Dominic Pollard

Dr. Dominic Pollard is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. His work bridges computational methods, environmental archaeology, and social theory to explore the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, particularly Crete. He combines intensive survey data, GIS modeling, and spatial statistics to analyze settlement patterning, mortuary practices, and agricultural systems.

Research Expertise: Archaeological Theory, Computational and Quantitative Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Landscape studies. His projects emphasize multi-scalar analysis of human-landscape interactions, focusing on how communities shape and are shaped by their environments.

Recent Publications: These include a 2023 Journal of Greek Archaeology synthesis of island-wide settlement changes (15th–6th centuries BCE), a 2023 Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology study using legacy survey data and GIS to model agricultural landscapes, and a 2021 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology quantitative analysis of Knossos cemeteries. All datasets and code are openly available via GitHub and Figshare, reflecting his commitment to reproducibility.

• Scientific Awards: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship