BA (Lancaster), MSc (London), PhD (Bradford)
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- keith.dobney@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- Department of Archaeology University of Aberdeen St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road Aberdeen AB24 3UF Scotland
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
Professor Dobney began his zooarchaeological career working as a Research Assistant to Don Brothwell at the Institute of Archaeology in London. Early research into human and animal palaeopathology and zooarchaeology led to a PhD in Archaeological Science at the University of Bradford, to freelance work in Britain and the Middle East, then to a research post funded by English Heritage at the Environmental Archaeology Unit, University of York. From the EAU in York, Keith moved to the Archaeology Department at Durham University where he held two consecutive Wellcome Trust Bioarchaeology Research Fellowships from 2000-2008. He became a Reader in the Archaeology Department at Durham prior to being appointed in Aberdeen in 2009.
For the last 25 years, Keith has been actively involved in bioarchaeological research in Britain, the Middle East, Central Asia and Central America, and since 2000, has developed international collaborative research in East Asia and Oceania. With the main material focus of his work being the study of animal and human remains, Keith's research incorporates a broad temporal and geographic spread, and involves the use of traditional and novel techniques and approaches.
Keith has organised several major international conferences and workshops, has been invited to give research seminars and presentations at academic and research institutions across the world and has held several visiting research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and the Australian National University in Canberra. He is currently one of two project leaders of a CNRS funded Projet de Groupement De Recherche Européen (GDRE) entitled - BIOARCH- Bioarchaeological Investigations of the Interactions between Holocene Human Societies and their Environments - and the Director of a recently funded Co-Reach Chinese-European research grouping (EUCH-BIOARCH).
- Research
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Research Overview
Principal research themes include the origins of agriculture, the domestication of animals, human and animal dispersal, diet and health, palaeopathology and palaeoeconomics.
Funding and Grants
2000
£186,864
Wellcome Trust – The bioarchaeology of pig domestication and husbandry: its role in the biological, economic and social development of complex human society.
2001
$1,585
Appointment as a Smithsonian Institution Short-term Visitor at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
2002
£2,450
Royal Society and Armenian Academy of Science. Visiting Fellowship to Durham for Dr Ninna Manaseryan
2003
£271,793
Wellcome Trust - Travelling companions and unwelcome guests: an integrated zooarchaeological and biomolecular approach to human dispersal and exchange networks in the Holocene.
2005
$1,727
Appointment as a Smithsonian Institution Short-term Visitor at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.
2005
£22,024
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship for Professor Jing Yuan, Institute of Archaeology, CASS, Beijing.
2005
£157,442
AHRC - The prehistoric origins of Orcadian cultural exchange networks: biomolecular and morphometric studies of Orkney voles (co P.I.'s - Profs Jeremy Searle and Paul O'Higgins, University of York).
2006
£5,969
English Heritage – Completion of monograph entitled: Farmers, Monks and Aristocrats.
2006
£1,500
Daiwa Foundation - Morphometric variation and dental enamel defects in the teeth of ancient island populations of Japanese wild boar (Sus scrofa) as a proxy for studying human interaction in the Jomon period.
2006
£380,249
AHRC - co PI - The origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe – a new database approach (P.I. Prof. Stephen Shennan, Institute of Archaeology UCL.
2006
£125,000
P.I. for RCUK Fellowship - Ancient DNA and human dispersal – Research Councils
2007
£217,341
Leverhulme Trust – Pigs, people and the Neolithisation of Europe – returned after award of NERC grant below.
2007
£460,009
NERC - Pigs, people and the Neolithisation of Europe – co i's Dr Greger Larson, Dr Una Strand-Vidardottir, Prof. Rus Hoelzel
2007
£48,717
NERC – Tied studentship linked with funded project - Pigs, people and the neolithisation of Europe
2008
£60,896
Leverhulme Trust - PhD studentship (and associated indirect costs) to work on Ancient DNA
2009
2010
€150,685
£806,000
Co-Reach (with Institute of Archaeology, Beijing, Natural History Museum Paris & Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) – European-Chinese Bioarchaeology Collaboration (EUCH-BIOARCH) – Contributing to a Broader Agenda.
NERC - Reconsidering Austronesian Homeland and Dispersal Models using Genetic and Morphological Signatures of Domestic Animals - joint with Durham University - co-i's Dr Greger, Larson, Dr Thomas Cucchi and Dr Una Strand-Vidarsdottir.
- Publications
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The long and winding road: identifying pig domestication through molar size and shape
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 735-743Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.005
Chalcolithic pig remains from Çamlibel Tarlasi, Central Anatolia.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsSpecies distribution modelling of ancient cattle from early Neolithic sites in SW Asia and Europe
The Holocene, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 997-1010Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683612437871
Dental enamel hypoplasia as indicators of seasonal environmental and physiological impacts in modern sheep populations: a model for interpreting the zooarchaeological record
Journal of Zoology, vol. 287, no. 4, pp. 259-268Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00912.x
Dog domestication revisited: A new genetic, archeological, and biogeographic perspective
PNAS, vol. 109, no. 23, pp. 8878-8883Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203005109
Enamel hypoplasia in molars of sheep and goats and its relationship to the pattern of tooth crown growth
Journal of Anatomy, vol. 220, no. 5, pp. 484-495Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2012.01482.x
Distinguishing wild boar and domestic pigs in prehistory: a review of approaches and recent results
Journal of World PreHistory, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-44Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-012-9055-0
Meta-analysis of zooarchaeological data from SW Asia and SE Europe provides insight into the origins and spread of animal husbandry
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 538-545Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.008
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Early Neolithic pig domestication at Jiahu, Henan Province, China: clues from molar shape analyses using geometric morphometric approaches
Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 11-22Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.07.024
The power of paradigms: examining the evidential basis for early to mid-Holocene pigs and pottery in Melanesia
Journal of Pacific Archaeology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1-25Contributions to Journals: Articles