Bioarchaeology

Bioarchaeology at Aberdeen brings together expertise on human and animal palaeoecology, environmental archaeology and human-envionmental interactions in the past. Researchers in the Department of Archaeology and associated disciplines employ a range of technical and methodological approaches, with strengths in the study of:

• mammal
• bird and fish remains
• insects
• soils
• plant remains and microfossils
• proteins and biominerals (isotope analysis)
• DNA

Our research spans from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Neolithic, protohistoric and historic periods, and also includes the experimental study of modern materials.

Onsite facilities within St. Mary's Building include:

• a palynology laboratory
• bioarchaeology laboratory with faunal reference collection
• microsampling equipment
• an archaeological chemistry and stable isotope preparation laboratory

• Professor Keith Dobney
• Dr Kate Britton
• Dr Thomas Cucchi
• Dr Allowen Evin
• Dr Karen Milek
• Professor Kevin Edwards
• Dr Dmitri Mauquoy
• Dr Tim Mighall
• Dr Ed Schofield
• Julie Daujat
• Véronique Forbes
• Ardern Hulme-Beaman
• Ellen Mcmanus
• Dawn Mooney

• Isotope Analysis at St. Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen: Diet, Health and Mobility in a Medieval Maritime Society
• Animal Husbandry in the Intertidal Zone: A Stable Isotope Approach to Changing Subsistence Strategies in the Belgian Coastal Plain
• Dietary Change and Maritime Adaptations in Prehistoric North-West Alaska
• Palaeobiogeography and Palaeoecology of late Pleistocene Herbivores of Northern Europe
• Palaeoenvironmental and Palaeoclimatic Reconstruction at the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Site of Neumark-Nord, Germany