021.1894769)
- Andrews, P. et al. 2021. East Chisenbury Midden 2015−17: further investigations of the late prehistoric midden deposits, enclosure and associated settlement. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 114, pp. 84-121.
- Walker, E., Chapman, E., Chivall, D., Faillace, K., Hodkinson, P., Madgwick, R. and O'Regan, H. 2021. Carreg Cennen Castle Cave, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire: a review of the work undertaken by T. C. Cantrill in 1900. Archaeologia Cambrensis 170, pp. 67-76.
- Faillace, K., Foody, M. and Madgwick, R. 2020. Exploring the potential of TEM analysis for understanding cooking at prehistoric feasting sites. Scientific Reports 10, article number: 13635. (10.1038/s41598-020-70628-4)
- Craig-Atkins, E. et al. 2020. The dietary impact of the Norman Conquest: a multiproxy archaeological investigation of Oxford, UK. PLoS ONE 15(7), article number: e0235005. (10.1371/journal.pone.0235005)
- Roberts, D. et al. 2020. Middle Neolithic pits and a burial at West Amesbury, Wiltshire. Archaeological Journal 177(2), pp. 167-213. (10.1080/00665983.2020.1758495)
- Madgwick, R. 2020. Isotopic investigations of pastoralism in prehistory, edited by A. Ventresca Miller and C. Makarewicz. [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 177(2), pp. 484-485. (10.1080/00665983.2019.1698855)
- Madgwick, R., Grimes, V., Lamb, A. L., Nederbragt, A. J., Evans, J. A. and McCormick, F. 2019. Feasting and mobility in Iron Age Ireland: Multi-isotope analysis reveals the vast catchment of Navan Fort, Ulster. Scientific Reports 9(1), article number: 19792. (10.1038/s41598-019-55671-0)
- Evans, J., Parker Pearson, M., Madgwick, R., Sloane, H. and Albarella, U. 2019. Strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for the origin and movement of cattle at Late Neolithic Durrington Walls, UK. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(10), pp. 5181-5197. (10.1007/s12520-019-00849-w)
- Worley, F. et al. 2019. Understanding Middle Neolithic food and farming in and around the Stonehenge World Heritage Site: An integrated approach. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26, article number: 101838. (10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.05.003)
- Madgwick, R., Lamb, A. L., Sloane, H., Nederbragt, A. J., Albarella, U., Parker Pearson, M. and Evans, J. A. 2019. Multi-isotope analysis reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge environs and across Wessex drew people and animals from throughout Britain. Science Advances 5(3), article number: eaau6078. (10.1126/sciadv.aau6078)
- Madgwick, R., Lewis, J., Grimes, V. and Guest, P. 2019. On the hoof: exploring the supply of animals to the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon using strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, pp. 223-235. (10.1007/s12520-017-0539-9)
- Waddington, K., Bayliss, A., Higham, T., Madgwick, R. and Sharples, N. 2019. Histories of deposition: creating chronology for the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition in Southern Britain. Archaeological Journal 176(1), pp. 84-133. (10.1080/00665983.2018.1504859)
- Evans, J., Pashley, V., Madgwick, R., Neil, S. and Chenery, C. 2018. Tracking natural and anthropogenic Pb exposure to its geological source. Scientific Reports 8, article number: 1969. (10.1038/s41598-018-20397-y)
- Jones, I., Williams, D., Williams, S., Carruthers, W., Madgwick, R. and Young, T. 2018. Early medieval enclosure at Glanfred, near Llandre, Ceredigion.. Archaeologia Cambrensis 167, pp. 221-243.
- Drnic, I., Trimmis, K., Hale, A., Madgwick, R., Reed, K., Barbir, A. and Maderic, M. 2018. Assemblages from marginal apaces: The results of the excavations in Mala (Nova) Pećina near Muć and the Neolithic of Dalmatinska Zagora. Prilozi Instituta Za Arheologiju U Zagrebu 35, pp. 29-70.
- Twiss, K. et al. 2017. Horses, hemiones, hydruntines? assessing the reliability of dental criteria for assigning species to Southwest Asian equid remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27(2), pp. 298-304. (10.1002/oa.2524)
- Madgwick, R., Grimes, V., Lamb, A. and McCormick, F. 2017. Isotope analysis reveals that feasts at Navan Fort, Ulster, drew people and animals from across Ireland. PAST 87, pp. 15-16.
- Valenzuela, A. et al. 2016. Both introduced and extinct: The fallow deer of Roman Mallorca. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 9, pp. 168-177. (10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.038)
- Madgwick, R., Redknap, M. and Davies, B. 2016. Illuminating Lesser Garth Cave, Cardiff: the human remains and post-Roman archaeology in context. Archaeologia Cambrensis 165, pp. 201-229.
- Sykes, N. et al. 2016. Wild to domestic and back again: the dynamics of fallow deer management in medieval England (c. 11th-16th century AD). Science & Technology of Archaeological Research (10.1080/20548923.2016.1208027)
- Madgwick, R. 2016. New light on feasting and deposition: exploring accumulation history through taphonomic analysis at later prehistoric middens in Britain. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8, pp. 329-341. (10.1007/s12520-015-0271-2)
- Booth, T. J. and Madgwick, R. 2016. New evidence for diverse secondary burial practices in Iron Age Britain: A histological case study. Journal of Archaeological Science 67, pp. 14-24. (10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.010)
- Miller, H., Carden, R., Lamb, A., Madgwick, R., Osborne, D., Symmons, R. and Sykes, N. 2016. Dead or alive? Investigating long-distance transport of live fallow deer and their body-parts in Antiquity. Environmental Archaeology 21(3), pp. 246-259. (10.1179/1749631414Y.0000000043)
- Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2015. Feasting on fore-limbs: Conspicuous consumption and identity in later prehistoric Britain. Antiquity 89(345), pp. 629-644. (10.15184/aqy.2015.24)
- Madgwick, R. 2015. These bare bones: raw materials and the study of osseous objects, edited by A. Choyke and S. O’Connor. [Book Review]. Archaeological Journal 172(2), pp. 498-499. (10.1080/00665983.2014.985045)
- Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2015. Reconstructing depositional histories through bone taphonomy: extending the potential of faunal data. Journal of Archaeological Science 53, pp. 255-263. (10.1016/j.jas.2014.10.015)
- Smith, G. et al. 2015. Snail Cave rock shelter, North Wales: a new prehistoric site. Archaeologia Cambrensis 163, pp. 99-131.
- Smith, G. et al. 2015. Rescue excavation at the Bronze Age copper smelting site at Pentrwyn, Great Orme, Llandudno, Conwy. Archaeology in Wales 54, pp. 53-71.
- Smith, G. et al. 2014. A late Bronze Age/early Iron Age hilltop enclosure with evidence of Early and Middle Neolithic and Early Medieval Settlement at Carrog, Llanbadrig, Anglesey.. Studia Celtica 48(1), pp. 55-92.
- Davis, O., Young, T., Pannett, A. and Madgwick, R. 2014. Excavations of a second iron age enclosure on Winnall Down, Winchester, Hampshire, 2006. Hampshire Studies 69, pp. 23-48.
- Madgwick, R. 2014. What makes bones shiny? Investigating trampling as a cause of bone abrasion. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6(2), pp. 163-173. (10.1007/s12520-013-0165-0)
- Madgwick, R., Forest, V. and Beglane, F. 2013. Syndactyly in pigs: A review of previous research and the presentation of eight archaeological specimens. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 23(4), pp. 395-409. (10.1002/oa.1260)
- Madgwick, R., Sykes, N., Miller, H., Symmons, R., Morris, J. and Lamb, A. 2013. Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain (In Press). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 5(1), pp. 111-122. (10.1007/s12520-013-0120-0)
- Madgwick, R., Mulville, J. and Stevens, R. E. 2012. Diversity in foddering strategy and herd management in late Bronze Age Britain: an isotopic investigation of pigs and other fauna from two midden sites. Environmental Archaeology 17(2), pp. 126-140. (10.1179/1461410312Z.00000000011)
- Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2012. Investigating variation in the prevalence of weathering in faunal assemblages in the UK: a multivariate statistical approach. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 22(5), pp. 509-522. (10.1002/oa.1274)
- Marín-Arroyo, A. B., Madgwick, R., Brugal, J. and Moreno-García, M. 2012. New perspectives on taphonomy. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 22(5), pp. 505-508. (10.1002/oa.1270)
- Madgwick, R. 2012. The natural history of a neglected species. Deer: The Journal of the British Deer Society, pp. 26-27.
- Madgwick, R., Mulville, J. and Evans, J. 2012. Investigating diagenesis and the suitability of porcine enamel for strontium (Sr-87/Sr-86) isotope analysis. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 27(5), pp. 733-742. (10.1039/C2JA10356G)
- Madgwick, R., Mulville, J. and Stevens, R. 2011. Raising pigs (and other animals) in Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Britain. PAST 69, pp. 13-15.
- Mulville, J., Madgwick, R., Stevens, R., O'Connell, T., Powell, A., Sharples, N. M. and Parker Pearson, M. 2009. Isotopic analysis of faunal material from South Uist, Western Isles, Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, pp. 51-59. (10.3721/037.002.0106)
- Redknap, M., Madgwick, R., Davies, B., Gwilt, A. and Cox, M. 2008. The Lesser Garth Cave human remains: An interim statement. Archaeology in Wales 48, pp. 75-77.
- Madgwick, R. 2008. IFA workplace training. The Archaeologist 69, pp. 46-47.
- Madgwick, R. 2008. Benefits of bursaries: Zooarchaeology at Cardiff. The Archaeologist 67, pp. 7-7.
Book sections
- Madgwick, R. and Bricking, A. 2023. Exploring mortuary practices: Histotaphonomic analysis of the human remains and associated fauna. In: Guarino, P. and Barclay, A. eds. In the Shadow of Segsbury: The Archaoelogy of the H380 Childrey Warren Water Pipeline, Oxfordshire, 2018-20. Cotswold Archaeology Monograph Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology, pp. 96-102.
- Booth, T. J., Bronnimann, D., Madgwick, R. and Portmann, C. 2022. The taphonomic and archaeothanatological potentials of diagenetic alterations of archaeological bone. In: Knusel, C. J. and Schotsmans, E. M. J. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology: Bioarchaeology of Mortuary Behaviour. Routledge, pp. 580-599.
- Jones, J., Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2020. Animal management and marine resource use: the stable isotope evidence. In: Sharples, N. ed. The Economy of a Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mounds 2 and 2a, Bornais, South Uist., Vol. 4. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 361-367.
- Madgwick, R. 2019. Diet and economy: The faunal evidence. In: Greenslade, S. ed. Butrint 6 Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Volume 2: The Finds. Butrint Archaeological Monographs Oxbow, pp. 209-226.
- Law, M. and Madgwick, R. 2019. Hand collected shell. In: Greenslade, S. ed. Butrint 6 Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Volume 2: The Finds. Butrint Archaeological Monographs Oxbow, pp. 237-244.
- Madgwick, R. 2019. Taphonomy and depositional history at Potterne, Wiltshire. In: Baker, P. and Worley, F. eds. Animal Bones and Archaeology: Recovery to Archive. Swindon: Historic England, pp. 64-65.
- Madgwick, R. and Roberts, A. 2019. The human teeth [Section within The Animal and Human Bone]. In: Lane, A. and Redknap, M. eds. Llangorse Crannog: The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 191.
- Whitley, J. and Madgwick, R. 2018. Consuming the wild: more thoughts on the andreion. In: van den Ejinde, F., Biok, J. and Strootman, R. eds. Feasting and Polis Institutions. Leiden: Brill, pp. 125-148.
- Livarda, A. and Madgwick, R. 2018. Ritual and religion: bioarchaeological perspectives. In: Livarda, A., Madgwick, R. and Riera, S. eds. The Biaorchaeology of Ritual and Religion. Oxford: Oxbow
- Bayliss, A., Cartwright, C., Cook, G., Griffiths, S., Madgwick, R., Marshall, P. and Reimer, P. 2017. Rings of fire and Grooved Ware settlement at West Kennet, Wiltshire. In: Bickle, P. et al. eds. The Neolithic of Europe. Oxbow, pp. 249-278.
- Gwilt, A., Lodwick, M., Deacon, J., Wells, N., Madgwick, R. and Young, T. 2016. Ephemeral Abundance at Llanmaes: Exploring the residues and resonances of an Earliest Iron Age midden and its associated archaeological context in the Vale of Glamorgan. In: Koch, J. and Cunliffe, B. eds. Celtic from the West 3. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 277-303.
