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Amy Bogaard serves as Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology and holds an External Professor position at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research investigates early farming systems across Europe and Western Asia through interdisciplinary methodologies bridging archaeology, ecology, and isotopic science.
Her core research examines the ecological and social dynamics of Neolithic/Bronze Age agriculture, specializing in archaeobotanical analysis of crop remains and associated weed flora, stable carbon/nitrogen isotope studies of ancient diets, and comparative surveys of traditional farming systems. This integrated approach reveals critical insights into prehistoric land management, storage systems, dietary practices, and the emergence of socioeconomic inequality, framed within sustainability contexts spanning millennia.
Key distinctions include:
- Fellow of the British Academy (2021)
- Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award for AGRICURB and Crop stable isotope projects (2015)
Professor Bogaard actively supervises doctoral research on late prehistoric agroecologies while leading major ERC-funded initiatives: EXPLO (land use change dynamics), AGRICURB (agricultural foundations of urbanism), and FEEDSAX (Anglo-Saxon food systems). Her supervision spans diverse geographies including Crete, Jordan, China, and Anatolia, with methodologies ranging from geometric morphometrics of wheat grains to epidemiological analyses of Neolithic health.
Her work operates through Oxford's School of Archaeology and international consortia, focusing on field projects across Mediterranean and Near Eastern landscapes to reconstruct ancient farming economies and their societal implications.
