Research Themes: Environmental and landscape archaeology, lithic technology, geographical information systems and science, spatial and analytical statistics. Geographic Focus: Mediterranean and Great Lakes.
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In 2010 I began a new SSHRC-supported interdisciplinary project that seeks to develop better understanding of socio-ecology in the Trent Severn waterway during the early through mid-Holocene. Coupled with my long-term interest in landscape and environmental archaeology, this project is using my excavation of a set of Archaic through Middle Woodland sites for a new series of chronological, bioarchaeological, and technological studies that will build on earlier work to develop and test a range of different explanatory models concerning social forager habitat choice and niche construction, seasonal mobility, territorial strategies, and exchange systems.
The Antikythera Survey Project (ASP) is a SSHRC-sponsored phased, interdisciplinary program of fieldwork, artifact study and laboratory analysis that addresses the long-term history and human ecology of the tiny Greek island of Antikythera. It is co-directed by James Conolly and Andrew Bevan (UCL).
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A number of colleagues and I are carrying out the largest and most systematic survey of published/archived archaeological animal bone data ever undertaken in order to re-examine the evidence for the origins of stock-keeping in the Near East and its spread into Europe during the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods, c.12,000 to 6,000 years ago. The basis for our study is a comprehensive database of selected animal bone data from relevant sites.
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