- Madgwick, R. and Hodkinson, P. 2015. The animal bones. In: Davis, O. and Sharples, N. eds. Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, South Wales, 2014: An Interim Report. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Vol. 35. Cardiff: Cardiff University School of History, Archaeology and Religion, pp. 66-72.
- Madgwick, R. 2014. Taphonomy and depositional history at Potterne, Wiltshire. In: Baker, P. and Worley, F. eds. Animal Bones and Archaeology: Guidelines for Best Practice. English Heritage, pp. 45-46.
- Mulville, J. and Madgwick, R. 2012. The animal bones from Frobost. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Sheffield Environmental and Archeaological Research Campaign in the Hebrides Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 276.
- Mulville, J., Madgwick, R., Powell, A. and Parker Pearson, M. 2012. Flesh on the bones: animal bodies in Atlantic roundhouses. In: Pluskowski, A. ed. The Ritual Killing and Burial of Animals: European Perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 205-219.
- Madgwick, R., Stevens, R. and O'Connell, T. 2012. Isotopic analysis of the fauna. In: Sharples, N. M. ed. An Iron Age Farmstead in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations at Mound 1. Bornais, South Uist.. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 243-246.
- Mulville, J. and Madgwick, R. 2012. The animal bones from Sligeanach. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 238-241.
- Mulville, J. and Madgwick, R. 2012. The animal bones from Aisgernis. In: Parker Pearson, M. ed. From Machair to Mountains: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in South Uist. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 282-283.
- Madgwick, R. 2011. The faunal assemblage. In: Waddington, K. and Sharples, N. eds. The Excavations at Whitchurch2006-2009: An Interim Report. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Vol. 31. Cardiff: School of History, Archaeology and Religion, pp. 53-55.
- Madgwick, R. 2010. Bone modification and the conceptual relationship between humans and animals in Iron Age Wessex. In: Morris, J. and Maltby, M. eds. Integrating Social and Environmental Archaeologies: Reconsidering Deposition. BAR international series Vol. 2177. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 66-82.
Books
- Livarda, A., Madgwick, R. and Riera, S. 2018. The bioarchaeology of ritual and religion. Oxford: Oxbow.
- Baker, K., Carden, R. and Madgwick, R. eds. 2015. Deer and people. Windgather Press.
- Baker, S., Gray, A., Lakin, K., Madgwick, R., Poole, K. and Sandias, M. 2009. Food and drink in Archaeology 2. Totnes: Prospect.
Conferences
- Madgwick, R. 2008. Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate. Presented at: 8th Annual Iron Age Research Student Seminar, Cardiff, UK, 18-19 May 2006 Presented at Davis, O., Sharples, N. M. and Waddington, K. E. eds.Changing Perspectives on the First Millennium BC: Proceedings of the Iron Age Research Student Seminar 2006. Cardiff Studies in Archaeology Oxford: Oxbow Books pp. 99-118.
- Madgwick, R., Forest, V. and Beglane, F. 2013. Syndactyly in pigs: A review of previous research and the presentation of eight archaeological specimens. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 23(4), pp. 395-409. (10.1002/oa.1260)
- Madgwick, R., Sykes, N., Miller, H., Symmons, R., Morris, J. and Lamb, A. 2013. Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain (In Press). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 5(1), pp. 111-122. (10.1007/s12520-013-0120-0)
- Madgwick, R., Mulville, J. and Stevens, R. E. 2012. Diversity in foddering strategy and herd management in late Bronze Age Britain: an isotopic investigation of pigs and other fauna from two midden sites. Environmental Archaeology 17(2), pp. 126-140. (10.1179/1461410312Z.00000000011)
- Madgwick, R. and Mulville, J. 2012. Investigating variation in the prevalence of weathering in faunal assemblages in the UK: a multivariate statistical approach. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 22(5), pp. 509-522. (10.1002/oa.1274)
Ymchwil
Reconstructing the Feasts of Late Neolithic Britain
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship to undertake research on feasting and mobility in Late Neolithic Britain. The three year project (2013-6) reconstructed the networks that the great monument complexes such as Stonehenge of supported. The research focused on faunal remains from a range of complexes and has generated the largest multi-isotope dataset using five systems (δ15N, δ13C, δ34S, δ18O,87Sr/86Sr) yet produced in archaeological research. The data demonstrated a great volume and scale of movement of animals and people, many of whom had travelled more than 100 miles to take part in the feasts. The project builds on research undertaken as part of the Feeding Stonehenge project (PI Mike Parker Pearson).
The Dietary Impact of The Norman Conquest
I am currently working with Ben Jervis (Cardiff), Lizzy Craig-Atkins (Sheffield) and Lucy Cramp (Bristol) on a project exploring the impact of diet using a variety of scientific techniques. It is funded by the Society of Antiquaries, The Royal Archaeological Institute, The Society for Medieval Archaeology and Cardiff University. The study focuses on Oxford and integrates human osteology, bulk collagen isotope analysis of humans and animals, incremental isotope analysis of human dentine, lipid residue analysis and secondary zooarchaeological and ceramic analysis.
Creating refined chronologies for the Bronze Age/Early Iron Age transition in southern Britain
This project employs a Bayesian approach to improve Bronze Age/Iron Age transitional chronology. Radiocarbon precision suffers from the 'Halstatt Plateau', one of the largest plateaus in the radiocarbon calibration curve in the entirety of the Holocene. Funded by ORADS, this is a joint project with Kate Waddington (Bangor), Niall Sharples (Cardiff) and Alex Bayliss (Historic England).
Navan Fort: Feasting and Connectivity
This project is funded by the Prehistoric Society's Bob Smith Award. It explores the origins of animals recovered from the supposed feasting deposits at Early Iron Age Navan Fort, the legendary ancient capital of Ulster using strontium and sulphur isotope analysis. It also explores how these animals were raised for the feasts through carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. The project is a collaboration between Finbar McCormick (Queen's Belfast) and Vaughan Grimes (Memorial Newfoundland).
The Early Romans of Colchester
This project was commissioned and funded by Colchester Archaeology Trust and is a collaboration with Adam Wightman (CAT). It employs strontium isotope analysis to explore the origins of three enigmatic individuals from Early Roman Colchester. One individuals is represented by a mandible that has suffered peri-mortem sharp force trauma and is one of very few human remains to have been recovered from the Boudiccan destruction layer in Colchester. Craniometric analysis of the other two individuals suggests Asian ancestry.
Feeding the Roman Army at Caerleon
This project investigates how the Roman army was provisioned at the legionary fortress of Caerleon. It employs strontium isotope analysis on animals from the site of Caerleon Priory Fields, to examine their origins and to explore the relationship between the fortress and the rural hinterland. This is a collaborative project with Peter Guest (Cardiff), Jamie Lewis (Bristol) and Vaughan Grimes (Memorial Newfoundland).
Iron Age Mortuary Treatment
This is a combined macroscopic and microscopic taphonomic investigation of human and animal deposits from the southern British Iron Age. Employing histological analysis and analysis of bone surface condition it aims to address the longstanding question of how humans and animals were treated in death and deposition in the Iron Age mortuary record. The project is a collaboration with Tom Booth (Natural History Museum).
Dama International
Multi-disciplinary research project investigating the biogeography and management of the European Fallow Deer over the last 6,000 year. I was responsible for isotope, zooarchaeological and biometric components of the project and am now on the steering committee. Funded by the AHRC (PI Naomi Sykes).
The Fallow Deer Project
West Amesbury Farm
This site was recently excavated by Historic England and represents one of the most important sites for the Middle Neolithic of the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site. I am undertaking isotope analysis of the fauna as part of the bioarchaeological team (with Fay Worley, Ruth Pelling and Pete Marshall, Historic England).
Llangefni Link Road
This major Early Medieval cemetery in Anglesey was recently excavated by Brython Archaeology. PhD student Iulia Rusu is undertaking the human osteological analysis and a programme of isotope analysis exploring diet and mobility will follow.
Llanmaes
I am project bioarchaeologist for the Bronze Age and Iron Age midden site at Llanmaes, Vale of Glamorgan. The site was excavated by the National Museum of Wales, under the directorship of Adam Gwilt and Mark Lodwick and has produced the largest faunal assemblage from an project in Wales (>73,501 bone fragments). I have undertaken full zooarchaeological analysis of the assemblage and programmes of carbon, nitrogen and strontium isotope analysis, Transmission Electron Microscopy and Cementum banding analysis.
Butrint
I am a zooarchaeologist on the major international research project at the multi-period site of Butrint, Albania.
The Butrint Foundation
Çatalhöyük
I am part of the faunal team for the major international excavations at Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
Çatalhöyük
Praisos
I am the project zooarchaeologist for the Archaic/Hellenistic settlement at Praisos, Crete
Zooarchaeological Projects
I am project zooarchaeologist for the sites of Whitchurch, Caerau, Leiston Abbey and Hartridge Farm.
Addysgu
Teaching profile
I am convenor for the following modules:
* Bioarchaeology - 20 credits (Year 2/3, HS2432)
* Forensic and Osteoarchaeology - 20 credits (Years 2/3, HS2423)
* Analysing Archaeology - 20 credits (Year 1, HS2125)
* Independent Study - 20 credits (Year 2, HS2433)
* Independent Science Project - 20 credits (Year 2, HS2434)
* Archaeology Dissertation - 40 credits (Year 3, HS2435)
* Archaeological Science Dissertation - 40 credits (Year 3, HS2436)
I contribute to the following modules:
* Death and Commemoration (MA, HST927)
* Postgraduate Skills in Archaeology and Conservation (MA/MSc, HST500)
* Heritage Communication (Year 2/3, HS2428)
* History of Archaeological Thought (Year 2, HS2350)
I have previously taught on various other UG and PG modules including Archaeological Science, Environment and Economy, Practical Skills and Human Origins.
Research Supervision
I currently supervise three PhD students: Iulia Rusu (with Jacqui Mulville), Leah Reynolds (with Peter Guest) and Tiffany Treadway (with Niall Sharples).
I would be interested to hear from potential postgraduate students looking to develop research projects in the following areas:
* Human-Animal relations in Later Prehistoric Britain
* The archaeology of the Bronze Age - Iron Age transition in Britain
* The archaeology of feasting
* Bone taphonomy
* Isotope analyses relating to mobility, diet and animal husbandry.
Bywgraffiad
Education and qualifications
PhD: January 2008-April 2011. Cardiff University, Colum Drive, Cardiff.
AHRC funded. Thesis title: Investigating the Potential of Holistic Taphonomic Analysis in Zooarchaeological Research. Viva completed with very minor corrections in July 2011
MA: October 2005-September 2006. University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton.
Osteoarchaeology (AHRC funded) – grade Distinction
BA: September 2001–June 2004. University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton.
BA (Hons) Archaeology – grade 1:1
Career overview
After finishing an AHRC-funded MA in Osteoarchaeology at the University of Southampton, I worked as a field archaeologist for Wessex Archaeology prior to taking up an HLF-funded IfA internship in Bioarchaeology at Cardiff University. After this one year post, I commenced an AHRC-funded PhD at Cardiff University, supervised by Dr Jacqui Mulville. I submitted the thesis, entitled Investigating the Potential of Holistic Taphonomic Analysis in Zooarchaeological Research in April 2011 and took up a temporary position as Lecturer in Archaeology at Bournemouth University. My teaching focussed on Zooarchaeology, Prehistory, Post-Excavation studies and Archaeological Skills.
I was next employed as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the Dama International Project at the University of Nottingham. This 3 year AHRC-funded project involved a multi-disciplinary investigation into the biogeography and management of the European fallow deer (Dama dama dama). I was responsible for zooarchaeological, biometric and isotope (δ15N, δ13C, δ34S, δ18O,87Sr/86Sr) analysis. After almost a year at Nottingham, I returned to Cardiff in January 2013 to embark on my own research project as a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow on a 3 year project 'Reconstructing the Feasts of Late Neolithic Britain'.
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
Selected Awards/Grants
* British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship (£234,512). 4.2% success rate in cohort.
* NERC Isotope Geosciences steering committee grant (£16,200 equivalent) to investigate the validity of porcine strontium isotope analysis (with J. Mulville/J. Evans)
* British Academy grant to host an inter-disciplinary event on population movement and cultural change (£7,180)
* Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit Grant for £4,275 (15 dates) for ‘Creating refined chronologies for the LBA/EIA transition in southern Britain’ project (with N. Sharples/K. Waddington)
* Joint Research Grant of £2,550 from the Royal Archaeological Institute, the Society of Antiquaries and the Society for Medieval Archaeology (with B. Jervis/L. Craig-Atkins).
* AHRC Student Led Initiative Grant of £2,000 for the inaugural Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum
* NERC Isotope Geosciences steering committee grant (£12,240 equivalent) to investigate mobility at late Neolithic feasting sites (with J. Evans)
* Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit Grant for £3,420 (12 dates) for ‘Refining fallow deer biogeography in Roman and Medieval Europe’ project (with N. Sykes).
* Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Placement (CUROP) grants (totalling £5,700) to employ undergraduate students as research assistants on various projects
* Prehistoric Society Bob Smith Prize awarded for isotope research on Navan Fort, the legendary ancient capital of Ulster.
* Joint Research Grant from the Prehistoric Society and the Cambrian Archaeological Association for Isotope analysis of faunal material from middens.
* Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral award (c. £50,000)
* Arts and Humanities Research Council MA award (c. £13,000)
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
2016- presennol: Darlithydd mewn Gwyddoniaeth Archeolegol, Prifysgol Caerdydd
2013-2016: Cymrawd Ôl-ddoethurol yr Academi Brydeinig, Prifysgol Caerdydd
2012: Cydymaith Ymchwil Ôl-Ddoethurol, Prosiect Rhyngwladol Dama, Prifysgol Nottingham,
2011-2012 Darlithydd mewn Zooarchaeology (dros dro), Prifysgol Bournemouth
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
Committees and Administrative Responsibilities
2016-present: Library representative
2016-present: Admissions team
2016-present: Health and Safety committee
2014-present: Equality and Diversity committee
2013-2016: Research committee
2013-2016: Board of the Cardiff University Research Staff Association
2013-2015: Seminar series organiser
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Goruchwylio Ymchwil
Byddai gennyf ddiddordeb mewn clywed gan ddarpar fyfyrwyr ôl-raddedig sydd am ddatblygu prosiectau ymchwil yn y meysydd canlynol:
* Dadansoddiad isotop sy'n ymwneud â symudedd, diet a hwsmonaeth anifeiliaid.
Cysylltiadau rhwng pobl ac anifeiliaid ym Mhrydain Gynhanesyddol Ddiweddarach
* Archaeoleg yr Oes Efydd - Pontio'r Oes Haearn ym Mhrydain
* Archaeoleg gwledda
* taphonomi esgyrn
Myfyrwyr PhD cyfredol:
Iulia Rusu: Cristioneiddio'r Magyar: Diet, iechyd a symudedd yn Hwngari o'r 10fed i'r 14eg ganrif (dadansoddiadau a ariannwyd gan NERC Isotope Geosciences Facility a BABAO, gyda Jacqui Mulville)
Katie Faillace: Biodistance in Britain: dadansoddiad morffometrig deintyddol o ymfudo yn Wessex o'r Oes Haearn i'r Oesoedd Canol Cynnar (wedi'i ariannu gan ysgoloriaeth Ursuala Henriques a dadansoddiadau wedi'u hariannu gan Gymdeithas Hanes Archaeolegol a Natur Gwlad yr Haf, gyda Jacqui Mulville)
Eirini Konstantinidi: Claddu Ogof Neolithig yng Ngorllewin Prydain (dadansoddiadau a ariannwyd gan y Gymdeithas Cynhanesyddol, Cymdeithas Ymchwil Ogofau Prydain a'r Cyfleuster Isotop Amgylcheddol Cenedlaethol, gyda Jacqui Mulville)
Ciara Butler: Osteobywgraffiadau a Chysylltedd yng Nghymru'r Oesoedd Canol Cynnar (wedi'i ariannu'n llawn gan Archaeoleg Brython, dadansoddiad a ariannwyd gan y Cyfleuster Isotop Amgylcheddol Cenedlaethol gydag Alan Lane)
Anton Axelsson: Iechyd a Stature yn Ne Prydain Ganoloesol (gyda Ben Jervis)
Jessica Peto: Asesu effeithiau bio-ddiwylliannol ar fioamrywiaeth Prydain, AD 0 – 1000 (a ariennir gan NERC, gyda Naomi Sykes [Caerwysg].